Brexit

[Muddy Retriever]

I will be voting Leave because:

- It will restore democracy and self determination to Britain. We elect MP's and therefore Governments who are accountable to us. At present more and more laws are being made by people who have no accountability to us, in fact no accountability to anyone. How do you get rid of an EU Commissioner?

Some people are in favour of remaining in the EU because they see it as a bulwark against Tory Governments. But the EU is not progressive. Look at the way it has treated Greece and other southern European countries to see that. Not to mention the Common Agricultural Policy that discriminates against third world farmers. Plus every five years we can remove Governments we don't like. In the words of Tony Benn, "I'd rather have a bad parliament than a good king".

- The UK will prosper economically outside the EU, being able to make it's own trade deals with the rest of the world. Britain is historically an outward looking maritime power with links around the world. There has never been a better opportunity to exploit those links.

Emma Thompson in an example of how some of the metropolitan elite view their own country described Britain as a "tiny little cloud-bolted, rainy corner of sort-of Europe, a cake-filled misery-laden grey old island”, And yet we have the fifth biggest economy in the world, are the fourth largest military power, are arguably ranked number one in terms of "soft" power and have a seat on the UN Security Council. We're not that small, we might just do alright.