THE Prime Minister must be getting desperate to invoke war and genocide in prompting people to vote in.

He should read the tale of the boy that cried wolf once too often before threatening the British people of dire consequences if they don’t toe his line.

The two great wars were a continuation of the earlier smash and grab era and the demise of global empires. 

Britain was no angel in the colonial game and it got involved to safeguard British interests, not out of some holy mission to save Europe or the world.

The nation states we know today evolved in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, much of the world was dominated by military powers of one sort or the other and not free in the sense we understand the term today. 

Wars and revolutions were the norms of the times.

Post World War Two economic development and global trade make it less likely that nation states will go to war at the drop of a pin which they did 100 years back when a few made decisions and they had less to lose from an all-out war.

Britain leaving the EU will not bring down a global swarm of locusts or the plague.

That is not to say there won’t be wars or inter-ethnic and inter-sectarian violence, death and destruction in many places on earth whether Britain remains in or out.

Exploding populations across the globe and race to corner scarce resources and territory could bring existential crisis of one sort or the other.

The pace of change will be even faster given faster travel and instant communications.

The EU’s thoughtless open-door policy to refugees and economic migrants shows it is not fit for purpose to safeguard Europe’s interests, let alone that of Britain. 

EU institutions were designed post World War Two to solve the problems of an earlier era and is too slow to manage the future.

Getting agreement with all its member states before making decisions will continue to hamper progress within the EU.

It is an inflexible behemoth, not fit for purpose to face the future.

In any case, Britain does not subscribe to the EU’s declared mission towards closer political and economic union. 

The British people are temperamentally and spiritually not part of Europe.

Outside the EU, Britain can unchain itself from EU bureaucracy and unleash its full competitive potential, adapt and change to meet future challenges on the basis of qualities that put the Great in Britain.

– Venk Shenoi, Blaisdon.