(14.April) Our only hope today is the same as that expressed by the great William Pitt the Younger, of which you certainly need no reminding. “England has saved herself by her exertions and will, as I trust, save Europe by her example.” For that to have a chance of happening we have to vote to leave on 23rd June. We certainly cannot change the EU from the inside, and if we vote to stay the EU will exact a terrible revenge for our bloody-mindedness. However, by leaving we might just encourage people like the Dutch, the Germans and the Scandinavians of the need for real, as opposed to superficial, change.