Just thought I'd start a debate going about the possibility of withdrawing from the EU. I think that although it's today quite a radical idea (because we've been a member for so long and as we've become so integrated into the system) it may surface as a real political idea soon.

I would love to make the EU work rather than leaving it. Fundamentally it's a good idea - a free trade area covering Europe. However, years of continuous growth, both in the number of members and in the areas the organisation has control over, has made the EU somewhat unweildly, with constant arguments between the member states about what to do next. I feel that reform is going to be hard to do, mainly because of widening differences between the capitalist countries such as the UK and the socialist countries such as France.

So what do you think? Should we carry on down the road of integration, sign the Constitution and firmly become a European nation. Or maybe you think that the EU has gone too far, that it's become a waste of our money and that reform is going to be impossible.

Personally I'm affraid I have to go with the latter. Which is a shame because I think the EU could have worked out so differently if it hadn't diversified into so many areas politically. We should stick to a free trade area, with some common economic rules and cross-border agreements.