Some people have been in no doubt from day one, they instinctively held a view and have remained firm. Their view to stay or go was based on a strong sense of either believing in the status quo or wishing to try something new because or a resentment of outside interference.
If Cameron hadn't offered the option I suppose the bulk of people would have continued with their lives immune to the arguments which have thrashed too and fro with ever more heat as we approach the day of the vote
This being a referendum its a binary decision taken with equal weight on each vote, no constituency weighting, no first past the post distortion simply a vote which the pauper and the captain of industry has an equal say.
One of the things which has become clear as we listen to the claim and counter claim, no one has a clear picture of the future effect one way or the other and everything is made opaque by the rashness of the competing claims.
If we come out the British as a nation will "not" fall apart. There are arguments to suggest she might even perk up and get about her business with a little more vigour. The spirt of the nation might coalesce around the sense that being independent, released from the parental strings, the decisions and the esprit de corps might, as it does in wartime rise up a notch or two and become competitive in a very competitive market place.
Watching Jamie Diamond that icon of Wall Street threaten us with pulling his bank out from the UK and moving it to Europe reminds us who we currently share a bed with. Global markets and Global market makers such as Diamond have in many ways made small nations like ours impotent and the thrill of the Brexiteer for gathering the leavers of our destiny into our own hands has to be modified by questioning which leavers and what destiny.
Can we be an outward looking nation on which the strength of our past success has rested and an inward separatist nation frightened of the changes we see happening to our nation and which will continue to happen in or out of Europe.
Is it worth the effort to swim against the tide of the collective market and multiculturalism or should we go with the flow and absorb a new parenthesis to describe what we have evolved into. Nothing stays the same and I have no more faith in Boris Johnson as I have in David Cameron to fight our corner, so maybe we should define a new shape for the ring no right angles where we can get caught and have to fight it out, round all the corners so we can continue to slip and slide our way forward never needing to face our nemesis.
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