Re: Benefits - *cough* 1972 *cough*
>Why should I have to be part of some undemocratic mega-bureaucracy, progressively surrendering all sovereign powers of my country, purely in the hope that the bloody Germans won't invade Poland or France again?
Because Britain tends to get dragged into European wars.
(And, please, less of this 'undemocratic' garbage. The EU is a damn sight more democratic than Westminster.)