The cynical lie that leaving the EU would destroy Britain
Simon Heffer
Daily Mail
October 31, 2011
A tumultuous week for the European Union, and our relations with it, included the publication on Monday of a remarkable opinion poll.
It showed a majority of the British respondents in favour of leaving the EU: 49 per cent, against 40 per cent who wished to stay in.
How times have changed. When the same polling organisation, ICM, asked that question ten years ago, only 19 per cent wanted to go, while 68 per cent wanted to stay.
The intervening decade has forcibly acquainted the British public with many of the unpleasant realities of rule from Brussels. It has reminded people that a developed, supposedly sovereign democracy like Britain ought to be able to make its own decisions about matters of fundamental importance.
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