Everyone has to make their own minds up re staying or leaving the UK, normally people vote for their own interests but on this occassion I will be voting for what I perceive as my children's best interests.
A lot of rubbish is being put out by all sides IMO, particularly the stay in bridgade, such as no co-operation on security, no guarantee of trade continuing etc.
Europe would wish to continue trading with us, us with them, no reason we cannot co-operate on security issues etc, we do with many other countries already, basically a way would be found.
I do not know if we would be better off financially, personally I think we would be, after a few years adjustment, but far more importantly we would regain some control of our country, to run it more in our interests than others.
I would like a country where my kids can expect to be able to buy a house, not have to live at home forever, reducing immigration would help reduce the huge demand on housing.
I would like a country where people integrate, at present we help to create and condone immigrant ghettos.
I would like a country with sensible wages, at present we pay as a nation to keep salaries artificially low, and flood the country with huge amounts of cheap labour that is not required.
Most importantly I would like a country that had faith in itself to stand up and make it's own way in the world, we managed it for thousands of years and can easily do so again, how small have we become as a nation to believe we need europe to trade with the world?
Most importantly and rarely mentioned as of yet, is the different idea of what europe is to different nations. The UK has long be sold the idea it is for trade, the rest of europe WANT political union and IT WILL happen in the future.
So really the referendum is whether we want to be european, or as now the UK trading with the europeans.
"This huge Commission building in Brussels, in the shape of a cross, is absolutely un-British. I felt as if I were going as a slave to Rome; the whole relationship was wrong. Here was I, an elected man who could be removed, doing a job, and here were these people with more power than I had and no accountability to anybody...My visit confirmed in a practical way all my suspicions that this would be the decapitation of British democracy without any countervailing advantage, and the British people, quite rightly, wouldn't accept it. There is no real benefit for Britain." .......Tony Benn
