Mark Carroll's Journal

I think that's a pretty static view. Ideally the question would be of moving power from the (sort of) democratic government of Westminster to a democratic EU government. Yes, the national level would lose power, and votes would be diluted, but in exchange you'd be a citizen in a greater polity, one better able to make decisions good for all Europeans.

So it wouldn't be a theft of public rights, it'd be moving and consolidating those rights at a higher level, hopefully with popular approval first.

Fundamentally it's whether you stick to seeing yourself as British, French, Polish first, or move to seeing yourselves as Europeans.

Of course, it'd help if the EU were more democratic and less a coalition of governments, but the fundamental problem seems to be that the citizens of European countries don't want to see themselves and each other as Europeans.