Franglais:
The pound?
As part of a strong trading group the pound will more likely remain stronger. When we leave it will most likely become weaker. Keeping a strong economy is most likely to keep the pound longer! Not the other way around.
And I may be different to others, I dont much care if the electric figures in my bank account are measured in £ $ or €. So long as I get a fair amount for my work, Im OK with that. Staying in a strong free trade group is better than spending my hard earned electrons on tariffs!
I’m not totally linked to having a pound, as long as I can spend it you can call it what you like, but during the financial collapse the independence of Sterling gave us a lot more tools than countries in the Eurozone to help the economy, a single currency could work, but only with total integration, I remember listening to various fincial experts at the time of it’s introduction, some saying Britain must join to save the City of London and others saying it was a problem in the making having countries with such different economies tie themselves into the restrictions of a single currency.
Franglais:
I cant see a compulsory Eu Army in my lifetime. If it came I reckon it would be a good thing. The British Army has proud English, Scots and Welsh regiments. They retain their historic associations, and none of us today can imagine them fighting each other, can we? But historically they would have been foes. I look forward to a time when we look at our Euro neighbours and dont see a bunch of strange people, we should be afraid of, who we need to protect ourselves from. Most of us don`t think like that, and not all leavers do of course, but there is a noisy minority who seem to live in a post WW2 time warp.
Agreed one of the thing that annoys me with those that support Brexit are the ones who seem to still be in some WWII mind set, I work with plenty of people from all over Europe and we do seem to have national traits, (although despite the stereotype the Germans I’ve met do have a great sense of humour 
and we used to have great fun winding our French Engineer up about being French and watch his go off on rant about us thinking all French men wear berry’s, ride bike with a baguette in the basket and a string of onions round his neck 
) I’d hate for us to be in some homogenous Europe, where thousands of years of culture is melded into one big lump.
Franglais:
Again I cant see taxes being centralised in my life time. And is there any evidence at all to suggest they would be higher rather than lower under Brussels rather than London? If so, I would be well in favour, and vote for that today. I want better hospitals, schools, roads, policing. I dont believe any stories from politicians about how we will get a better country without investing in our future. Do you really think low taxes are the be-all and end-all of life?
But if you want a government that changes the tax system in this country we can vote for it, although it’s true we haven’t really had much of a choice for decades, but that seems to be changing. People do seem to be waking up to the fact they not only can change things, but must change things.
The problem with the EU even if we had a more democratic processes, it’s still too big for the ordinary, looking at the desire for Scottish independence, then Brexit and the Catalan push for independence, many people want to feel they have more control over their lives, something they feel they have lost with increased globalisation.
Franglais:
If as you suggest we ended up in the Euro zone, with centralized taxation then clearly any tax rates would apply equally well to France Germany and the UK, since we would all be in the same boat. No accusations of favouritism to one or other party, we would all sink or swim according to our merits.
And if you believe we are intelligent, hard workers why wouldn’t we do well on such a level playing field?
That isn’t really what happened in the case of a single currency, it benefited Germany to trade with a currency that would have been far lower than if they’d kept the Deutschmark, but held back countries who could have benefited by having a lower valued currency. The other thing that would happen, as happens now with the EU contribution, some countries would say they are putting more into the pot and other countries are reaping greater benefits from it.
