The thing that’s making my blood boil in this referendum is that the Government – and by that I mean the Remain camp – is treating us like fools.
Every day they spew out some new doomsday scenario – war, famine, pestilence, economic carnage, job losses – none of which was on the horizon three months ago when Cameron insisted we would do perfectly well outside the EU .
But now, suddenly, they’re all there waiting to gobble us up on June 23 if we vote Leave.
They insult our intelligence with their dodgy stats and their guesstimate figures and tell us Leave would be a catastrophic leap in the dark, which would mean total isolation from the rest of the world instead of a safe place in the EU.
But there IS no safe place in the EU for us now.
Because even if we vote Stay we’ll be shafted by EU bosses to warn other countries who might dare to want their independence back that they can’t have it.
I can’t be the only one sick of hearing politicians with no vision or imagination whining: “What’s the alternative to being in the EU?”
The freakin’ alternative is clearly NOT being in the EU.
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The other question Remainers keep asking is: “What country which isn’t in the EU do we want to emulate in trade deals?
Another stupid question, because we don’t want any other country’s trade deal.
We’re Great Britain, for God’s sake, the fifth biggest economy in the world and we want – and will get – our own deal.
But the Remainers don’t see that.
They see Britain as some lame, limp little country that can’t survive without the prop of the EU, when the reality is it’s the EU that’s the lame duck.
It’s the EU – one of the worst performing economic regions in the world – that’s the busted flush.
So forget the risks of leaving the EU, what should be keeping you awake at night is the risk of staying in.
That, and the 333,000 people who came here last year through borders over which we have no control.
As for the IMF, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Treasury telling us we’ll be on the rubbish heap if we leave – why would they be right this time when their forecasts in the past have been hopelessly and dangerously wrong?
These are the people who said we HAD to join the Euro, who didn’t see the 2008 crash coming and who said Britain’s austerity measures would send the country down the pan when the opposite happened.
Yes, there’s a risk if we vote Leave but the bigger risk is staying. At least outside the EU we’d be masters of our own destiny.
We could govern ourselves and decide what our country needs (not what a bunch of unelected bureaucrats in Brussels says it needs).
We’d be able to choose the best and the brightest to come here instead of being forced to accept hundreds of thousands of unskilled people who are putting an intolerable strain on our public services.
Because while migration’s been good for Britain there now has to be a limit on numbers coming in.
But the biggest mistake the Remain camp has made is that it’s treated the electorate like incompetents unable to understand the complexities of proper In and Out arguments.
Which is why they frighten us instead.
So, the thing undecideds need to ask themselves now is that if we weren’t already in the EU, would they choose to join?
Would they choose to belong to a group of countries, many of which are crippled by sky-high unemployment and are on the brink of bankruptcy?
This referendum HAS to be the People’s Choice. It must be about what farmers, fishermen, factory workers, shop assistants and public sector workers want.
It can’t be about politicians telling us what to do, believing they know what’s best for us.
This has to be about what’s best for ordinary people – NOT what’s best for banks, big business and Cameron and Osborne’s career.