Currency issues aside, everying I've read dave me the impression that the UK will enjoy very little benefit - and shoulder a great deal of burden - by joining the EU. These were rather conservative, oh-for-the-good-olde-days publications alarmed at all the changes but surely there must have been a grain of truth there. Is it true that the UK will lose more than it gains? If so, why join? I've been perplexed by this for quite a while.