Spread the word! All you need to know for the EU referendum!

1) Higher energy prices in the EU..
2) Hurt steel industry in the EU & by our current europhilic government..
3) Costly and immoral EU membership fee of ~£24 million a day (accounting for EU rebate and EU budget spent on UK.) It is immoral because EU budget spent on UK comes with an EU label; propaganda, despite the excess of £24 million a day..
4) Higher food prices in the UK and the stalling of development in LEDCs..
5) The EU will continue to to trade with the UK; the UK is the biggest export market for goods (though not services) for the rest of the EU.

6) The EU is the only shrinking trading bloc in the world (though I admit I don't understand the full implications of this, so dispute away.)(I don't understand the intricacies of the fisheries argument and the Common Fisheries Policy, so I haven't included it on this list.)

1) MEPs cannot initiate, repeal or amend legislation.

2) It is illegal for European Commissioners to work in the interest of a member state, so each member state doesn't have a representative in the European Commission, which is the body that can initiate legislation.

3) The EU has a system of degressive proportionality, which leads the UK to having only 9.72% of the voting power, despite the UK constituting 12.74% of the EU population.

This statement is a bit hyperbolic, but "back to the days of rotten boroughs!" Note: I haven't accounted for the UK population who aren't British citizens, so dispute away.

4) Invalid counter-arguments

I am leaning towards leave but still ready to fall on either side, as the thing about the democracy argument is it's not like our own system is democratic. Less than 25% of those registered voted for conservatives last year if my calculations are right and even ignoring those who chose not to vote it is still less than 2/5 of all actual votes. More democracy beats less democracy I guess.

Not necessarily. EU legislation has been overwhelmingly beneficial for us. The stuff that people tend to complain about are things like consumer protections and climate change regulations - horribly short-sighted. It costs us money in the short-term but it's completely necessary.

Consider this: the EU recently tried to introduce legislation that would reduce deaths due to air pollution. Our government alone blocked it. The EU protects our interests more than our elected government ever have.

I'd rather Remain.

You might, but this referendum is forever. In 30yrs time migration might be forgotten and the economics may have changed. The German AfD and Austrian Freedom Party might be in power and the EU has its own army that is marching through London to enforce the latest round of "cleansings" within the United States of Europe. And you will be to blame because this could have been a free country had you voted Leave.

What a delusional viewpoint, ridiculous fearmongering and trying to attribute blame to something that won't happen anyway.

You can be pretty sure that if the EU, for whatever reason, started to betray its own members and do things particularly out of the ordinary, then we'll just hold another referendum when the consensus would be to leave. There is no lock-in so if things get bad enough in say 30 years, of course we can just pack up and leave.

You might, but this referendum is forever. In 30yrs time migration might be forgotten and the economics may have changed. The German AfD and Austrian Freedom Party might be in power and the EU has its own army that is marching through London to enforce the latest round of "cleansings" within the United States of Europe. And you will be to blame because this could have been a free country had you voted Leave.

Not necessarily. EU legislation has been overwhelmingly beneficial for us. The stuff that people tend to complain about are things like consumer protections and climate change regulations - horribly short-sighted. It costs us money in the short-term but it's completely necessary.

Consider this: the EU recently tried to introduce legislation that would reduce deaths due to air pollution. Our government alone blocked it. The EU protects our interests more than our elected government ever have.

But a Remain vote is for life and for the lives of future generations..

You know that the Eurozone has already finished Stage 1 of Union and that was the primary reason for Cameron's failed renegotiations. As Cameron said to the EU President at the beginning of his renegotiation letter:

"There are today effectively two sorts of members of the European Union. There are Euro members and non-Euro members."

If we vote Remain it will be taken as evidence that the UK wants the same union as the rest of the EU. Eurozone Stage 2 Union, Political Union, starts next year. We will either be marginalised or have to join them. If we join their political union then any further referendums will depend on a vote in the European Parliament, not in the UK regional assembly - another referendum wont happen (indeed this referendum only happened by accident).

If the EU swings far right or far left the UK will have to follow. This referendum is not about promises and bribes offered now. It is about 20 or 100 years time.

Scaremongering much? We are voting for whether or not we want the UK to remain in the EU, not based on the particular political parties that may or may not be in power in the next few decades.

It's not a vote for life though, that's scaremongering. We can leave at any time. If the EU ever starts acting against our interests, then public opinion will obviously change. We can have another referendum, or just elect a party that will take us out of the EU.

We shouldn't leave now because of what might happen.

I'd rather Remain.