I really don't know. I am in favour of the Common Market, and the idea of Europe all working together rather than fighting one another (although some claim that NATO has played the bigger part in that).

However the EU as an institution doesn't work, and as it gets bigger it becomes even more bureaucratic and unwieldy. It takes ages to make decisions and even when it recognises it has made a mistake it cannot easily undo it (as the VATMOSS muddle shows). It appears to be ruled by an unelected and unaccountable elite.

The euro was never going to work - it was brought in for political rather than economic reasons, but without centralised controls sooner or later it was bound to hit problems. However does anyone anywhere really want "ever closer union", apart from the politicians and bureaucrats who want to extend their power? Certainly not without a radical reform of how it is electorally accountable to the people of Europe.

The problem with the referendum is that unless the government is able to successfully renegotiate our relationship with the EU we may be asked to vote for a pig in a poke.