I agree. And I think it was wrong for the UK to end up as part of the EU, as opposed to a more limited "common market", without at least one of the successive

I agree. And I think it was wrong for the UK to end up as part of the EU, as opposed to a more limited "common market", without at least one of the successive governments which signed up to additional treaties demonstrating such general consensus. That was part of the reason why it was so easy for the "leave" side to portray the EU as a hostile unaccountable force.