Watching the despicable way that Junker The Drunker and his Stasi-like lieutenants are treating Britain it will be a snowy day in July before I buy another German car...which I've been doing for years.
And as for traveling to Europe....been there,done that,the end!
They can't and don't.
But they don't
1. regarding the creation of EU rules - these are proposed by either one of the MEPs or one of the governments to the EU commission to investigate and prepare. The Eu parliament amends or votes on it and the rule has to be approved by the UK government leader (as well as the other 27 leaders) - and then it has to be amended/approved by the individual parliaments - they are given leeway in how they wish to implement.
To give an analogy - imagine if the US was really federal and every law passed in Congress had to be:
1. passed unanimously by every senator
2. interpreted by the state legislators and implemented as befits them
"foreign bureaucrats determining who's allowed to enter... and live in .. Britain" -- nothing of the sort - the Uk is not part of the Schengen - it opted out of that. The UK is only obliged - like every other country in the eu club - to allow free movement of EU NATIONALS - not residents, not guests. Also, EU citizens have a few weeks in which they can reside without a job and as per EU rules there are curbs on the welfare they can receive. The non-citizens cannot travel, reside or work without getting a UK tourist visa or residence permit or work permit