Are the British ruled by a foreign power? How is this?
The European Union has many problems and most of all - if not all - are caused by national governments and parties.
If anything goes wrong it is always the Union taht is blamed for it.
One example is the water supply - the Union was ordered by the national governemnts to make a regulation for that including the privatization. There had been at least two milestone reports agreed by the national governemnts before it went into public. Then, when the people showed that they were uneasy with a new regulation, all over sudden the national goverment was against it too (means had always been against it) and promised to stop it. That is the way things are going.

As stated above, if the Brits get happy without the Union, that is alright with me. They should just stop bothering the rest.