Brexit Party pour moi. I don't want to leave the EU, but neither do I want to watch it subsume individual sovereign nations into subsidiaries of a supranational organisation that no-one in Europe asked for and on which they have not been asked their opinion, much less for their approval via a democratic vote. When we joined the Common Market, as is was then, we thought we were joining a trading bloc. The administrative arm of that bloc has now assumed all of the features of a sovereign state. It has its own head (of state), its own parliament, civil service, bank, Court, currency and police force. It negotiates its own treaties and is opening its own embassies. In fact, the only thing that a sovereign state has that the EU doesn't is a military and it is now busily working to correct that as I write. With the advent of the Euro it is now taking over monetary policy from the Eurozone states, control over interest rates and the money supply being largely governed by the European Central Bank. That process will be completed with a formal banking union in due course. That just leaves fiscal policy for the Eurozone states and we've recently seen the EU flex its muscles with Italy over its last budget and it already has Greece by the budgetary balls. Once the EU starts demanding harmonization of tax rates the game will be up. There simply won't be much else for member states to do, as the EU law machine churns out ever more tightly-drawn regulations.
As Mikhail Gorbachev said: "the most puzzling recent development in politics is the desire of Western politicians to re-create the Soviet Union in Western Europe". I say **** it. The EU should have a major policy re-think and come clean about precisely what its long-term intentions, or rather those of its un-elected Commission, really are...
