Who do you believe?

It is funny.  Well, its not really funny given the context, but I am sure you know what I mean.

One day someone says we will be £3800 worse off of we leave.  The next day someone says we will be £3,000 better off if we stay in the medium term.  

Then there is the health of our people.  One side says the NHS will be safer if we leave the EU.  And another responds, no, we will be less well provisioned in our health care as the cost of drugs could rise.

And so it goes on. You do really have to start agreeing with Nicola Sturgeon when she says, in effect, “get a grip boys and girls, start trying to win people by arguments, not nonsense, scare stories and trivia".  She is right.  Both sides.  Though I do have to say Remain has a worse record of trying to scare people to vote their way.

But sometimes there is good debating stuff coming into the public domain.

Are we safer in or out?  And here there is actually some good input.  Not the rather childish world war three stuff David Cameron delivered. 

No, more the kind of measured input you would expect from a former senior public servant like Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6.

As a European Commission report revealed the new EU deal struck with Turkey means terrorists are more likely to attack European countries.  The plan will give 75 million Turkish citizens access to the Schengen visa-free area in the EU, effectively creating a border free zone from the English Channel to the warzones of Syria and Iraq.  Not find that disturbing?

EU leaders have admitted that terrorists and criminals are ‘expected’ to seek Turkish passports as soon as the visa-free access comes into force in order to travel throughout Europe.  And they will.

Sir Richard warned that these plans would make the UK less safe.  Indeed, he described it as ‘perverse’ and like ‘storing gasoline next to the fire we’re trying to extinguish’.  Challenging words.

The former spy chief went on to say that we do not have to be in the EU to cooperate with our European partners on security issues.  Indeed, he stated that many European countries look to the UK for training on counterterrorism and intelligence matters.

So far from the UK becoming more vulnerable if we leave, Sir Richard argues quite the reverse.  

So, in whom do you put your trust?  A politician climbing the ever more greasy pole?  Or a retired senior intelligence person who has no axe to grind?  

Bit of an easy one that would you not say?