This comes despite the Prime Minster and Chancellor’s relentless insistence that leaving the bloc will damage Britain’s trade prospects with other EU countries. Mr Kerber said: “Imposing trade barriers, imposing protectionist measures between our two countries or between the two political centres, the EU on the one hand and the UK on the other, would be a very, very foolish thing in the 21st Century.

“The BDI would urge politicians on both sides to come up with a trade regime that enables us to uphold and maintain the levels of trade we have.” Boris Johnson agreed with the dismissal and claimed EU countries would be “desperate” to trade with Britain if it severs ties with Brussels.

He said: “After the incessant doom-mongering of the In campaign, we now hear the truth from the ‘voice of German industry’, they would be desperate for free trade after we vote Leave. They would be damaging their own commercial interests if they didn’t. That’s why EU politicians would be banging down the door for a trade deal on Friday.”

Former cabinet minister and longtime Eurosceptic MP John Redwood has also joined in with claims that Cameron and Osborne are misleading the British public. He said: “They know they sell twice as many goods to us as we do to them. Who is going to want to wreck that?”

The returning diseases are;

1. Tuberculosis

2. Measles

3. Whooping Cough

4. Mumps

5. Scarlet Fever

6. Bubonic Plague

The near eradication of these diseases in the United States during the twentieth century was a remarkable accomplishment of American civilization. Until recently, most Americans believed these diseases were gone from our shores for good.

But a politicized public health system, and a rise in the subsidized migration into the United States, however, have combined to reverse a century of progress.

A physicist claims you will soon be able to go to loved ones for advice even after they die by keeping them alive through virtual reality. Dr Michio Kaku says technology will be available for people to download their personality to computer to create an avatar of themselves before they die.

The theory is the avatar will include that person’s memories and personality, and through artificial intelligence, people will be able to continue to communicate as they would have done in real-life. The avatar would be activated once a person was dead and would include a visual perception of the person that would be able to speak to relatives who are still alive.

In the future it could even be beamed from the computer as a hologram, or even in a physical three dimensional format as a robot that could interact with you. Dr Kaku said: “Imagine being able to speak to your loved one after they died, but it is possible if their personality has been downloaded onto computer as an avatar. You would be able to communicate with them as if they were still here. They would, in effect, become immortal.”

Google is not the only company suppressing content on the internet. Reddit has frequently been accused of banning postings on specific topics, and a recent report suggests that Facebook has been deleting conservative news stories from its newsfeed, a practice that might have a significant effect on public opinion – even on voting. Google, though, is currently the biggest bully on the block.

When Google's employees or algorithms decide to block our access to information about a news item, political candidate or business, opinions and votes can shift, reputations can be ruined and businesses can crash and burn. Because online censorship is entirely unregulated at the moment, victims have little or no recourse when they have been harmed.

Eventually, authorities will almost certainly have to step in, just as they did when credit bureaus were regulated in 1970. The alternative would be to allow a large corporation to wield an especially destructive kind of power that should be exercised with great restraint and should belong only to the public: the power to shame or exclude.

If Google were just another mom-and-pop shop with a sign saying "we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone," that would be one thing. But as the golden gateway to all knowledge, Google has rapidly become an essential in people's lives – nearly as essential as air or water. We don't let public utilities make arbitrary and secretive decisions about denying people services; we shouldn't let Google do so either.

Steinmeier justifies Germany’s aspiration to power by pointing to the disastrous results of US foreign policy, especially in the Middle East. “Germany did not seek its new role on the international stage,” he writes. “Rather, it emerged as a central player by remaining stable as the world around it changed. As the United States reeled from the effects of the Iraq war and the EU struggled through a series of crises, Germany held its ground.”

Speaking of the Iraq war, he states, “Not only did the Bush administration fail to reorder the region through force, but the political, economic, and soft power costs of this adventure undermined the United States' overall position.” He adds, “The illusion of a unipolar world faded.” Further on, he stresses, “Our historical experience has destroyed any belief in national exceptionalism — for any nation.”

There could not be a clearer rejection of the US claim, asserted since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, to be the “only world power.” Steinmeier, who enjoys considerable support in German big-business circles, speaks for the wing of the German elites who want greater political and military independence for German imperialism — especially from the United States.

Two years ago, the International Committee of the Fourth International warned in a statement: “German imperialism, which fought two wars with the US in the 20th century, is reviving its imperial ambitions. Having secured the dominant position in Western Europe, it is seeking to become a world power.” This is now being confirmed.

Given the fact that fears of a newly ascendant Germany have helped fuel the campaign for Brexit, its proponents should take heed of the opinions voiced in a new pan-European poll that does in fact reveal a growing sense of self-confidence in Germany.

According to the US-based Pew Research Center, 62 percent of Germans think their country has become more important over the past decade. That is a higher share than in any of the other EU countries polled. This new German confidence goes against an overall European trend: from France to Italy and Britain, those polled tend to see their respective countries' international influence shrinking. Germany's disconnect with its allies even stretches across the Atlantic, where 46 percent of Americans believe their country is now less powerful than a decade ago.

The Pew study group's director of global economic attitudes sees Germany as the exception to a generalized sense of loss of national power. Fact-based or not - it's a sentiment that unsurprisingly resonates with the "Britain First" as well as Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" campaigns.

The Justice Secretary made the historical comparison to Einstein after being asked why voters should not listen to the economic organisations warning about the impact of an Out vote. “I think the key thing here is to interrogate the assumptions that are made and to ask if these arguments are good,” Mr Gove said during an interview with LBC Radio.

“We have to be careful about historical comparisons, but Albert Einstein during the 1930s was denounced by the German authorities for being wrong and his theories were denounced and one of the reasons of course he was denounced was because he was Jewish. They got 100 German scientists in the pay of the government to say that he was wrong and Einstein said ‘Look, if I was wrong, one would have been enough.’”

He added: “The truth is that if you look at the quality of the analysis, if you look at the facts on the ground, you can come to an appropriate conclusion. And the appropriate conclusion, I think, all of us can come to is that with growth rates so low in Europe, with so many unemployed and with the nature of the single currency so damaging, freeing ourselves from that project can only strength our economy.”

Banks have doubled their holdings of their own states' debt since 2008, according to Standard and Poor's, despite plans over the past five years to cut back on the exposures. When banks invest heavily in one government’s debt, the banks become dependent on the government’s good performance, and the governments depend on the banks purchasing the debt.

If either one falters, the consequences can be dire for both. For example, in Greece, broken banks needed bailing out, but few other investors wanted to lend money to the Greek government. When the Greek government was bailed out and defaulted on its debts, the very banks it had tried to support were hit hardest, as they were the holders of that debt.

In the wake of the Greek crisis, banks and policymakers wanted to end that mutual dependence and reduce the chance of another doom loop developing. Yet figures from credit ratings agency Standard and Poor’s show that banks across the EU have been investing more heavily in government debt, increasing their exposures. Western European banks have more than doubled their holdings of their own governments’ debt from a low of €355 billion in September 2008 to €791 billion today.