Maybe I've been living on the moon for the last few decades, but I don't recall people taking to the streets to protest about Britain's membership of the European Union.

I do remember half a million people protesting about a ban on hunting which was about English foxes and foxhounds; a similar sized protest against austerity in Britain - several protests against British austerity and spending cuts - and at least one huge march against war in Iraq which I believe is in Asia. But a protest against the European Union or anything European? Nope, can't remember one.

Yet, in less than a month, we will all be asked whether or not we should remain in the European Union.

This is the referendum that no-one wanted apart from a small group of well-connected obsessives who don't know when to shut up and cannot tolerate the idea that other people may have a different view to them. Even the man who called the referendum, the Prime Minster, had to be forced to fire the starting gun.

This indifference tells me loud and clear that in general, after experiencing it for 43 years, the British public generally don't have a problem with being part of the European Union. If we did, then David Cameron would have had a long list of demands when he went earlier this year to the EU negotiating chamber and came back waving a piece of paper shouting about all he had won. Everyone would have known what was on that list, the entire country would have been waiting with bated breath to learn if he had succeeded and there would have been much discussion about whether he had done a good job or not.

Can you say now what he was negotiating about and what he won? Nor can I, because it wasn't about negotiating concessions from the EU, it was a public relations exercise aimed at persuading certain members of his own party - those Tories who can't see any point of view besides their own - that the European Union is a nice place to be.

It is so nice a place that nearly every European country not in the EU is clamouring to be in it and countries that straddle the continental border such as Turkey are doing their best to hide their non-European part so they can become members.

Of course we complain endlessly about the Bureaucrats of Brussels, but that doesn't mean that we hate being in Europe. We love complaining about everything, especially anything that involves politicians We complain endlessly about the local council and the Government, regardless of which party or parties control them, as much as we complain about the weather, not to mention data protection and health and safety regulations.

It takes 100,000 signatures on a petition for Parliament to even consider debating a subject, yet on the whim of a small group, the whole country is being asked to vote in a referendum at a cost more than £75 million of taxpayers' money when our schools, universities, hospitals, social care services, the potholes formerly known as roads, emergency services, judicial system and all the other public services are falling apart through lack of funding.

Leaving the European Union would have repercussions for decades to come on every person living in the UK and their children and grandchildren. It should only be done for a very good reason, and so far I have yet to see one that would convince me to abandon the known status quo and gamble the on the great unknown of being outside the European Union.

Until I see crowds of people marching to protest against the European Union, I will be voting to Remain. I would also vote for any law that would prevent any egocentric minority from subjecting us to another referendum.