Quote Originally Posted by Adrian II View Post
So is your own government. Corruption is all the rage these days, it is not particular to the EU.

The EU and its powers were created by consent of the member states. Not one EU member state has sought to opt out of it yet. The EU has brought us peace and prosperity.

It has huge flaws, of course. These reflect the flaws in our own governing castes, nothing more, nothing less.

AII
I do not believe the EU has brought us peace and prosperity, it has been allowed to exist because of peace and prosperity. The EU is beginning to unravel now and populism and nationalism are rising because of the fall in prosperity.

As to "consent", the UK consented to a free trade block, and no party in the UK (before UKIP) campaigned on an anti-EU ticket since, we have not had any alternatives.