Freedom....mmmm
Over 20,000 EU rules, regulations and statutory powers overlay, IMO the best Government and Rule of Law in the World (I posted a link last year, by year, the number of new regs handed down to us).....why?....because EU officials needed to bind 28 countries together, then invented a new Court System to oversee their zealous march to World Domination.
Abu Hamza-the-hook preached his disgusting brand of anti-West hatred in the streets of Finchley.....and we could do nothing about it......how much blood is on the hands of the EU-technocrats?, will they ever be taken to court, jailed even for complicity in innocent lives lost to Hamza's disciples?
The answer is an emphatic NO, because you cannot make a nice multi-cultural omelette without smashing a few eggs....they don't care how many die....just like Stalin who sent millions to their death purely for criticism of his view of World Power.
Freedom ......maybe none of us are ever free unless you adopt the mantra of Freeman On The Land.....but there are degrees of Freedom.....and the EU is on a par with all the other dictatorships......Egypt locking up all their Gays, Turkey locking up all that oppose Erdogan, Venezuala where there are no drugs in the hospitals or food in the stores, ISIL where they sell slaves and boil Christians, Burma where they torch the houses of 500,000 Muslims.....even the USA where the Police shoot 10s of thousands of unarmed citizens every year for....well, nothing really "I thought he had a gun and he was black"
Freedom is a relevant concept.....and the EU ain't it.....at least if it goes tits-up after 2019, we can sit here debating Party Policy rather some 3rd party Control-freak.