On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:23:36 +0000, bert wrote:

We didn't enter the EU, we joined the Common Market

...which we then helped to turn into the EU.

Which we then failed to prevent turning into the EU

Have a read of this, going back to 1994.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...ean-elections-
explaining-the-mysterious-british-veto-john-lichfield-writes-the-first-of-
a-series-examining-issues-thrown-up-by-the-european-parliament-
campaign-1438345.html