1. Became known by its current style in 1993, when Maastricht was signed and the keys to the
UK and frankly everywhere else in Europe were handed over to new management in Brussels.
What started out as an innocent economic adventure, through the 1980s, slowly turned into a nightmare political descent as it became apparent that - lets be crude and frank -
France and
Germany did want a union in which they couldn't and didn't have DIRECT control over.
2. More recently things have become more serious and sinister with firstly the Treaty of Nice and now the blueprint for a country called Europe with its own constitution.
Frankly the United Kingdom, should go a step further and vote on membership not a
pathetic federalist vision of a constitution for a whole continent of countless races, languages and cultures that simply don't and won't ever fully integrate.
Home rule for
Britain - God Save our Head of State, the
Queen!
"a scary vision of the future : Malta, Finland, Lithuania,
Ireland,
Belgium and Cyprus all with the same currency, Parliament and
law to uphold - oh shit, thats NOW!"