Olivers army is here to stay.

I have heard some extraordinary things in this referendum campaign.   One of the most bizarre is we will be safer In.

On what basis I ask?  Because it's better what you know is the standard reply.

And that’s one of the underlying things about this vote.  Both Remain and Leave actually don’t know what will happen.  Though there is more of a clue on the Remain side.

We know for example, the day after the referendum the European Commission will begin to publish a series of document covering areas ranging from a single EU army (who will have the finger on our nuclear deterrent button? I ask). Not so much Elvis Costello's Olivers Army as Jean-Claude Junker's army.

Then there will be propsals for more tax harmonisation where we will no longer be able to set our own tax rates.

And there even greater freedom for the European Court of Justice to override our own UK judicial system without even allowing our own elected parliament to debate laws that will have to be enforced in the UK.

And a unifed foreign policy is on the cards too.  All of which makes our Westmisnter a bit of a waste of space.

Scary?  To me it is.

As Daniel Hannan says in his latest blog, the status quo is not an option in this vote. "In politics, as in life, it’s generally the things we don’t do that we later regret. We have a unique opportunity to stand amicably aside from the merger of Europe’s states, to deal with our allies through a common market not a common government. Are we truly going to be bullied out of doing what we know to be right?"