I'm hardly going to lament - to passionately regret or complain about - something I wish to keep. If I lament socialised medicine it's very unlikely I have soci

I'm hardly going to lament - to passionately regret or complain about - something I wish to keep. If I lament socialised medicine it's very unlikely I have socialised medicine as the solution to my passionate complaints and weeping... If I just want to fix clear problem areas I'm not going to lament the whole concept... Not really misinterpreting - the EU was very much a political integration project in 1974 when the UK joined the "common market", it just wasn't marketed to the public as such. For instance a common foreign policy was already mostly in place, as was "ever closer union", which would later become the problem phrase for the Tory party. Heath knew that. It was in all the documents from the very beginning. Many of the restraints of trade and labour focused measures were there from the very start too. Even the preceding Coal and Steel Community was built around merging the democracies.[1] One of the founding aims in the very first signed treaty was to transform Europe step by step to a unified single state. It also had those developing business interests - though the central bank isn't a real central bank of course. So in summary some has been clearly in favour of business, some has clearly not, and it's always been so. I'm not sure how you categorise it as weak democracy either - it has the problems with lobbying that every form of modern democracy has, but that's not uniquely EU. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Coal_and_Steel_Community https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Coal_and_Steel_Commun...