The UK is just one day away, as I type, from voting in a Referendum that'll decide its future, either within the EU, or outside it. We have our one opportunity to vote to exit from the EU, become our own nation once more ... to shake off all of Brussels' lawmaking and other edicts. To be free to choose our own trading opportunities with the rest of the world.
For that matter .. a 'Greece' - type financial disaster visited upon the EU in future either by Greece again, or a larger yet weak economy (such as from Portugal or Spain) could drag the UK down along with the collapse of the EU as a whole. We decide, if we do, to opt out of EU membership, and we've a good chance of surviving it with minimal financial damage.
Freedom, or eventual loss of freedom, subsumed within a far larger Federal structure ? Control of immigration, or to have the EU insist we keep our borders porous ? These are issues which we must now decide upon.
I want 'out', and as soon as possible. I believe in my nation. I believe we should rediscover pride in ourselves and work towards a bright future, one we make OURSELVES.
But if the polls are to be believed, a great many Brits disagree. The vote is on a knife-edge - it could go either way tomorrow (23rd June).
Thoughts, anyone .. ?