[jonbxx]

I work in a highly regulated business that has to comply with EU rules on medicines and machinery. We have to comply with those rules to be able to sell products to EU countries. If we left the EU, we would still have to comply with those rules. The only difference would be that the UK would have no say in those rules any more. We would still have the downside to working in a regulated environment wihtout the means to influence things.

Just quickly, I see the term 'EU beurocrats hadning out diktats' being bandied about. Do people know how EU laws are written? They still have to go through a voting process via the Council or Europe and/or the European Parliament which consists of members you voted for. People seem to think that proposed laws from the European Commission are a fait accompli - that is not the case, there are rounds of debates, deals, etc. to get a law through to reflect member states interests. This is no different from UK politics - MPs don't write laws, they rely on Civil Servants for that job.