SO WHO BENEFITS FROM OUR INVOLVEMENT WITH THE EU?

Put simply, the EU is built to benefit its politicians, not nations or the public. On the outside, it looks democratic, but on the inside its bureaucracy is very un-democratic, and what's worse seems to view democracy as "outmoded". You'll also hear many Eurocrats say that they deal with things "that no common citizen could ever understand", and that we should leave them alone to do the job of administrating our lives.

That's not democracy, that's a police state, with the attitude of a dictatorship.

Another defining mark of EU bureaucracy is that it is designed to obfuscate and confuse people, so you just accept it. They rely on people's apathy to get what they want.

To give an example, there are 111,000 EU regulations, covering 97,000 pages of text. Any ideas on how many Ministers that have progressively signed our nations rights away have sat down, read, and UNDERSTOOD every single one of those regulations, or even half of those pages? I would guess NONE.

But they have signed treaties and made agreements based on them, because at the end of the day, THEY get a good deal. This isn't confined to the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats or Labour - they're all as compromised as each other to a greater or lesser degree, as the recent referendum vote showed.

Yes, there are decent civil servants in these parties, but if the politicians genuinely cared about our nation and its people any longer, ALL of them would have voted to have a referendum and let Great Britain have its say. Failing that, all of them would be repealing the 1972 European Communities Act as you read this.

If they were genuinely concerned, they'd have told their whips to stuff it, and would have ALL voted for a referendum. These politicians have broken the public trust, and shown that they are more loyal to their parties than the voting public that hire them and pay their wages.