I've always been very clear in my belief that the EU is a nightmare, anti-democratic racket.

It tramples over nation states, replacing the Italian government with unelected place men and punishing the Greeks and the Irish with austerity packages that would leave even George Osborne's eyes watering.

In this final week, we have to gain independence from this disastrous experiment that has precipitated the rise of far-right parties on the Continent, wrecked entire economies and left southern Europe in particular with the worst unemployment since World War II.

I want to do everything I can to persuade people to leave while we have this one, single vote that's been available in my lifetime.

Yes, the EU is popular with the arts world. The Remain camp has issued a statement with a great big tick from many of Scotland's writers. But, seriously, to frame this debate in a cultural context is absolutely meaningless.

Yes, the EU has given us some of our own money back for pet artistic projects and is especially generous to creatives espousing the beauty of that unelected cabal. But the notion that we lose anything culturally by taking control of our country's affairs again is genuinely laughable.

My books and movies are exported all over Europe and they still will be if we wisely choose to to make a break for it.

Likewise, nobody's going to stop importing European books, movies, music or artwork any more than we'll stop watching American films or reading Japanese comic books if we're no longer signed up to this thing we were lured into by Ted Heath.

We live in an international market that's incredibly exciting and I find it enormously sinister when I see the Remain people gathering celebrities to push their ideals.

L Ron Hubbard did the same in the 1950s with his Operation Hollywood project, gathering glamorous names around his church to make it seem attractive and avoid us looking at the small print.

We're faced with something bigger than the arts or economics or, my God, even the leadership of the Conservative Party on June 23.

We on the Left were the first Eurosceptics and we're facing the most important vote in our lifetimes. A chance like this is never coming back and, make no mistake, voting Remain is not a vote for the status quo as you or I understand it.

The EU is being rapidly realigned as a state by itself with a president, a currency and very soon an army. We're heading into something that's not only going to be a monster, a politician's dream where the people with power are appointed not elected, but a total failure in every sense.

Europe is falling apart and the solution to this catastrophe is surely not more of the very same problem that kicked off the troubles. We need to get out while we still can and continue what's been good for us (like several progressive employment laws) through our democratic parliaments here in the UK.

Think about this: The reaction to all the autocracy from Brussels has caused Marine Le Pen to rise in France and Austria to come close to electing the most far-right leader in three-quarters of a century.

What will the Council of Ministers and the Commission look like very soon with such people appointing them? Who will be our unelected President when Juncker gets replaced by someone even more dreadful?

But the big question is: How will you get rid of them when we've had enough?

Mark Millar is a Coatbridge-born comic book writer and Hollywood film producer who lives full-time in Glasgow. His work is regularly adapted by Hollywood, including Wanted_,_ Kick-Ass_,_ Kingsman: The Secret Service and Civil War_, the most recent Captain America movie. His website is_ millarworld.tv.