Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:JonT was probably born after we joined the EU, so has nothing to compare with. That said, the 1960s and early 1970s had a lot of bad points as well as good. Some of that was due to recovering from fighting a very expensive war against the last rather less subtle attempt to create a federal Europe
The EU as we know it now didn't really come into being until the Maastricht Treaty in 1991, although it was a gradual process rather than a specific moment in time. The problem is, it's still work in progress and can only get worse. Until now, we've never had a vote on whether or not we wish to be a member of the EU. It seems to me that the arguments to remain are more about the advantages of the Common Market and nothing at all to do with the other stuff. It's a shame it's all or nothing.
If the vote on Thursday was to join the Common Market as originally put forward, I would vote for it. It's the Union of European Socialist Republics, otherwise known as the EU that I have a problem with.