//You make it sound like we were getting bullied and pushed about by the bigger boys…//
I made no such accusation, archi. But you fundamentally misunderstand. It isn’t what’s was done that I objected to; it wasn’t how it was done or presented. It was the fact that it could be done at all. I’ve no real concern what the EU did and did not do or whether or not it was to the UK’s advantage. I am ideologically opposed to the notion that any organisation can claim supremacy over the UK Parliament – which the EU does, as described in this declaration from the Lisbon Treaty:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A12008E%2FAFI%2FDCL%2F17
It’s very unfortunate that many supporters of the EU fail to grasp this. Instead they concentrate on the advantages of membership and the disadvantages of being outside. So long as EU Treaties and the ECJ claim this primacy I want the UK to have nothing to do with it, however good or bad it may be.
//…typical Nigel Farage schtick about us being the 'little people'.//
I made the decision in 1992 that I would vote to leave the EU if ever given the opportunity (which I never believed I would). At that time, Nigel Farage was 28 years old and not an active politician. Nothing he said or did then (particularly as I’d never heard of him) or since has influenced my decision in any way.
//That newly found so say 'control' citizens have now got - what's it being used for? Not much that I can see.//
Alas once again you completely miss the point. It isn’t about what the UK government has done or can do. It is about the fact that it can now make decisions without the threat of EU law taking precedence over them. That principle is of greater importance to me than a percentage point either way on the country's GDP.