I guess you're an advocate for leaving the EU then...?
Yeah. Although probably for the completely opposite reason than most opposed to the EU.
Farage trots out the "we signed up to a common market not a political, economic and social union" line regularly, and argues against "EU interference in domestic policy" all the time.
But at the same time he bangs the populist drum of complaining that the free movement of labour, freedom to site corporate HQ's anywhere in the union and pick your own tax rate, etc. is driving down wages, reducing tax take, worsening the conditions in which people live and work.
He doesn't seem to understand, or most likely can't admit, that it's the "common market" bit of the EU that causes the latter problems for most working people, and it's the "political interference" that's attempting to have at least a few minimum employment standards across the union that's the one tiny layer of protection being introduced.
For me the whole thing appears to have been set up with the express purpose of allowing business the freedom to pretty much do what it wants, providing an enormous shift in the power dynamic between corporations and the state.
A more democratic EU that was prepared to act in unison to resist that corporate power to better defend the standard of living of their electors might be worth having, but this one I could do without I think.
