The pro-European lobby are repeatedly using the CBI's call to remain in the EU to promote their stance, as James Wharton's private member's bill makes it way through the Commons, appearing again today. The Bill, to remind readers, calls for an in/out referendum in 2017. The point is that the eurosceptics, and I count myself as one, are not demanding that the UK leaves Europe in the way our opponents would have you believe. You'd think from what some of the europhiles say that the UK would be cast into outer space if we left the EU, never to be seen again, when nothing could be further from the truth. We want to trade with Europe, as was originally intended, but not be run by Europe. It really is that simple. And once we have complete control of our working practises, borders, budgets, justice system and other key areas, the UK would leap ahead like one of those sports cars tested by Jeremy Clarkson. And rather than lose jobs, we'd create them, as British industry, free at last from the EU yoke, ventured into new and expanding markets around the world. Listening to some of the speeches on the Labour Benches this afternoon, I became more and more depressed, as they banged on and on about the benefits of receiving millions of pounds for this and millions of pounds for that. This is called Socialism and just like dishing out welfare, it discourages aspiration, ambition and hard work, forcing member states to become more and more reliant on the titbits handed out by a Federalist/Socialist centre. You only have to look around the EU now to see what a total disaster a single currency is. Stay in the EU and we will join all these basket cases, who now lie at the feet of a mighty economy: Germany's.