How exactly are Germany executing a "takeover by stealth" within the constraints of a democratic EU Parliament (and for all the bluster about 'unelected' bureaucrats, the EU IS democratic)?
If Germany is economically strong, it's because it has done pretty much the polar opposite of us over the last 30 years. And if you think leaving the EU is going suddenly restore British industry to where it was sixty years ago, you're delusional. The Tories despise the working class - always have done, always will - and the very people now urging Brexit are the very people who can't wait to get their hands on what's left and sell it all off, along with the NHS, the BBC and whatever else they can lay their hands on before people realise they've been conned.
If course, they're setting themselves up for an ugly fall, as when Brexit fails to bring about the improvements they're claiming it will, and indeed makes things even worse, there's going to be all kinds of ugly bother - but by then their ideologically-driven violence against the fabric of British public life will have caused irreversible damage.
And Scotland will have left the Union and be back in the EU, meaning we'll have an actual border between England and Scotland.
And migration will still be high, because our economy requires it.
But public spending will have been axed even further as the 'new' Tory government imposes further cuts, so the queues at our local hospitals will be even worse - conveniently setting up the dismantling of a health service the leading Brexit advocates loathe.
Who do we blame then?
I hope we will remain and reform the EU from within. But I am almost resigned to the fact that we are heading for Brexit. It's almost futile trying to convince people to change their mind by now - the damage has been done by successive governments failing to invest properly in areas like Boston hit hardest by increased pressure on services, and also by the dispiriting willingness of pro-EU people to dismiss the concerns of people in places like Boston as the bigoted patter of small-town racists.
What a mess.