If recession assails us once more, as now looks increasingly probable, we have a simple question to be asked:
'Will the UK 'ride the wave' better from inside the EU or from without?'
History indicates that as the EU is an integral part of the problem, it seems highly unlikely that it will be part of the solution!
On a broader field, it would be rather nice for the world not to have 'a leading economy' such as the one presided over by the terminally naive Obama.
Obama took office and presided over a massive rise in public spending which he was all too slow in recognising would need to be severely restricted.
To be fair to the man, I do believe that 'a dose of economic reality' may have brought him to some sort of 'epiphany' - but only time will tell.
