The Leave campaign is playing the race card and it is not pleasant.
Errrr, and what race card would that be exactly
Farrage's poster was completely unacceptable, I'm glad you agree.
Playing on fears of mass immigration then, but claiming that we are going to be overrun by unskilled migrants (with particular emphasis on countries like Turkey) who only want to come here to live on benefits is a racist argument.
No, that is a concern of immigration. Concern about immigration != racism.
The emphasis on Turkey is that (a) Cameron (for Remain) told the electorate not to worry their pretty heads about it and (b) while they concurrently suggested secretly that actually it might be alright to "send a nice message" to Turkey in the form of a degree of relaxation to the immigration from that country prior to acceptance to the EU.
Claims based around Brits pushed out of houses, schools, the NHS etc are all fundamentally playing to a racist sympathy.
Even the Remain camp are stating that house prices will ease as a result of a Brexit. To many people that would be welcome, certainly where I live, where you need to be earning £150k+ just to buy a £500,000 studio apartment. There is nothing racist in that.
There is nothing racist in stating that schools are under pressure from children where English is not their first language.
There is nothing racist in stating that the NHS is under pressure from health tourism because the NHS is so freely available to all.
All of those three things you mention are only perceived to be racist because individuals choose to manipulate it to be so for their own agenda. It is not racist to point out that these things happen.
What are we to do? Just not mention anything at all in case someone from the PC brigade might call you a racist?
Again, please consider that branding everything you don't like as simply racist isn't just cheap, it really dilutes the real racist issues that exist in society.
Not to mention Boris's comments re Obama as a method of undermining his message.
The Boris's Obama quote was just silly and cringeworthy, he should've know better in his position.
To me EU immigration isn't even in my decision. Fundamentally I am fine with the single market and the freedom of movement (at least I
was when the Union was comprised of reasonably compatible states in terms of GDP). What I am not fine about is the expansion of the EU into incompatible economies, increased fiscal parity, completely open borders, and combined defence. All of those things are already happening and they are stated aims of the EU as a whole, and the EU is not going to change without a bombshell. You either accept that the EU will continue that steamroller that you have no way of stopping, or you get out, and make that bombshell.