• I'd really like to agree but since the EU has existed these things have increased so why should we believe that will change?

  • The EU tends to be more egalitarian and socialist in scope, if only because most of the member states are.
    In any case, that certainly won't change if we leave (under present Conservative managed circumstances) but excesses may be curbed if we remain.

    I have a friend who works in the financial sector who reckons that when the Liberal Democrats shared power with the Tories, they restrained greatly what the Tories actually would have implemented had they ruled with a majority.