You realise, don't you, that UKIP can't just make the UK leave the EU (how ever much quite a few of us want to) - Nigel Farage is very short on the details on how he would bring about the UK leaving the EU, except that he would hold a referendum. I wonder what would happen if he (or the Tories, if they win next year) held a referendum, and the majority vote for staying in?
We are bound by legal treaties - we have to disengage in a legal way, otherwise why would any country we want to deal with in the future trust us, as treaty-breakers; we need to negotiate an exit, and create new bilateral treaties with countries as trading partners.
This article, from the
Grauniad, is fairly even-handed about the challenges that may occur should we leave.