While most experts arguing for Britain to leave the European Union focus on issues of immigration and sovereignty, some have recently added other hot topics to the discussion: agriculture and economics.

Approximately 70 members of Farmers for Action (ffa) protested outside the European Commission in Belfast, Ireland, over its agriculture policy on August 24. A day earlier, the chief executive of pharmaceutical giant Bayer UK and Ireland said leaving the EU could have “positive economic consequences.”

ffa coordinator William Taylor highlighted the prospect of British farmers voting “no” in the upcoming EU membership referendum if Brussels did not act immediately to increase support levels to agriculture.

Director of the UK in a Changing Europe Initiative and professor of European Politics, Anand Menon, said, “I think it’s probably true to say that the ‘yes’ camp will focus on the rational economic arguments, whereas for the ‘no’ side the argument will be about having no control over our borders, losing our identity—it means that foreigners come over here and change our society.”

Menon’s claims may be weakening. Evidence of rational economic arguments for a British exit have been increasing. Dr. Alexander Moscho, chief executive of Bayer UK and Ireland, wrote, “Depending on who you believe, the impact could be disastrous or even positive. I believe it could also be neutral; if Britain can set up a working free-trade scheme with the EU, then the potential economic consequences might actually even be positive.”

Preliminary polls have been inconclusive, with results on both extremes. News of 8 million migrants now living in the United Kingdom, and a net annual migration record of 330,000 people this past year, appeals to the traditional “no” voters. Now, economic reasons may swing undecided voters to an exit.

The Trumpet has predicted Britain’s exit from the EU for more than 20 years. In 1956, Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Trumpet’s predecessor, the Plain Truth, predicted the scene unraveling presently. “Germany is the economic and military heart of Europe,” he wrote. “Probably Germany will lead and dominate the coming United States of Europe. But Britain will be no part of it” (emphasis added).

For more information on this pivotal Bible prophecy, watch Stephen Flurry’s Trumpet Daily program “America and Britain in Prophecy.”