I think you can turn your argument on its head, at the inception of the common market do you think we would have voted for the United States of Europe, to be lead by whichever country has the headquarters, being thwarted by France from doing anything seen as beneficial to ourselves, following every agricultural rule that they could think up, but ignored by the rest of the community, ie Milk quotas, Neonicotinoids. Etc
We voted not to loose our rights as a country, probably failed but at least it was our right to vote and we did while we still could.
I fear another 10 years in it would have been seen as treason, by the grubby MEP”s