Didn't mean to use the expression "tawdry bunch" twice in one post. Combination of my iPhone, the tiny box for typing in and this lurgy I seem to have collected. If we leave, we can either trade within the single market and abide by its rules, which we'll no longer have any say about, or we can go it alone, losing all the advantages of being members of the single market and still have no say about the rules, and having burned lots of bridges. I've yet to see a Eurosceptic patiently explain how this would be a massive advantage to us.