Europe House in Westminster, London. Wikimedia. Public domain.One of the strange silences in the current British general election is the sotto or non voce question of Europe. In less than a month the British people will make a binary choice. Either they vote to embark on the road of an In-Out plebiscite on Europe by sending back David Cameron to Downing Street or they elect Ed Miliband and there is no Brexit plebisictie and hence no immediate risk of Britain quitting the European Union.
The choice could not be more dramatic. At the end of a Brexit referendum, as I will demonstrate below, there is the strong possibility if not probability that under the pressure of populist, press-fomented attacks, the UK will quit the EU.
This will be the first time in British history that the nation will have left an international treaty organisation following a politically motivated plebiscite which hands power to off-shore media proprietors, to secretive financiers, and to single-issue pressure groups that call themselves parties but have no serious representation in elected bodies.
