Caine hits the spot on EU.

It was a great pleasure to hear Michael Caine on Radio 4 this week.  I have been a fan of his ever since watching him way back in the1960’s playing Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File. It seems that his acting career is still going strong with a new film, Youth, in which he is co-starring with Harvey Keitel, coming out at the end of January.

On the radio Caine made some typically PC-lite remarks about the lack of black actors in the Oscar nominations; (‘I think in the end you can’t vote for an actor just because he’s black’). Then, inevitably, he was asked about his views on our membership of the EU. (I think this will be a question for all interviewees for the foreseeable future).

Caine’s response really chimed with me because it closely reflects my own feelings.  He said that leaving the EU was ‘scary’ and he is right because the truth is that either option, in or out, entails a high degree of uncertainty.  However, as he continued to speak (and he seemed to be almost thinking aloud) it became clear that his preference was to leave.

It seems we will soon hear what David Cameron has managed to ‘negotiate’ with the Brussels bureaucracy, and I will make my final decision once details become clear.  However my gut feeling as things stand now is that we would be better off out than in.