The OP dangled the carrot - I'm surprised that anybody bit.

Either in or out the UK will not "leave" Europe, we will still trade with it, we are one of their best customers FFS. Akenaton is quite right in what he says, the European Parliament GUEST Dave is a gutless, pointless talking shop, the only occasion when it needed to act was when the entire EU Commission was shown to be corrupt, the EU Parliament flunked it and did nothing. EU Commissioners (who are appointed and not elected) rule the roost and then there is the Council of Ministers who can exercise a power of veto.

When and if the referendum on the UK's membership comes round I will vote for leaving it, prior to 1973 when the UK joined the Common Market as it then was, we traded both with Europe and the rest of the world quite happily - we can do so again. the EU due much to its idiotic fixation with dogma has shackled itself to the Euro and has been stagnant now for over a decade and shows no sign of improvement - The EU faces serious problems that it ideologically refuses to address - if the horse you are riding is heading for a jump you know it cannot take then your best course of action is to jump off.