Sir Howard Elston, our Europe editor, answers all your questions over the EU referendum debate.
Yeah, yeah, yeah (writes Sir Howard), the neverendum (I stole that). But for you people too stupid to see the forest through the trees, here is a summary of the big burning questions and how the Remain and Leave lobbies see things: (yeah, I stole that from a magazine).
What the Leave side warns if we stay in the EU:
- The economy will crash
- Immigration will explode leaving hundreds of thousands of foreigners scrounging off our hard pressed benefit system
- Our hospitals will be destroyed
- Terrorism will reign supreme
- England will lose the World Cup (again)
- Global warming will kill us
- We will have a better relationship with the US, our special friend
EU experts
What the Remain side warns if we leave the EU:
- The economy will crash
- Immigration will explode leaving hundreds of thousands of foreigners scrounging off our hard pressed benefit system
- Our hospitals will be destroyed
- Terrorism will reign supreme
- England will lose the World Cup (again)
- Global warming will kill us
- We will have a better relation with the US, our special friend
Phil from Birmingham, our EU specialist, comments: ” Hey, they’re all the same. I don’t understand. Is this a sick joke or something? As we approach the most important vote on this sceptred isle since 1689 when the Bill of Rights was passed, we are in danger of…” (continued on a private website).