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Osborne's threats just go to show the depths the remainers will now go to. Unless the UK's fundamentals have changed since February, how on Earth can he reconcile this latest nonsense with what his PM was saying just a few months ago. At no point did they enter into the EU negotiations telling us that they regardless of what they achieved, if we were to leave the EU there'd be a need for massive tax increases or any number of the other catastrophes they've since predicted. Either they've only just worked it all out or they're lying in order to influence the vote and I know which I suspect. I feel they've lost the plot and their campaign has descended into rabid threats. Thankfully a large number of Tory MP's have already confirmed they'd vote against any such move by Osborne but that doesn't diminish the mistake I believe he's just made. If their plan was to issue a new headline-grabbing threat every day then I think they're already scraping the barrel.

Despite being keen for us to get out of the EU, I am fully aware that doing so would not be a bed of roses and will certainly throw up huge challenges, albeit IMHO far less serious problems than remaining in a failing, unreformable club. I acknowledge that there are benefits to remaining inside the EU, especially, if it were able to be reformed, I just don't believe it can be and the intransigence shown by them in earlier this year in the face of the 2nd largest contributor to the club leaving is my evidence.

Regardless of the result of the vote, I think Cameron and Osborne are finished. I can't see many Tories feeling that Osborne could now ever be a credible party leader and I think there'll be a leadership challenge. This massively important issue could and should have been handled so very differently and had HMG had the confidence to avoid the worst of the scaremongering and made their case whilst acknowledging even a few of the benefits of getting out, I feel people would have had a lot more respect for them. As it is, they've clearly misled us about being even the slightest bit open minded prior to the renegotiations and must already have been fully committed to staying in under any foreseeable circumstances. As such their stance has been a complete sham from day one.