I’m starting to hate the EU. But I will vote to stay in | George Monbiot

On jobs, health and wildlife, the European Union is often all that stands between us and unfettered corporate power

By instinct, like many on the left, I am a European. I recognise that many issues - perhaps most - can no longer be resolved only within our borders. Among them are grave threats to our welfare and our lives: climate change and the collapse of the living world; the spread of epidemics whose vectors are corporations (obesity, diabetes and diseases associated with smoking, alcohol and air pollution); the global wealth-grab by the very rich; antibiotic resistance; terrorism and conflict.

I recognise that the only legitimate corrective to transnational power is transnational democracy. So I want to believe; I want to belong. But it seems to me that all that is good about the European Union is being torn down, and all that is bad enhanced and amplified.