Having others tell YOU what you can and cannot do

Perhaps I am just a naive American living here in England; however, can anyone in the UK please enlighten me on why your country wants to be affiliated with the European Union? And if so, name me one thing that it has done to enhance your country, other than not having to wait in long immigration lines because you have the same passport as everyone else in the EU. Can anyone enlighten me on why you want to give all your freedoms as individuals, all your customs, and how you just do things away to become one with the EU?

How can you want to have some person in Brussels, who reminds me of the little man behind the great voice in the Wizard of Oz, telling your plumbers or electricians what they can or cannot do? How can you want some person in Brussels telling you what kind of frigging bananas you can import; or whether your sausages or cheeses can be sold on the continent, what waters your fisherman can fish from; or where the clothes on your back can come from? You are Englishmen, Scotmen, Welshmen, etc., how can you sit back and just go with the flow?

Birdy has an excellent example of one more freedom that you have biting the dust. It's called EUROCRAP (the post, not the new law; although, it is a bunch of crap). It should bring every single beer or ale drinker up short.

I tell you what, you beautiful people of the UK. One of these days you will be driving on the right side of the road, because Brussels will dictate that it is not fair that you are not in alignment with the rest of the EU. And if that doesn't get your dander up...

I know what will....

Having to give up tea breaks just might finally do the trick.