If we stay in the EU...

We'll have to give up the pound. As night follows day.

We'll be governed not by the people we elect to represent us, but by people who've never heard of the city, town or village where you live, much less understand your issues. And who we can't get rid of.

We'll be paying for the corruption and inefficiencies of other countries while being unable to look after people and services here at home.

As the 5th largest economy on earth we have massive international influence - especially as one of the two financial powerhouses in the world (London & New York). As part of the EU we will have an 8% (and shrinking) influence on the world's only shrinking trading bloc.

Unable to make our own trade deals with the rest of the world without going through the EU's creaking, red-tape riddled, baggage-laden foreign policy which is, incidentally, actively stopping Africa from trading its way into the first world.

And we'll be paying £28 million a day (net) for this 'privalege'.

'But jobs will be lost if we leave the EU'. Utter bollocks. We are the EU's biggest customer, globally. There's a £46 billion trade deficit in their favour. They simply cannot afford to impose any trade tariffs on us if we leave. Because we'd respond in kind and then their current recession would be like a walk in the park.

The biggest issue is not even about the UK. If we leave the EU fails. And quite quickly. Look at the chaos that has been caused by net recipient Greece's current travails. If the 2nd biggest contributor (the UK) were to leave it would be terminal.

And then southern Europe would be able to re-establish its competitiveness by devaluing currencies and re-balancing economies and giving hope to its people. More than 50% of young people in Spain, Italy and Greece are currently unemployed as a direct result of EU policies.

The EU is currently the world's only shrinking trading bloc. Staying in is like buying in to failure.

Of course you might see this as a good thing. It's palpably not good for the UK or for the vast majority of people in Europe. It is actually creating more tension, extremism and unrest in southern Europe - the opposite of what the EU was established to achieve.

But you think it's a good thing for us to stay in the EU? For us to lose everything our people fought and died for in two world wars in the recent past?

I have to ask. Why?

Thanks for reading.