Reasons for EU withdrawal

I'm going to keep a running tally of reasons to withdraw from the EU (European Union) starting from today.

1) Corruption in the budget

For thirteen years, auditors have refused to sign off the EU budget. It beggars belief how little uproar this has caused. (link)

2) Lack of transparency

The EU have pushed a new measure to state that "documents" (i.e. anything that can be seen by someone making a Freedom of Information' request) as papers on the official register only. In other words, if you don't want anyone to see it, simply don't place it on the official register! (link)

3) Lack of democracy

Only one chamber in the EU has legislative initiative and that is the European Commission. Each member state's European commissioner is selected by the government. In other words, they are unelected. The unelected minister from Sweden - chosen by a government I cannot vote for or against unless I emigrate to Sweden - has more power over my life than the Englishman I voted for in the European elections last time. (link)


This is just to get started, I'll be keeping a regular update.