Stephen Fry’s video fights for the ‘mythical EU dragon’ against Brexit fearmongers Fry ends the video with a call to arms for the truth

Comedian Stephen Fry has created a YouTube video pleading for facts to beat fear in a battle against Brexit.

The video collates the ways that Brexit campaigners used hate speech to enhance anti-EU feelings, ridiculed experts and ignored the contributions of immigrants into the UK.

Fry, who introduced the nation to titwheel in a tweet during the Brexit TV debate, is pro-European.

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His video, Brexit: Facts vs Fear, he says, is the story of a “mythical EU dragon was conjured up and the striking truth behind it”.

Ignoring experts and immigrants

It uses columnist Katie Hopkins talking about a “plague of feral humans” alongside Brexit campaign map which showed Iran and Syria on a map of countries applying to join the EU (though it did not say Iran and Syria were actually applying to join)

Fry also criticises the tendency to ignore experts, most notably Michael Gove but also Jacob Rees-Mogg, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage.

One example Fry uses is Johnson campaigning about the impact on school places, while ignoring statistics that showed European migrants used fewer public services and paid a net contribution of £20 billion between 2000 and 2011.

Fry ends the video with a call to arms for truth.

He said: “The truth is beginning to outshine the mythical dragon… In a final vote, facts could stats to overcome fears.”