And control of out armed forces is never going to be passed to Brussels or Germany. That I'm afraid is classic leave scaremongering.
I remember Heath telling us that the EU would never overrule laws made by our democratically elected Government. It now does.
I expect that if you'd told people that their right of habeas corpus, that had existed for centuries under English law, would be signed away by Theresa May when she accepted the European Arrest Warrant, they would gasp at you in disbelief.
I expect people would be amazed if you told them the EU would be stopping us deporting EU citizens at the end of the jail sentnces.
I expect people would be amazed if you told them that the UK would be hit with surprise 'one-off demands' for £1.6 million from the EU - which did happen and which we did pay.
And Cameron says Turkey will not join for 30 years, but the EU made Turkish an EU language last months and the ECJ has ruled that we must pay unemployment benefit to Turks and now we discover that there were negotiations between the UK and Turkey over the decision made by Merkel to offer visa-free access.
I am sorry folks but the 'Move along, nothing to see here' approach (or gaslighting as it's ore accurately termed) is just not cutting it any more. We are sleepwalking into a European Superstate while being reassured that it is not happening.
But unfortunately for those at the top, we are gradually waking up to wat is being done to us.
So, don't ever discount anything as 'that can't happen' or 'we won't accept that' because when you hand power over yourselves to a body like the EU do not be surprised if they use that power against you. They may coerce, or bribe or even deny you the levers of administering your country, as they could when they have overall control of the tax systems. You won't even notice it's happening.
An EU Army is quite feasible. Junckers wants it to 'enforce EU foreign policy'. These words should chill you to the core.And don't dismiss this as fear-mongering, consider it as the use of knowledge about the EU's activities and plan to work put the direction of travel - and not to like the way it's going.
The real security threat we're facing is isolation in a world with a resurgent and aggressive Russia (who has been clearly documented funding anti EU efforts ) and where we need better communication withsecurity forces across Europe to counter terrorism.
You really have bought the lie here that Putin is the bad guy.
The EU is an empire. All empires must expand. The EU will run out of near neighbours to suck into its vortex. It will have to look further afield. It is already paying millions of Euros every year to the Ukraine for 'development' purposes. The EU has already caused the fall of Ukraine's rather anti-EU Government and its replacement by a pro-EU Government. That is meddling.
It's even more dangerous because it is meddling in a country in Russia's backyard and grooming and wooing the Ukraine into the EU empire is, justifiably, angering Russia.
We'd be upset if Russia started wooing Scotland or Wales.
So at what point does Junckers start to employ this EU army that he has decreed is necessary to 'enforce EU foreign policy'?
So before painting Putin as the bad guy, pause to think what effect the EU is having within Europe and consider whether it may actually be a destabilising force rather than that nice pink fluffy organisation that the elite wants to sell to you. After all wars are very good for business.