@davidallengreen
You may recall I was a little left wing in years past 🙂
To be honest, I wasn't engaged enough with how our integration with the EU enabled. Perhaps this was partly to do with the media? Most channels here tended to portray it as the 'garlic police', ready to mandate the size of bananas.
Were our counterparts in other EU countries encouraged to engage more with the process? How did their media portray the EU?