I see that my own Shipley MP, the young right-wing Tory Phillip Davies, has launched a "Better Off Out" campaign urging Britain to leave the European Union. Now we know why UKIP didn´t put up a candidate against him in the General Election, which enabled him to win the seat by a very small margin with their support - and now it´s payback time!

I see that David Cameron has already ticked him off. He realises that their is a real danger to the Conservative attempts at revival from it´s lunatic fringe. I´m told that Mr Davies has also made comments sympathetic to the BNP and I have myself read his remarks attacking what he calls "political correctness" but most people would call politeness.

Quite how Britain would be "better off out" is hard to see. We would be leaving our "neighbourhood committee" where we cooperate with all our neighbouring countries. We would be walking away from our main export market (which takes nearly 60% of our exports on which nearly 3 million jobs depend). We would undermine a structure that has secured peace in our area for three generations. We would lose a voice around the table at which decisions that affect us are taken. Our citizens would lose their rights to travel freely, work and live in other EU countries. I could go on and on and on...