It seems to me that what the EU want is to charge import duties on our stuff and expect us to accept their stuff tariff free.

Mind you, they could level the same criticism at us?

I don't see why "Trade agreements" are needed, a simple agreement to trade should be all it takes. We, (as the general public) don't need trade agreements to buy things, we choose which businesses we wish to patronise.

I've never understood why anyone would think that a massive, ever increasing bureaucracy like the EU was a good idea. I would have thought that a massive reduction in bureaucracy was a better idea.

Why does anyone need to "pay in"? All it seems to do is to feed the insatiable beast? If a country "gets something out of the EU", that means someone else has paid in to it. What for? Why pay in to such a scheme? It's not good business to continue to pay in to something that's just a drain on finances with little or no return.