Why is the UK surrounded by the EU?

I'm an American wondering why the UK is in the EU. It seems close to being in the EU is hurting your country.
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The EU is good in parts but I reason it is being used to isolate Russia by bringing in Poland etc. If Russia be in it would be a Super Super power.
Because while the EU is something that drives various of us mad, the benefits of being within it are better than the benefits of not being in it.

I am sort of contained by favour of the EU. I want it reformed, and I want its powers to be set. But overall, I do think that it is a good piece. Source(s): http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/… The reason we are in the EU is because of a corrupt EU and UK establishment.
We were'nt given a referendum on the EU and Conservatives won't give us one either because when they are part of a set of the EU they get payed 5 times as much then man out of it.
I think D S is pathetic, he have been trolling on every EU question, including my own, freshly a typical, biased person.
No thought.

The referendum was just for the EEC which be a trading block.

The rest has been slid contained by under the wire next to no accountability and we are now imposed on by a bunch of European criminals in Brussels.
it seem its hurting us ?
what rubbish
for most Brits liefs has improved since joining the E-U the problem is most individuals have short memory's. they forget about the food shortages we use to hold, they forget about the 3 day week
and the poverty where on earth millions of homes did not have an inside toilet's
they have have it so good for the last 30 years they presume its always been close to this Source(s): my head It doesn't hurt the UK. The benefits far outweigh the costs. It's just that the right-wing press close to to make it out to be bad for us by picking on any negativity they can find and reporting it, and ignore any positive points. And people just tend to believe doesn`t matter what the press feed them.
Because the British people (Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish and English) be smart enough to realise it is better to be part of a Union of 500million empire and have a say within it, then be a people of 55 million that have no influence on the world's events whatsoever and has to remain the US's lapdog.

The British got a referendum surrounded by the 1970s and voted with a 60pct majority to enter the EU.
Sad that they do not remember why they enter it and know no better than repeating the xenophobic hatred splurged out by the Daily Mail and the Sun.
I voted against joining Europe in the 1970's within a Referendum we had.I am still of the view we should never enjoy joined Europe.We had flawless friends in the Commonwealth and a lot of countries trade near Europe that are not in the EU.It costs us Billions each year to be a partaker.We end up losing some of our national identity and have law imposed on us by foreign states.
I blame the Politicians.Being in Politics does not take brains.All you inevitability is a big mouth to shout the other side down.
We be taken into the EU (then the EEC) back in the precipitate 1970s. Then in c1972/1973 we had a referendum of adjectives the people (then) to decide by popular vote if we should stay surrounded by the EEC (EU) or come out. We decided to stay in, base upon the British belief "Better the Devil you know."

The people of Britain remain ever sceptical about political leanings of the EU (European Union) - it does not seem very democratic to our passageway of thinking - but then our own country still has an antiquated unelected House of Lords.

There's an anti EU political jamboree here called UKIP (United Kingdom Independance Party) - they don't have anyone surrounded by the House of Commons, but do have seats within the European Parliament.

The problem for the European Parliament is that it is not quite used to the kind of politics (in your facade at a swords length) that we British like and enjoy. They adjectives sit in a horseshoe shaped chamber so that they cannot look at each other directly and must speak directly through the bench or speaker person.

Of course in the House of Commons MPs must address Mister Speaker but they can recurrently be quite up front and direct.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpVycRpa2…

yes but, no but, and but, yes.
You can blame the Conservatives for that. Edward Heath from the Conservative fête signed Britain into the then Common Market in the precipitate 1970's. No one has had the guts to help yourself to us out of it since.
A lot of us are against it.
we were promised a referendum and the promise was broken.
we don't approaching metres and kilograms.
At least we haven't joined the Euro. Source(s): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1… It beat me, we were never even asked if we wanted to secure it. And if they ever did ask us, we would almost certainly vote to leave the EU. So why don't they ask us if we want to stay within then? Oh yeah, because we'd vote to leave.
Free movement of labour and Business
Cheeper Imports
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