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Quit the EU? Even the Economist can see it's an option

The Economist tells us that “there is a non-trivial chance that Britain might fall out of the EU one day. Such a falling-out would involve a hasty withdrawal from a Europe that had taken an impossibly unpalatable turn. The chances of such a messy crisis are rising.”

Yep. But far from being a Bad Thing, as the Economist supposes, Britain leaving the EU will be good – for our economy and for our democracy.

Then again, the Economist, I seem to remember, once darkly warned us all of the dangers of leaving the European Exchange Rate Mechanism. That “messy crisis” freed us not only from ERM, but from the Euro. And, despite the best efforts of our political elite to embroil us in it, the current Euro debt crisis, too.

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