Trevor Kavanagh gives three key reasons why we must all vote Out on June 23

ON June 23, if the polls are right, a jubilant David Cameron will lock Britain permanently aboard a European Titanic just as it steams into the iceberg.

Polls can be misleading and there are still four weeks to go.

The Outers who will turn up to vote come hell or high water could still dismay the bookies.

But it would be foolish to deny Project Fear has scared the waverers.

We are bombarded by terrifying “facts” about leaving.

Nobody in Downing Street seriously believes the sky will fall in if we wave goodbye to Brussels. Otherwise they would, as responsible ministers, have taken all necessary steps to avoid it.

It is alarmist to suggest shop prices will soar and house prices crash as we plunge into an economic black hole.

Why would the world stop buying and selling us goods worth billions?

Far from destitution, Britain would undoubtedly thrive and prosper.

Still, the shock tactics worry punters who by nature fear the unknown. So for the silent majority who resent the bloody-minded arrogance  of our ruling EU elite,  here are the indisputable facts that make the Brexit fight worthwhile, whatever the result.

• The EU is unaccountable, unelected and undemocratic. It treats its citizens with contempt.
• Its dithering leaders are useless at moments of real crisis such as the Balkans conflict and mass immigration.
• The euro — its single most celebrated creation — is on the brink of catastrophic meltdown.

In or Out, these facts will not change. The EU is unfit  for purpose, the relic of an obsolete and dangerous delusion that 28 nation states can be united under one flag.

For one single example  of Europe’s sheer blinkered incompetence, it is impossible to beat the disastrous single currency.

Before our eyes, this doomed experiment has wrecked the lives of millions of jobless young men and women across the EU. Some will never  work again.

It bankrupted Greece and threatens to crash the  rickety Italian economy, with dangerous side-effects for Spain and Portugal.

Yet membership of this reckless gamble was urged upon us by ALL those, like Michael Heseltine, now warning of catastrophe if we vote Brexit.

If we choose to stay, we  will accept David Cameron’s renegotiation promise to support whatever Brussels considers necessary impositions to avoid disaster. That means cash. Lots of it.

As for immigration, we will abandon control of our borders and the right to say who stays.

Given a choice, most voters would accept a brief economic wobble in return for control over who can enter the UK.

We can dismiss the outrageous distortions peddled by Bank of England governor Mark Carney, who should know better, and IMF chief Christine Lagarde.

Mme Lagarde, an ambitious French politician and staunch Europhile, has already poked her nose into Britain’s affairs by predicting a “bad to very, very bad” recession if we leave.

She should be barred from doing so again in the run-up to referendum day next month.

Now pantomime villain Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, is threatening revenge if Britain dares to leave.

“Deserters will not be welcomed with open arms,” blusters the old soak.

“If the British were to say ‘no’ then community life would not continue as before. The UK would have to accept being considered as a third party, which won’t be handled gently.”

In fact nothing will be the same again, whichever way  we jump.

Big decisions will be swiftly unveiled on Greece, the euro and, above all, immigration — put on ice to avoid inflaming the Brexit vote.

As for David Cameron vetoing Turkey’s EU membership, forget it.

In any case, travel visas will have delivered the same result.

The genie is now out of the bottle. Anti-EU parties are thriving in once-staunch Holland and Austria.

France and Germany face elections next year, with breakaway parties surging in popularity.  Brussels, unnerved by signs of a right-wing surge in Poland and Hungary,  is threatening unspecified retaliation.

Whichever way we vote, Brussels cannot sort out this unholy mess.

If the polls are right, Britain will choose to remain a member of the European Union just as the ramshackle Grand Project begins to fall apart.