My wife is pretty certain she'll vote 'out'.

I'm like Avant - more information needed before I make my decision. I hope that the campaign will be run on the actual issues, rather than scaremongering and fact-twisting (by both sides !), but I very much doubt that will be the case.

I would also like to see what are the benefits of staying in rather than all the 'negatives' of leaving.

Maybe it's just me but, when the EU is against us leaving. I can't help but think they need us more than we need them.

I voted no in 75 and i shall be voting out this time, as will SWMBO.

I fear that we shall, despite all the rhetoric, be staying in one way or another, if we should dare to do not as we're told (and they haven't fixed enough votes to ensure an IN win) then i expect another pantomime negotiation, Boris will no doubt assist doing his best U turns, a quick renaming of the agreement, and another vote which will be IN...much the same as the Irish who had to vote again till they got it right.

May i humbly suggest the very last place to look for fair information is the state propaganda machine the BBC, i don't usually listen to Jeremy Vine but if anyone caught todays interview with the 93 year old RAF veteran who was asked to compare refugees he'd seen after the second world war, and the Calais jungle he'd visited...the very last item on the show, that propaganda broadcast was something our good friend Mr Goebbels would have been proud of, Vine doing himself proud leading the witness when the poor chap came off script, and the very last item of BBC broadcast i shall ever view or listen to.

Edited by gordonbennet on 02/03/2016 at 19:14

It's a tricky one, members of my family are expats and with the uncertainty over the pound it's hard to judge what to do. That's quite a selfish reasoning though. The pound could of course become stronger than ever but it could also become very weak, but I am no financial expert. The pound is very low at the moment, with spending a bit of my time in America that is not so good for me... Again, a selfish outlook and I know far too little about everything else.

The migrant issue is a tired one. We wouldn't have crippled services if we didn't bail out banks after the financial crisis and none of this would be a problem, only to people that have issues with colour.

Iceland is doing pretty fine by themselves, just relinquished all of their countries debt and jailed bankers. If only other countries could do the same.

I am as yet undecided. One question I had was what happens if there is an out vote and found this which presents some of the issues which would need resolving.

cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/brexit01.pdf

I certainly think there needs to be far more information available to voters about the issues raised in the report.

As out may not mean out!

I think we can cut out most of this nonsense because it's really a very simple question at the end of the day;

Do you want Britain to be a free democratic state - like it was for hundreds of years until 1973 - or not? That really is all this comes down to.

Personally I want to live in a free democratic state where people we elect make the laws. As a member of the EU this is not possible. Fact.

Nobody needs to worry about trade, we buy too much from the EU to not have a free trade agreement within about forty seconds of leaving. In the modern world the 'threat to trade' argument is just hilarious. It may have had a place 40 years ago but not anymore.

The public are now very close to accepting that Britain cannot control immigration as an EU member - unlike a free independent democratic state which is entitled to control its immigration policy. That will probably be what wins it for the 'leave' side in the end.

The only downside to the situation so far is the individual politicians on the 'leave' side, some of whom aren't the most likeable of people; there's plenty of disabled people for example who will vote to stay in purely because Iain Duncan Smith says otherwise.

I can understand that but I feel this question should be above things like that because I feel the question of national democracy is bigger than that, unfortunately it probably won't be because the publics natural setting is to vote in self interest and to maintain status quo.

The modern day political class is almost completely made up of career politicians benefitting in one way or another from EU membership. It's been very good for them and their legions of civil servants and assistants.

If EU membership had any more to it then politicians would make the positive case, but instead they resort to the 'without me, you'll be worse off' argument in a desperate bid to scare people into maintaining bureaucrats' bank balances.

What have we had in the past week? We've been told that if we pull out of the EU then all economic activity would cease, German cars would no longer be sold here, Wales would disappear into the sea, terrorists would reign supreme, the entire agricultural industry would end and we'd all be living in caves.

It's a major difference to the last time this issue was put to a vote in 1975. In the 70s France vetoed our EEC entry on multiple occasions, Ted Heath went to France on a mission to win friends and even when the referendum came, the Labour Party were for leaving - and Labour put EEC withdrawal in their manifestos right up to the mid-late 1980s. How times change.

Not everyone agrees on how to measure what a 'country' is and how many of them there are, but by most objective measure there's around 190 countries in the world. Only 27 of them are in the EU, the vast majority of the World does not hand its sovereignty to unelected foreigners and does not have to accept mass immigration with zero influence or control.

If you genuinely believe Britain cannot be trusted to be an independent free democratic state, if you believe we're better off being governed by foreigners we can't elect and can't remove then that's fine. Believe that and feel free to make the case for that, just don't hide behind fear tactics because you're too scared to say it.

I would call that a side issue to be fair; I don't care if they can account for where it goes or not, I object to the fact it's gone anywhere in the first place.

I don't see why we need to pay Brussels £2 to spend £1 on whatever they like. We pay them roughly £50million every day and we get something like £30million back I believe - spent on what they want it spent on. Remember that the next time somebody mentions 'European funding.'

I think the French President has done a great service to the 'leave' side with his comments this week. British people generally do not take well to being threatened by Johnny Foreigner so the fact the French President, the US, China & all sorts of other overseas big cheeses are threatening us with the 'consequences' of leaving bodes well for the leave side and those of us who want an independent democratic state.

I used to think the 'leave' side should get more airtime, but I've changed my mind. Just keep putting stuff like that on telly and more and more people will vote to leave.