On the economic front, no one really has a clue either way, so I think that, which seems to be what comprises the bulk of what is passing for ‘debate’ about the entire EU debacle, can be left to one side - everybody (as ever) talks nonsense and if we really want to make all our decisions based on what makes Mammon happiest then I’m not sure we should be making any decisions at all.
Instinctively I lean towards voting to leave the EU. Whatever the admirable ideals behind its original foundation, it’s grown cancerous and out of all proportion to what it can realistically achieve, and beyond any sense of common purpose or unity (behind the common purpose of lining the troughs of a particular group of people, anyway).
All the same if looking for a primarily Christian or Catholic perspective about the upcoming referendum, I confess to being rather stuck. Britain is not nor gives any likelihood of looking like it might, on leaving, be remotely capable of re-recognising itself for what it historically was as Our Lady’s Dowry. Or in fact being capable of moving one iota in the direction of more wholesome political or national morals. I think we are all damned (metaphorically, if not actually - who knows about that!?) if we leave just as much as if we stay.
That aside, there are arguments for both leaving and staying and so like most people with an actual say in this one is rather left scratching one’s head. There isn’t ultimately an ethical problem that can clearly be solved by reference to doctrine; it depends on wider aspects of one’s political ideology - it’s why I think most voters, if they intend to vote at all, have probably already made up their minds.
(Leaving aside the issue that the Prime Minister thoroughly fluffed the entire issue, because he could legitimately have lead a charge to reform the EU properly, with the support of other member governments who also have grievances against the current institutions, instead of running round humiliating the country begging for scraps).