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What has the EU ever done for us? Peace for one thing but it (and that of course includes UK delegates) negotiates our international trade agreements for another. It's really a creature of international rather than domestic law - so most of us don't know what it does (and that is a good thing - because law like sausages shouldn't be seen being made, so the fact we don't know means it's working) Renegotiating 40 years of international agreements with countries like the US, the rest of the EU and China (none of which think we should leave the EU) will be fun. On the detailed stuff I happen to like alot of EU law it's generally pretty well written and often aspirational - unlike the complicated rubbish that Westminster has generated over the last 20 years. Besides of all the European basket case economies - the UK with its massive public and private debt mountains and generally abysmal management and productivity is probably the most vulnerable. It astonishes me that there is any lawyer out that that cannot immediately see the implicit benefits of the EU and the constitutional stability it has brought to the UK and its neighbours. If David Crawford really does live in France I hope he has his residency visa application ready and the French authorities don't read the Legal Gazette. The world will be a very weird place if we leave and there will be an awful lot of people looking very foolish very quickly.