In fact, some of the £48m per day contribution to the EU could be channelled into promoting British businesses outside the EU. We really don't need to fear life beyond the EU; two thirds of the world aren't members, and as far as I know the EU economies of member states are in as parlous a state of affairs as any other - my point being that membership of the EU doesn't mean economic prosperity, as Greece, Portugal, Spain and even dear old Blighty will attest to.
Japan, supposedly the model global economy of the past thirty years, is in an even worse state than Greece, which just goes to show (to me, anyway) that what matters is sound economic business practices domestically rather than membership of some idealistic and arbitrary international club that costs so much and delivers so little.
The jibes about those who do not believe the EU to be the be all and end all as being 'Little Englanders' is an example of a failed argument. When all else has come to naught, insults. One could retort that pro-EU advocates might be traitors who should be locked up in the Tower, but then we're told that our English heritage is jingoistic and racist, so I won't go down that road.
