Your analogy also explains why Britain shouldn't be in the EU in the first place. People voted to join the EEC and then later on the terms of the agreement were

Your analogy also explains why Britain shouldn't be in the EU in the first place. People voted to join the EEC and then later on the terms of the agreement were changed as it morphed into the EU. There has never been an explicit democratic mandate to cede sovereignty to the united states of Europe. The current clusterfuck is a result of that.