> Why would we want to join the EU? Look at any chart that shows any useful economic metric or things like life expectancy of eastern/central European countrie

> Why would we want to join the EU? Look at any chart that shows any useful economic metric or things like life expectancy of eastern/central European countries before and after they joined the EU. It's almost to good to be true. > The level of life in EU is declining, while rising in Russia. That's quite easy when your GDP per capita is behind Trinidad & Tobago or even Cuba.