This latest tack, of demonisation of the EU on the grounds of there being a conspiracy to create an empire, etc. (a strained variation on the theme that we'll get "ever closer union"), has the ring of desperation about it. Even without the UK in the EU, the proposition is completely wacky. And the irony is, following their logic, which I don't, is that the best way to avoid what they're scared of is for the UK to stay in the EU. In the same way, the best way to avoid there being a European army is for the UK to stay in the EU. There's no doubt that the UK leaving the EU will rock Europe. Which is precisely what the world doesn't need right now. As things stand, the EU is by far the safest place on earth for democracy on anything like a global scale. India is chaotic and corrupt. China has a dictator for life and doesn't give a flying shite about human rights. I've just covered half of the world's population. The US as a democracy is dying on its feet. Don't get me started on the Middle East or Brazil. I can't understand people who want to see the demise of the EU. It would be the end of democracy on this planet. There's literally nowhere else. If we stay we can fight all the EU's myriad absurdities from within. Outside, they will do things that we don't want and which will be to our detriment and on which we will have no say. Yet we'll still be doing half our trade with them. Leaving the EU at this juncture would be an incredibly stupid mistake. Only the ideological blind would now support that.