As I understand it, the theory is that being part of a bigger gang makes one more powerful, gives one more influence and impact, makes one's voice more likely to be heard.
The problem with this theory is that if one joins a big gang whose views, plans, policies and vision do not match one's own, one is actually more likely to be relegated to the sidelines and ignored than to have one's voice heard and influence brought to bear.
As far as the UK's membership of the EU is concerned, these theories have actually become reality: To the point where Dave has found himself having to try to get a legally binding opt-out of future EU plans for 'ever closer union' because we fundamentally disagree with that publicly-stated direction.
So essentially Dave is campaigning for us to 'remain' in a gang whose aims and very raison d'être we fundamentally disagree with. And looking at this scenario from the other end of the telescope, this means, quite clearly, that the EU fundamentally disagrees with the UK on its future direction.
So we are putting forward our views in clear and direct opposition to the views of 27 other nation state members of the EU within a system that requires unanimity of agreement if our measures are to be adopted and our concerns have any influence at all.
Perhaps even more tellingly, 19 of the 28 are members of the Eurozone (i.e. have adopted the Euro as their single currency) and so have a vested interest - and a majority should it ever come to a vote - in promoting measures that are positive for the single currency - something that Dave is adamant we will never join. You don't have to be Henry Kissinger to realise that this is not a recipe for greater UK influence but instead a recipe for the consistent and continuing position wherein the UK and its views and concerns are completely ignored by the EU.
It is why none - not a single one - of the amendments to 72 EU laws we have put forward in the past 30 years has been adopted. And this situation is not likely to change anytime soon - look at the refusal of the EU to allow Dave to secure any meaningful reforms during his fruitless renegotiations earlier this year.
So whilst we are the second biggest net contributor to the EU and the Eurozone's biggest customer on the planet, our level of influence is negligible at best. And we're not just politely ignored, we're consistently sneered at by the unelected Eurocrats in Brussels, even though we pay for their massively over-inflated and totally unjustifiable gold plated salaries and pension pots, while they pass laws that we must adopt, without having any kind of democratic representation or ability to kick them out when we don't agree with what they're doing.
So the world's 5th largest economy, Europe's second largest economy, a member of the G7, the G20, founder member of the UN and NATO, the OECD, the World Trade Organisation, centre of the Commonwealth, finds itself, thanks to our EU membership, unable to make its own domestic laws, control its own borders or make its own trade deals outside the EU.
That's not 'stronger' that's pretty close to abject capitulation; almost 'surrender' to the EU, while we also get to pick up a large part of the bill for what is effectively a German-sponsored EU take-over of Europe. A take-over which is, incidentally, proving disastrous for almost every other nation in the EU except Germany. Who knew?
How the hell did we get to this - and why are Dave and our UK establishment trying to persuade us (using our own money FFS) to stay in this undemocratic and corrupt organisation with which we do not agree, rather than standing up for the interests of the country they're supposed to represent?
It's time we got out of the EU, got back to being Great Britain; able to control our own interests and, at the same time, get rid of these 'progressives' in our establishment who want us to be a small regional, bit-part player in the EU instead of one of the world's great nations.
Being 'IN' the EU does not make us 'Stronger', it makes us weaker and less influential on the world stage than we have been at any other time in our history.
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Thanks for reading.
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