Oh, and I should have added that if the EU is all those things you say it is then the UK must shoulder a lot of the responsibility. It is not an "us and them" situation. We have been a major part of the EU since 1973 and if it was in anything like the state you suggest then we have helped to make the mess. Shitting on your partner's floor and then leaving others to clean up the mess is hardly the act of a decent country is it? But luckily, flawed as it is, it is nothing like the picture you paint. You have fallen for the EU smear campaign hook, line and sinker.