EU Serf has an article on why the EU is unreformable.
The main crux of the argument is that the European Federation is political, will do whatever it can to perpetuate its own existence and that, in a nutshell, they want something that we don’t.
Can’t argue with it really. The main problem with the concept of the European Federation is that popular and enduring unions are between parties that have something in common. Eastern Europe is different to Western Europe. Northern Europe is different to Southern Europe. The UK is all on its own being different to the rest of the continent. Half of Europe uses Napoleonic Law, the other half doesn’t. The UK has a legal system that doesn’t fit in with the rest of the continent. Eastern Europe is poor, Western Europe is relatively wealthy. Northern Europe has a different work ethic to Southern Europe. But most importantly, there is no single European identity that binds the member states of the federation together. The USA is equally as diverse as Europe but they have a national identity to bind the states together. The European Federation doesn’t have this, nor will it ever have one – there’s too much history, too many disagreements and too much diversity.
I’m 40 this year and have never had any kind of vote on this issue, my parents did but that was a vote on membership of the Common Market which didn’t actually look like a terrible idea at the time.
Basically we’ve been completely hoodwinked by successive British governments and the EU itself.
As far as I can see there’s one way out of the agreements the UK government have made and that’s to dissolve the Union and go our own way.