With the date of the EU Referendum on 23 June officially confirmed, both the 'stay' and 'leave' camps have upped their warnings and rhetoric.
This is nothing new - over the last few years the pressure has been growing for each side to make its case, including dire warnings about the chaos and devastation that could take place if we do - or don't - leave.
As the cover of the latest issue of Private Eye makes clear - some arguments have been a little dramatic:
Private Eye's latest issue
From a risk to Britain's fish and viewing Netflix if we leave, to a threat of sex attacks and national security if we stay, here are the most extreme arguments made by each side:
The most extreme EU vote arguments
IF WE LEAVE... we risk our national security(01 of08)
"Leaving Europe would threaten our economic and our national security," said Prime Minister David Cameron in his announcement of the 23 June referendum. (credit:Alastair Grant/AP)
IF WE STAY... we risk our national security(02 of08)
Staying in the EU will fuel extremism and make the UK more vulnerable to Paris-style terrorist attacks, according to Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith.
Smith told the BBC migration would be to blame: "This open border does not allow us to check and control people that may come and spend time. We've seen what happened in Paris where they spent ages planning and plotting so who's to say it's not beyond the wit of man that those might already be thinking about that." (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Smith told the BBC migration would be to blame: "This open border does not allow us to check and control people that may come and spend time. We've seen what happened in Paris where they spent ages planning and plotting so who's to say it's not beyond the wit of man that those might already be thinking about that." (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
IF WE LEAVE... we risk the air we breathe(03 of08)
A group of the UK's most eminent naturalists say pulling out of the EU would encourage politicians to tear up decades of environmental protections established through the union. Being in the EU has allowed us to agree politics that have improved our quality of life, "including the air we breathe, the seas we fish in, and have protected the wildlife which crosses national boundaries,” the academics and conservation experts wrote in a letter to Environment Secretary Liz Truss. (credit:Digital Vision. via Getty Images)
IF WE STAY... we risk our credentials(04 of08)
Britain's democracy has "stood the test of time," said Justice secretary Michael Gove, declaring his support for Britain leaving the EU. "We showed the world what a free people could achieve if they were allowed to govern themselves," he claimed, though the NHS, establishing trial by jury and other innovations.
"By way of contrast, the European Union, despite the undoubted idealism of its founders and the good intentions of so many leaders, has proved a failure on so many fronts. The euro has created economic misery for Europe’s poorest people. European Union regulation has entrenched mass unemployment. EU immigration policies have encouraged people traffickers and brought desperate refugee camps to our borders." We must declare our independence and "like the Americans [who] never looked back," he said. (credit:WPA Pool via Getty Images)
"By way of contrast, the European Union, despite the undoubted idealism of its founders and the good intentions of so many leaders, has proved a failure on so many fronts. The euro has created economic misery for Europe’s poorest people. European Union regulation has entrenched mass unemployment. EU immigration policies have encouraged people traffickers and brought desperate refugee camps to our borders." We must declare our independence and "like the Americans [who] never looked back," he said. (credit:WPA Pool via Getty Images)
IF WE LEAVE... we risk Netflix and travel(05 of08)
In an attempt to prevent Brexit, the European Commission passed a law to give Europeans the freedom to travel and access their internet services like Netflix and Amazon Prime. Perhaps it will lead to a higher level of acceptance among some Euroskeptics,” Günther Oettinger, the Netflix commissioner for the digital single market said. There could be a risk this benefit would be lost if Britain left the union. (credit:spike55151/Flickr)
IF WE STAY... we risk more Cologne-style attacks(06 of08)
Nigel Farage told LBC that the sex attacks that shook Cologne on New Year's Eve will happen in the UK. Hundreds of men attacked women in the city's streets, and it was initially claimed that many were migrants and asylum seekers, and the incident was used to support calls to reduce the number of refugees in Europe. But it was later revealed that only three out of 58 men arrested were refugees, although many were migrants from Algeria and Morocco. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
IF WE LEAVE... we risk three million jobs(07 of08)
In 2014, an official Treasury analysis suggested more than three million jobs could be at risk if Britain leaves the European Union, although the figures have been widely questioned. Calculations released by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, claimed that 3.3 million jobs are connected to Britain's membership. (credit:LEON NEAL via Getty Images)
IF WE LEAVE... we risk the UK's aircraft industry(08 of08)
Welsh politicians have warned that European rivals will push to take manufacturing business out of Wales if the UK leaves the EU. They warn that work from companies like Airbus, which has its plane wings assembled in Wales facility, could be snatched away by other countries. "Let us not kid ourselves: if we think that they would not push harder for that work and make the case about all the difficulties of us being outside the European Union, we are naive in the extreme," said Alyn & Deeside Labour MP Mark Tami. (credit:Joe Giddens/PA Wire)