We managed perfectly well before, we can manage again. Europe doesn't want us to leave. Why? Because they need us more than we need them. I voted back in the day to join Europe when it was the Common Market. It is no longer just a common market. We are bound by the many, many laws Europe imposes on us, and this is getting worse. (so many of these laws are just crackers) Now they are thinking of a European army for goodness sake. Why?
Federalism has crept in.
We have friends all over the world with whom we can trade, all the Commonwealth countries for a start, and I doubt very much that Europe would refuse to trade with us, they are the ones that would lose out. Obama's threat that we would have to wait in line was nonsense. He's going soon, and has always been very anti-Brit.
Thank goodness we stayed out of the Euro, which was never a good idea in my mind unless all participating members had the same monetary controls and tax laws, and so it has proved.
Cameron's desperate scare tactics and refusal to have a televised debate with the Brexits says it all to me.
It may be a risk, but I believe we are more at risk if we remain.
If we were in the fifties or early sixties, I would agree with you.
But we're not, we live in the 21st century and those things you talk as happening is just not so.
We are the United Kingdom, which even though it's a monarchy and capitalistic in politics, it is already a group of states, England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the islands off the coast or the tax havens! Which I think is already a federal sort of conglomeration.
Your post is similar to a party bulletin using scare tactics that you think is the remains tactics, both sides are trying to scare us.
If I had a preference to oversee the tax system, it wouldn't be the people in power in this country. We have one of the most disgusting tax practices in the world.
In Europe the tax system in most countries is fairer and goes to the benefit of all the people, not just for the very rich!
I still shake my head when I see what these politicians, especially in the leave campaign want for the ordinary Joe in the street and what the other Tories have done to the NHS, elderly, disabled and the very poor in this country and the disgusting plight of so many people that are running from the ideological wars going on in the world and the response from our leaders. Only European politicians forced ours to do something.
If you want a better world, not Britain, the whole world, we do not want to become nationalistic in our politics.
We need to come together.
We need to be better at collaborating with our neighbours and the rest of the world.
Isolationism doesn't work in the modern era!
Even though I think you are politically on the other side, I know you care and your advice is always brilliant. Take care!