Yes but I don't like the crowd of ultra conservatives who are running the leave campaign and who will take control if we did leave.
The people who will run the country after we leave would be the same ones who have always run it: the people you vote for. It's not a left-right issue, much as the labour party want to make it one.
if we leave the scots will leave the UK.
You don't know this. You have very little guarantee that the EU will accept the Scots. Last time around I seem to recall them saying that they would not accept Scotland. This was especially after England stated that they would not bail out the Scots from their debts. In other words, England would not let Scotland use our currency. So if the Scots created their own currency, they would be forced to bear their share of current debt of the UK government. It would make their own currency worth much less. That's the last thing they want to do. It will cost them a small fortune. They would all be about 30 - 40% poorer.
I would like to get the chance to vote in June. I will if I am still alive to do so. My view:
I would be happy being a full member of the EU, on all the same terms as the other members, including having the Euro as currency, even though it would mean a significant change of life-style and culture. I would be able to go to Europe and be proud of being a fully paid-up EU member. I would support the overall EU ethos of closer union and we would have a super-state that would rival America and Russia.
But it's not going to be like that, is it? Britain is too different to the rest of Europe; our economies have never been in synch. Our cultures are so very different and there is still a great sense of distrust of the Europeans by the British.
That's why I want and will vote to leave. Because in that case, I can still go to Europe and be proud to be British and everyone will respect me for that. It would be no different to when an American or Chinese person visits Europe. You respect them for who they are. And perhaps even more so for having finally done the decent thing and let the Europeans go their own way without all the time holding them up and throwing in barbs.
But in the present way of arrangements, all that is happening is that we are neither in nor out, we are the black sheep of the family. We get laughed at and treated with contempt. We always want special terms to apply to us, we always want to wear different clothes. I do not want this anymore. We are too different. We should just recognise that. It's got nothing to do with economics. Nor is it about party politics. It's about dignity.
