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I can understand what you are getting at Zulu and want to  agree.  However, the cold facts are that we are part of the international community, and for our true defence we now rely greatly on the USA, as does the whole of Europe as we have all done since 1945.  This country since then has failed to keep an entirely independant military force, dependant on American satellite technology and nuclear hardware.  Foreign policy is harnessed with Nato and the United Nations, with no country, not even the great USA, being able to act independantly from all others i.e. as with Iraq, Afganistan and the Middle East.

As for the legal situation, the European Union are attempting to harminise all European law, with the European Court supreme.  The British could of course withdraw from this arrangement, but it could well mean less legal protection for the average citizen.

The progress of hundreds of years to reach a far fairer, although not perfect, world cannot and should not be reversed on some shaky belief in a past world. That 'past' in fact produced great hardship for the working class, poor welfare, diabolical education, and the constant risk of war, famine, and death.

It is only one hundred years ago when David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill argued in the House of Commons against the Conservatives for a greatly increased budget for social reforms for 1909.  The Conservatives, considering the Anglo-German naval arms race, wanted eight Dreadnought battleships; " we want eight, we can't wait", whilst Lloyd George and Churchill wanted it cut by at least two to release more funds to give social care to the poor.

Do we really want a Europe were each nation is fighting for a 'place in the sun' with expensive empires regardless of the consequences for its citizens?

In my opinion we should just go forward and work to gether for a greater Europe at peace with itself.

but i feel i must mention the
Polish. Out of 12 drivers 2 or 3 are poles (they come & go) but they are friendly, hard working, make the effort to integrate & claim nothing, all they want to do is work.