EU: Should the UK Leave or Stay?

[abaris]

Interesting, I was only 1 year old in 1994 so can't say on first hand experience, but from everything I've seen in the media and online, I thought the whole premise in the first place was that it was an economic union, and it was promised it would never be a political one. For instance they would never have a say in our laws, which they obviously do now.

Wow, you're young. I was already 31 back then. And my dream has always been a united Europe and on a Utopian note, a united world. That's what was (wrongly) offered to us in Austria when we were called to the ballots.

I was very much opposed to the expansion of 2004, simply because I was thinking that Eastern Europe wasn't ready to take that step. They had made a point of licking American boot at every given opportunity, so I thought, let's sit out the backclash of communism before taking them aboard. I never gave the UK much of a thought, to tell the truth. I simply assumed they would tag along at some point, seeing that they are no longer an empire. Just the same as every other European country. Mine has had just a bit longer to realize, we no longer have our empire.