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This is rather like saying that you do not want to come out of your first class cabin on the Titanic because it is cold and wet outside.

Yes, there will be issues which need resolving. But this report speaks as if the EU was always there. It wasn't. There was a life before then where we managed quite well. When in France recently there were petrol shortages and demonstrations, all organised by the CGT, against Hollande's attempts to relax employment legislation so as to try to reduce the over 10% unemployment level. The CGT won and the President backed down. But the SNCF is still intending to bring the country to a standstill next week. Why? To get Hollande to withdraw his proposals. But he has already done that. But still the strike is to go ahead.

Brussels moves to Strasbourg for one week each month at huge public expense. 27 countries want this practice abolished. But they are unable to do so. Why? Because France vetoes the change.

Here in Italy the mayor of Rome has had to resign over a scandal and the city is run by a commission until another is elected. The minister of works had to resign over a scandal. The French finance minister Cuzac had to resign over a 10 million Euro deposit he tried to place in Switzerland after promising to cut down on tax avoidance.

Immigration is completely out of control. Dutch people complain to me that the Dutch have completely lost their identity.

Wake up for goodness' sake. The EU ship is sinking fast. If we do not get off in time, and now is the time, we shall, go down with it.