* The EU was proposed to Europeans as simply a trading arrangement (the 'Common Market'), and nothing more, and so right from the start, when Britain (and all the other Eurozone countries) voted into it, they were lied to.
* The members of the European Commission - the top, leading body of the EU, which alone has the sole ability to propose laws and decide the EU's course of action - have never been elected by any of the European citizens. They also cannot be called to account or dismissed.
* When the EU proposed the Maastricht Treaty (which like every treaty they've ever proposed, gives them more power and authority over national governments) and Denmark voted no to it, even though they had repeatedly said that it wouldn't go through unless all countries agreed on it, they ignored the Danish and put it into law anyway.
* When they proposed the Nice Treaty, and the Irish voted no to it, they made them vote *again*, saying that the Irish just weren't brainwa-I mean, *educated* enough about the Treaty the first time around.
* When they called for the EU to have its own constitution (which would give it all the attributes of a fully fledged state, including its own flag, it's own anthem, it's own currency, it's own foreign/defence policies, it's own courts, it's own federal police force etc.), both the French and the Dutch voted no to it. Possibly they were less confident that they could get away with ignoring the democratic will this time, so they instead copied the documents almost word for word, and renamed it as the 'Lisbon Treaty'.
* This Lisbon Treaty was rejected by the Irish, and again, they made them take a second vote - because how dare the Irish have the *audacity* to say 'no' to them.
* At least 90% of the advisers that the European Commission refers to when creating legislation, are lobbyists and big corporations - where the EU's buildings are situated in Brussels are themselves surrounded by the offices of dozens of the biggest corporations and banks.
* At the height of the financial crisis in 2008, the Commission set up an 'expert group' to find solutions to the catastrophe. The chariman of the group was Jacques de Larosiere, a senior figure from the financial industry, and at least 4 of the group's 8 members had close links to the very financial corporations that caused the crisis in the first place. So the Commission gets advice on regulating the corrupt financial sector…from the corrupt financial sector.
* The EU wants to create a 'free trade agreement' with the US, called 'TTIP'. In case you haven't heard it about it, TTIP has been kept secret from everyone - even our own governments - and it's only thanks to Wikileaks that we know that it will remove the regulations on dangerous chemicals and GM foods, and give big corporations the power to sue our governments on anything they can claim 'affects their profits'. Everytime it's been put on the agenda in the European Parliament, they've made an excuse to postpone the vote on it (even breaking it's own rules to do so, see: youtube.com/watch?v=OW5rp_k8Sy0).
* The EU now enforces something called the 'European Stability Mechanism', which allows them to take literally as much money as they want to from European countries, whenever they want to - all while being immune from any type of scrutiny, challenge and judicial process (vid related).
* They now want to ban free speech as part of their updated Audiovisual Media Services Directive (to "protect children and tackle *hate speech* better": europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1873_en.htm)
* The EU's current top dog (or at least top figurehead), European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, has openly said that the EU will very soon have it's own army "to convey to Russia that we are serious", after years of saying that the EU having an army was just a crazy conspiracy theory.
* A large number of the top leaders in the EU are former Communists, which might explain why the structure/actions of the *European* Union are so similar to that other older *Union* in Russia.
* The EU takes/took 35 million pounds of British taxpayers' money, *every single day*. About 500 million of that is spent by the EU every year on it's own promotion, including fun parks (see: 'Mini-Europe'), elaborate, expensive interactive information centres (see: the 'Parliamentarium'), and cartoons/comics/material for public school curriculums, all for the purpose of indoctrin-I mean *educating* children about just how *wonderful* the EU is.