I am voting to Leave the EU on 23 June 2016, I've set out my reasons in my EU declaration, which you can find on my Facebook page and my website.
There are two massive issues facing the EU currently. One is the immigration crisis and the complete shambles we have seen on the continent and the pressures we have on people trying to come to the UK at Calais, this should not be happening under EU rules, but it is. The second is the viability of the Euro; we have seen over the last few years just how delicate the economies of the Portugal and Greece have become and their sovereignty completely usurped by the EU, meaning there is very little their own people and politicians can do about it.
Yet the deal the Prime Minister gallantly battled for says absolute nothing about these two things. The EU is in denial. What they should have been saying to David Cameron was "thank goodness someone has been brave enough to put their head above the parapet and say the EU is not working and we need reform, otherwise the EU won't be around in a few years time". Instead we were treated like a naughty schoolboy and given a few reforms that are not actually legally enforceable.
So for me, it is absolutely clear; do we want to be shackled to an out-of-date institution, which is falling back in the world - the EU will be the third largest trading block in the coming years, having been the first. Meanwhile, we are spending £350m per week to run the EU, which is enough to buy a new hospital every week.
I am going to Vote Leave so that we can have an independent and positive future, where politicians are accountable to people in the UK and can decide how best to spend money in the interest of British people, and so that we can trade with people around the world, be outward looking, and not held back by the many regulations and restrictions of the EU. Europe will still exist and we will have a relationship with the EU, so let's stop the scaremongering about what #Brexit actually means.
I shall be making the positive case for leaving the EU and will be holding a number of public meetings in the coming months to have a proper debate on the future of the UK and the EU. I look forward to debate, I hope you do too.