Strength in numbers is what the EU sells versus individual Countries getting your sovereignty and independence back.
What England gained far exceeds what they lost.
I saw another article posted that says the EU has been a failure in terms of what it was expected to deliver when it was formed nearly 23 years ago.
If you go back to the mid-1970s....and wrote down the 25 best things that the EU could do....well, they’ve done those 25 things. In fact, they probably wrapped up that list about six to ten years ago.
So presently, they are on a list of things which don’t really have much support....yet they have to do something to show their existence....hence the reason they want to regulate the size of bananas, hair dryers, vacuum cleaners, toasters, etc. They also get into vast long debates about saving Greece....over and over and over. Or they get into debates about how to get the Ukraine into the EU in a way that would absolutely irk Putin and Russia. Or they invent 99 different ways to retool their military outside of NATO and hopefully dissolve NATO without people realizing it. Or they get into comical immigration debates and insist that hundreds of million of immigrants could arrive in Europe and each of the 28 countries could accept their “fair share”.
751 representatives sitting there and none of them report back to their country’s Prime Minister or their Parliament. You can ask any German to name some of their MP’s at the EU, and other than the chief of the delegation...no one can name a single guy. Elections every five years.....but when you vote...it’s for a party, not a named individual.
The sad thing is that they need some type of mechanism to keep the twenty-odd things working in some order. It’s nice to have one single currency. It’s nice to cross borders without having to wait 45 minutes in some line. It’s nice to have railway travel perform in an efficient manner. I’d hate to see a total reversal. But the EU has demonstrated one key thing over the past year....absolute refusal to reform itself. That’s a bad sign.