Of course we aren't able to establish free trade with China, and why on earth would we? I'd rather be negotiating as part of a larger bloc, otherwise we would get fleeced at the negotiating table with China knowing any deal was more important to us than the other way round given the size of the...
http://money.cnn.com/news/economy/world_economies_gdp/
As part of the EU, we are somewhere between the US and China. On our own, our economy is around a sixth the size of the US and a quarter of China.
Perhaps the worst thing the pro-EU camp have done is put fluffy-haired, unprincipled, VI Form-esque politico, Nick Clegg up against Nigel Farage.
Farage is clearly quite good at what he does right now, and Clegg isn't. It'll be interesting to see what happens when the pro-EU wing of...