I say Britain should vote to leave. The EU is doomed by its internal antagonisms regardless of how Britain votes. Its collapse will cause hardships ... Britain leaving will cause hardships in Britain as well as in Germany, etc. (Its existence causes hardships too.) And the nationalism of Boris Johnson and other leading pro-Brexit campaigners is nothing if not reactionary. But ultimately the EU is an imperialist alliance which strengthens the hand of finance capital against the workers by preparing the way for a Fourth German Reich. Its disintegration will help strengthen the workers by isolating the capitalist powers of Europe so they can be reckoned with one by one.
Norway and Switzerland have flourishing economies outside the EU, those inside are suffering this miserable ridiculous austerity, Switzerland sells five times more to the EU than we do, the EU simply does not buy from Britain, they sell a lot to us but they will not buy, and yet it ( Swedish Commissioner) makes our Trade deals else where - we cannot even Trade - after 1000 years we are suddenly incapable of doing our own trade deals! And 40ish years takes in three generations, two of whom have the vote and know nothing else than occupation - We shall not suffer hardship outside the EU, the EU gives us nothing, it just takes - Plus 38-40% of the whole of the Govs budget goes into admin for the EU - the official Brexit never mention the EU quangos and 120,000 regulations having to be written into UK law -( of which only 20,000 have actually been written up so we do not even know what the law is) The EU Assemblies and so on -
Another and very good reason we should never have joined, apart from it being treasonous, are the different legal systems we go by - the British still, even now, do not understand the EU in because it is so foreign to us, the structure is that of the USSR and the system is jus civil - as is the constitution/Lisbon Treaty.
We shall flourish outside the EU - all we have to fear is Boris Johnson.
