Quote Originally Posted by Tiaexz View Post
I think it is more about wanting to tear up bilateral trade agreements with their own biggest exporter because some want to have one's cake and eat it too, then realise the irony when our partners can freely change regulations in discussions we are now not party to, nor can we longer opt-out, compromise or veto. We then have to grovel and have to follow said regulations regardless if we are to resume trade after our economic recovery plunges back into another depression.

I guess they think the solution would be gunboat diplomacy with the military equivalent of a little-boy with a pea-shooter.
For that reason, UKIP are insane. I don't like many of the EU's foreign and social policies (they're a touch too interventionist for my taste). But, on the whole, and certainly in the most important areas, the EU is unbelievably integral to our well-being.