Gabriel
Well-Known Member
I was (still am) an advocate of joining the EFTA as for me it resembles a near perfect European relationship. I wouldn't even be against a Confederal Europe, so long as there was no £500 million "meeting house" filled with pointless MEP's, but that representatives of each member nations elected Government went to each sovereign centre of politics i.e. Westminster, Holyrood, Bundestag, Palais Bourbon etc. to discuss issues related to trade, with no member seemingly more dominant over another.
A "United Nations" of European Nations rather than the proposed "United States of Europe". It mainly comes dow to the fact that one MEP supposedly represents the voices and opinions of roughly 700,000 people! The bigger the politics of the EU gets, the smaller the voices of their electorate.
Who knows what will eventually be? Past events suggest ever closer economic union and thus even greater political union, so it's likely not going to be for you MB.