In a poll released today by polling organisation Angus Reid (who, to be fair, made a complete hash of the General Election percentages so maybe we shouldn’t pay too much attention) it seems that half of Britons would vote for freedom and an escape from the EU.

The level of animosity towards the European Union (EU) in Britain remains high, a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll has found.

In the online survey of a representative national sample of 2,003 British adults, a majority of respondents (57%) believe that EU membership has been negative for the United Kingdom, while only one third (32%) think it has had a positive effect.

Respondents aged 18-to-34 are more likely to express positive feelings about the EU (45%) than those aged 35-to-54 (31%) and those over the age of 55 (22%).

Half of Britons (49%) say they would vote against the United Kingdom remaining a member of the EU if a referendum took place, while only one-in-four (25%) would vote to stay. Older respondents favour the idea of abandoning the EU by a 3-to-1 margin (68% to 19%).

Finally, Britons oppose the notion of the UK adopting the euro as its national currency by a 10-to-1 margin, with 81 per cent of respondents saying they would reject this course of action in a referendum.

10-1 against the Euro these days…remind us again, did anyone thank William Hague for successfully running that campaign?

The arguments for what this poll means can cut both ways, but there is one depressing truth – if there is a referendum then the full scare tactics of (the leadership of) the two main parties, all of the other yellow one and the massive media tyranny of the BBC would come to bear on any EU naysayers. We’d be told that if we quit then the country would turn into the economic and social wastelands of Somalia, Mogadishu or Bradford overnight.

On the other hand, Bradford already has turned into Bradford so maybe we should take the risk….