Wetaugust your response to my post has confirmed that you really do not understand what happens in the eu.
Eg no way in this world does the UK just have weight by itself. If you don't believe me see what the US has said about this, not to mention what China has said. I suspect you really need to read up on this. Weight is not just about the permanent security council but about trade.
Regarding visas 'why would you need it when you have passports'. Perhaps you have forgotten the days when it was necessary to get visas to go to each European country along with your passport. Bureaucratic nightmare. You often need visas as well as your passport to travel to many other countries.
I don't believe the instability thing is just scaremongering, look at what happened in history in the years before the eu and the years after (ie Prussian/ FR war, 1st WW, 2 WW). Now since the WW2 EU countries have not fought each other, it seems inconceivable. And that is not coincidental, it is because of the closer ties forged between our countries. The riots are partly to do with austerity, some imposed by the EU I'd agree and others to do with major issues in the different countries. You may know a bit about the total Greek taxation mess.
Have you seen what is happening in Ukraine, perhaps you are aware that Putin has similar interests in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The difference is that there is no way he could invade those countries. And why is that?
Now finally onto legislation, Again you do not understand how it works. So in a few short words.
The European council is made up if the governments of Europe, democratically elected by their citizens. They set the mandate and direction for eu policy, adopting conclusions which show the way they want the Commission to go. The Council also nominates the Commissioners every 5 years.
The commission is made up of civil servants as you know which draft legislation. But t's legislation does not just directly go into UK law, the Council (ie our government and others) and the European Parliament together amend and adopt the legislation. The EP are the MEPs that WE elect, which is why it is so damaging to vote for UKIP because this means we have far fewer MEPS actually working on the legislation for the UK since UKIP cannot be bothered to actually participate. The UK used to be really influential in the EP but has gradually lost its power because such a large proportion of its MEPs are UKIP! National parliaments also now have a scrutiny period for legislation so you are also incorrect on that.
You may ask, why do we need the EU to make the legislation in the first place? The question is do you want a million different types of plug socket across Europe? Or petrol station pumps? There are benefits to boring technical standardisation. When it comes to the environment, pollution can just as easily come to the uk through air pollution from the continent or through acid rain, or in the seas. Do you think it is actually possible to deal with air quality on a country by country basis??? If a company in the UK wants to make a car and sell it, it wants the biggest possible market for it, without customs tariffs etc. this is how it is now trading with the EU for businesses in the UK. Don't believe the hype that if we left we would magically never have to pay anything towards customs tariffs, trade barriers etc, it doesn't work like that.
Finally I don't think you can know what your family might want to do in the future, maybe your grandchild might be interested in working abroad. But in any case even if you don't want to do you really want to deny the opportunities to other peoples children's and row back on the freedom we have achieved?
The thing is there are so many issues or problems with the EU and things that should be changed but it really frustrates me that people are not focusing on the things which could be done and are just operating on the basis of total myths and misunderstandings about how it all works!
Leaving would lead to major disadvantages for the UK, financial and political, please please please read up a bit more and understand what you are advocating for!!!!