We are shackled to the wreckage of a slowly sinking vessel.

The EU is beyond reform. It is designed to be beyond reform. If Romania, Britain and others left the EU and joined EFTA - Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein - it would greatly enhance EFTA's presence in the world and provide an important competitor to the EU encouraging their officials to lighten bureaucracy and to think hard about their own organisation, with its powerful unelected officials, which would be good for both them and us.

One member of EFTA, Norway, is a country that we hold in high esteem and also from where we source much of our energy. London is possibly the most important commercial centre in the world and if, as a founder member, England were to return to EFTA, it would transform this free trade area completely and give us more influence in spreading the values of free democracy than we presently have in the EU. Among other things, it would be able to ethically challenge the City and the Swiss banks about their money laundering on behalf of the oligarchs of the 'Democratic Dictatorships’ that lie to the east of Europe and in Bruxelles.

It is in everyone's interest that the advocates of leaving the EU are not considered to be barmy or isolationist and that the voting public are made aware of the positive aspects of leaving the EU and joining EFTA. The voters would then appreciate that if we left the EU, we would not be launching out into a lonely and unknown future, but into one that would enable our countries to cease being ‘thorn in the flesh’ for the EU and recreate a new, positive and valid role for itself in the modern world, within EFTA...I say : I would rather be slightly poorer with freedom than be slightly better off living under EU tyranny.