EU - in or out?

We should, I think, have a referendum as the EU as it is now is far removed from the Common Market of years ago.
At the moment I would vote to leave the EU.

It is not name calling.

It's a way of describing a certain section of the population who are dyed in the wool, old fashioned, narrow minded, non-thinking, Daily Mail reading, ...well... little Englanders!

Yes. Exactly Grumppa - "Little Englanders".

We must stay in. It would be disastrous for trading if we came out. And we would probably lose a large part of our finance industry if the traders moved elsewhere.

I think DC is doing well in trying to tweak the rules a bit.

I really hope there is no referendum. Too many narrow minded people could vote to come out without any really good reason.

Why 'Little Englanders'? I do dislike that phrase, what about those of us who live in the rest of the UK (Scotland, of course, may have gone its own way by then). Don't we have any say or thoughts on the subject? And why should 'Little Englander' be used as a derogatory term, as if being English and proud of that is something of which to be ashamed?

Trade agreements are good, United States of Europe is another matter altogether. I still haven't worked out how I would vote, need to go into it a lot more like Mishap, but name-calling is not going to add anything to the debate.

You wouldn't believe it but one of the areas I covered whilst reading for my degree was the Common Market (as it was then named) I can hardly remember a thing about it but do remember finding out all sorts of stuff - something like that would be useful if we are going into a referendum.

We need objective facts in order to make up our minds because what is the point of a referendum if we don't know what we are voting for.

Out, out, out. It is truly ludicrous to suggest that we would lose any trade if we were OUT!! Europe wants our trade. They trade with many other countries that are not in the EU. They would continue to trade as before. The amount of money that we pay in is out of all proportion to any benefits that we get out. The ridiculous rules and regulations that EU jobsworths churn out (which by the way, most of our continental cousins ha! ignore) have ruined many a business in the uk.
To think of the wars we have fought and the men that have died to preserve our freedom......now we are simply handing it over on a plate. And the sad thing is that the greater percentage of the population don't know and don't care.

In, in, in. I didn't spend years putting the case for my industry to our competitors in Europe and to the Europen Commission for my efforts to be thrown away by Little Englanders.

Out out out. I've never wanted to belong to it. I even go as far as not wanting the channel tunnel.
And as for the old chestnut about loosing trade, there's a whole world out there wanting our quality products.