Adrian posted
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 15:23:03 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

No, we wanted to join a common market.

We joined exactly what we voted to join - a group of other European
nations who wanted freedom of movement, freedom of trade, freedom of
capital, freedom of goods between themselves.

Freedom of movement was not part of the deal then. That came later.


At that time, it was called
the European Community (not that there's much in a name).

It was called the European Economic Community (EEC) and almost
invariably referred to in the British media as the Common Market.

Then, once we were in, we HELPED to turn it into what it is today. Along
with every other member, the UK could easily have vetoed any membership
application from any country. The UK could easily have vetoed any major
changes to it. The UK chose not to.

Like all state power advocates, you're confusing the government of a
country with its people. *We*, the people, never made these choices
because we were never told explicitly what would be the outcome of
Maastricht 1992, and the later CEC expansion. In fact, we were
deliberately lied to. By the time we realised what had happened it was
too late.

Today the majority of people WITH an opinion want to LEAVE the EU.

Do they? Do you have any credible figures to support that?

I found the European parliament election results pretty persuasive.

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Les