As the European Union Referendum campaign gains momentum the rhetoric has predictably become more emotional and abusive. Still, that’s politicians for you, never that far away from the kindergarten or school playground.

Much of the talk has been of economics, with each side wheeling out their financial “experts” peddling scare-mongering theories as to how much it will cost us if we stay or leave.

It would be naïve to hope that the majority of voters would look to how their votes would affect the country as a whole (and future generations) rather than the short-term impact on their pockets, but that’s human nature, I suppose.

Perhaps it was ever thus and perhaps people really can be bought or sold. If that is the case then they can hardly complain if things don’t turn out quite the way they’d planned.