EU REFERENDUM : OLDER GENERATION AND SMALL BUSINESS HAS IT RIGHT.

It's interesting to consider the motivations of the different groups lining up for the forthcoming referendum.

Politicians and officials who love being at the head of vast, bureaucratic and undemocratic organisations are mostly in favour of the UK remaining within the EU. A vote to 'Remain' means that they can all carry on as before, touring around Europe at public expense and looking ever so important. A vote to 'Leave' seriously threatens this, so they will lie, cheat and basically do anything to try to convince us to say in.

The leaders of international companies also want us to 'Remain', though there reasons are quite different. They simply want to avoid any potential barriers to their businesses; they don't like the idea of trade barriers and tariffs, so also much prefer sticking to what we have now rather than risking a trip into the unknown. Meanwhile, small businessmen, who are mostly older people, see a vote to 'Leave' as freeing them from much of the ludicrous and stifling rules and regulations which flow daily from Brussels, and so long for change and an exit.

When we come to the general population, there seems to be a huge divide between younger and older voters. The older members of our society have experienced the European Union at ground level and  in all its full horror for decades and can't wait to leave. They want the UK to reclaim its sovereignty, decide on its own laws and policies, manage its borders properly and so on; they are overwhelmingly in favour of a vote to 'Leave'.

On the other hand, the younger generation, who have little if any experience of either the EU or the real world, want us to 'Remain'. They see staying in the EU as their passport to easy travel and lots of fun; in fact, they have no wider view of things than the borders of their own self-gratification. Thankfully, history tells us that this is the group least likely to bother to vote as they don't really have much interest in anything but themselves and their own pleasures.

This all leaves us with two groups with seriously vested interests, one group which knows how stifling the EU is for small business, one group which is interested only in itself and one group which has a wider view and is genuinely concerned for the future of this country and its people. There is only one choice -VOTE LEAVE.