No this is true, but we'll lose harder by leaving. As a fellow northerner and scouser, I'm sure you'll agree that overall EU money has done the world of good. Still, I'd actually quite like to vote to leave, firstly just to see Cameron and Osbourne consigned to the dustbin of history, and then several decades worth of schadenfreude as the Brexiters realise that their resentment and anger, of which much is genuine and understandable, has nothing to do with the EU, which in my opinion has been made a scapegoat for something much worse, namely;

Relentless privatization and asset stripping, spiraling costs of education, poorly thought-through mass immigration, under-investment in infrastructure (outside of London) and the callous abandonment by the Tories of the North by a London-centric political class, along with the failure to address the decades of decline triggered by de-industralisation - throw all that on a trashheap of an economic policy which has dominated since the 1970's by both mainstream right and left political parties, driving inequality to absolutely perverse levels. Not just between the worlds richest and poorest, but between the top 1% and the remaining 99%. Leaving the EU will help not one single bit with this, in fact it will likely make it worse.

I've always been more towards remain, but I've listened to the arguments of the Brexit carefully. In the end, the Brexit argument goes like this;

The Brexit argument attacks the EU but acknowledges none of the benefits. It's campaign has been driven by exaggerations, rhetoric and outright lies. They can criticise ad nausea the faults and shortcomings of the EU but simply have no facts, no clear vision, basically no idea how the UK will be post-Brexit, other than 'it will be great, trust us'.

It's backward and regressive and if we vote Brexit, rather than transforming Britain into some sort of socialist paradise where we are governed by Brits for Brits, we'll see workers rights, human rights and environmental rights stripped away, and those vicious spivs in Westminster having a carte blanche to do whatever the hell they want.