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Yesterday's article in the Telegraph Business section explained cogently how the EU engineers regime change or capitulation to the Brussels/Berlin diktat. They give examples of how the ECB withheld purchases of Italian bonds back in 2011 to enforce austerity policies on Berlusconi's government "when he began to flirt with the lira". Then there was the Greek episode, where there the EU used "fear and economic coercion" to get its way. Not to mention whatever coercion was mad to force Ireland and France (I think it was) to hold a second referendum on treaty changes.

My point here is that painful as it may initially be, many Leavers insist that the UK needs to get away from this undemocratic and oppressive system.

As I've said before, I don't mind staying in the EU so long as the UK can continue using our picador sticks against the Junckers and Selmayrs that infest the Commission. There's not much that the EU can blackmail us with under their rules.