GERMANY is in a panic. France is rattled. Downing Street is close to full-scale meltdown.

Suddenly it seems Britain could be out of the European Union in just ten days with terrifying consequences — not for us but for the EU itself.

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Most Tories want to leave. But now polls show angry Labour voters are swinging heavily against their own party and backing Brexit.

Blunt-speaking Labour MP John Mann summed up the mood among millions of EU citizens, saying: “Europe isn’t working for working people.”

As the public mood grows increasingly hostile, the fear in Brussels is not that Britain would sink without THEM, but that the European Union cannot survive without US.

Having wrecked the household finances of 500million citizens with the catastrophic euro, this serially incompetent political machine is breaking apart at the seams.

Why else would German newspapers, prompted by ­German Chancellor Angela Merkel, start pleading with us to stay?

5 David Cameron and George Osborne claim every world expert supports Remain but business men like James Dyson and Lord Hamford shine a light on the truth Credit: Getty Images

David Cameron and George Osborne claim every world expert supports Remain. But listen to some real hands-on experts — such as JCB digger giant Lord Bamford and ­vacuum cleaner tycoon James Dyson, who have put their factories and their fortunes on the line by backing Brexit.

Sir James has a colourful word for the Eurocrat threats to punish the UK if we vote Out.

“Cobblers,” he says. “The EU would be committing commercial suicide.”

Do we want to float free and flourish — or lock ourselves into a plodding socialist monster at odds with 21st Century reality?

Lord Bamford agrees: “I am very confident we can stand on our own two feet.”

And billionaire George Soros told The Wall Street Journal: “If Britain leaves, it could unleash a general exodus and the disintegration of the European Union will become practically unavoidable.”

5 American billionaire George Soros said: 'If Britain leaves, it could unleash a general exodus and the disintegration of the European Union will become practically unavoidable' Credit: Getty Images

Barclays predicted the Pound would fall briefly before becoming Europe’s “safe haven” currency as the euro sank.

Bloomberg financial news agency forecasts contagion across Europe as increasingly angry voters turn on Brussels.

A Leave vote, it says, would incite “some of Europe’s richest economies to reconsider their relationship with the bloc.

“The Pound could soon end up rebounding relative to the euro.”

This referendum is not about Boris Johnson’s love life or a few million quid extra for the NHS. It is about

Britain’s future as a free, sovereign nation in control of its own affairs.

5 JCB boss Lord Bamford said Britain had 'little to fear' from leaving the European Union in a letter to his UK staff Credit: PA

Do we want to float free and flourish — or lock ourselves into a plodding socialist monster at odds with 21st Century reality?

If Europe is the future, where are its life-changing equivalents of Apple, Microsoft, Netflix and Amazon?

Where is its Steve Jobs, Bill Gates or Elon Musk?

While the iPhone alone has lifted millions out of poverty, the EU destroys subsistence farmers by dumping surpluses. Silicon Valley has created more global growth, communications and commerce than the entire continent of Europe.

Its disruptive innovations would have been throttled at birth in Europe — as France is now vainly attempting with Uber car-sharing.

In Brussels, “Anglo-Saxon enterprise” is a dirty word — a threat to jobs and job security.

That’s pretty rich from a job-destroying Goliath which has inflicted mass unemployment and economic misery across 28 member states.

We are witnessing the “burning building with no exits” predicted by William Hague. He was right about the inferno. But we do have an exit

Thanks to the euro, millions of young men and women in Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy may never work again. EU leaders are playing with fire. Indeed, the eurozone is already ablaze. Greece is finished. Italy is close behind.

When this Jerry-built temple to the grand EU Project collapses, every member state will be hurt, whether in the single currency or not.

5 German newspapers, prompted by ­German Chancellor Angela Merkel, have started pleading with us to stay Credit: Reuters

We are witnessing the “burning building with no exits” predicted by former Tory leader William Hague. He was right about the inferno. But we do have an exit.

Next week’s referendum offers a once-in-a-lifetime escape. Inexplicably, David Cameron wants us to slam the door shut.

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