The issue with fishing affects all uf us directly because it has resulted in higher seafood prices, loss of fishing stock and less choice of regional seafood.

One change that did affect me personally, not yet mentioned, was a change to the Employment laws concerning temp workers back in 2010 /2011.

It gave even more rights to temp workers bringing them onto the same level as permanent sfaff after only 12 weeks, and you may think that would have  been a good thing.

I knew it wouldn't be and that proved to be the case. 

Before then the employment laws had improved working terms and contracts for temp workers to a very good degree.  Suddenly it was all getting out of hand and it meant that contracts were 'adjusted' and longer term contract work dried up and hourly rates were reduced as low as they could go on the day the new laws came into being, to make up for how the agencies and employers were manoevering to be within the law but deny temp workers not just the new rights but also reduce the ones they had beforehand.

So, although of course there is no guarantee that any employment laws would be brought in to be roughly in line with what we have, should we leave the EU, there is no reason why there couldn't be productive UK Employment laws which even improve on what are the current impositions.

And today there was a snippet of news on employment.

Unemployment has risen by 21,000 to £1,7m which may sound not so good but apparently we have 31.4m in work = 5.1% jobless.

BUT - almost half of all new jobs that are created within the EU are taken by people from other EU member states.

So the UK is still creating jobs, but not only are nearly half of these going to people outside of the UK, we don't know how much of those earnings are sent 'home' to other member states.