THE MAIN ISSUES

Muslims and polls!

The Brexit debate occurs at the height of the Syrian refugee crisis and only months after one million migrants flooded Germany. There’s little the U.K. could do to stop them moving to Manchester if they get EU citizenship. One poll said more than 40 per cent of Brexiteers are casting their ballot primarily because of immigration fears.

Everyone hates the EU

Few Britons “love” the EU. And even some of the fiercest defenders for the Remain camp will admit that the EU is an annoying, power-hungry romance language-speaking bureaucracy. The divide is whether Britain should try to change it from the inside, or ditch it altogether and (possibly) pray for its destruction.

Give me money

Brexiteers are frequently repeating the mantra that the U.K. pays the equivalent of $650 million to the EU every week (equal to $64,000 a minute). While technically true, what the figure leaves out is rebates and the EU funding that ends up back on British soil. The more accurate figure is somewhere around $315 million a week.

The economy

The almost universal opinion among economists, from the International Monetary Fund to the Bank of England, is that Brexit will incur job losses, kneecap growth and shrink government revenues — although it’s anybody’s guess by how much.