economy, the best performing in Western Europe, and there is an expectation that with Germany’s
ageing population we will soon climb the global league tables even further.
We are an amazing island nation filled with inventiveness and creativity – look at how we dazzled the
world during the London 2012 Olympics. We also have superb natural advantages: the world’s business
language is English, our contract law is widely recognised as gold standard, we have one of the least
corrupt judicial systems in the world, we benefit hugely from living between the time zones of North
America and Asia and, of course, we have longstanding links to the near 2.5 billion people that make up
the Commonwealth.
The European superstate, on the other hand, looms ever larger on the horizon and the question of ‘stay
as we are’ or ‘Leave’ is actually one of ‘in even deeper’ or ‘Leave’. It costs billions to belong to a club that
interferes in our affairs and has created needless divisions, one that will ultimately lead to our removal
from the map. If a European superstate is achieved, the resentment and anger will flow through the
centuries to come, strengthening resistance movements right across the continent. Don’t believe
anyone who undersells the UK by arguing that we cannot successfully go it alone.
12. Acknowledge the global
economy
Far away from being ‘little
Englanders’, those in the Leave
campaign recognise that the world
is a big, global marketplace, filled
with new and exciting
opportunities. We need to look to
the emerging economies of China,
Brazil, India, and
the Commonwealth while
remembering that the EU has
shown itself to be fundamentally
ill-equipped for a truly global economy. The EU is, as Michael Gove put it, “an analogue union in a digital
world.”
A new poll for American news channel CNBC shows that a