Should We Stay Or Should We Go?

Opinion polls show the majority of the British people to have doubts about the constitution. However, views are still divided on whether or not the UK should leave the EU altogether. In this pamphlet two authors, both critical of the current EU, put the case for and against withdrawal. For Stephen Pollard, the constitution represents the last gasp of the 'Old Europe,' written by 'the archetypal Old Europe politician, Giscard D'Estaing,' centralized, federalist and inefficient. A 'No' vote in the promised referendum would send a shock to the heart of the EU forcing it to become 'more market-flexible, politically loose and sovereignty-respecting.'

For Lord Pearson, the whole project has already gone too far for that. With or without the constitution, so much of our sovereignty has been ceded that the only way forward, for both political and economic reasons, is to get out. 'Leaving the EU would be a liberating, refreshing, positive, modern thing to do.' Both of these essays printed here are in the best tradition of political polemic. The authors argue their opposing positions with passion and conviction, enabling readers to compare and evaluate the two sides of this most topical debate.