Britain Should Put the EU Out of Its Misery

EU countries are on average less free than other countries with a comparable per capita income and level of development. Why should Britain submit to that?

by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
February 5, 2016

You may have heard of the “Brexit” – Britain’s opportunity to leave the EU via a referendum. As early as this June, British voters will be asked this question: “Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?”

The odds they will choose the latter greatly improved this week, with the United States slipping behind Great Britain to 11th place in the 2016 Global Index of Economic Freedom.

What is even more striking about the 2016 index released Monday (2/01) by the Heritage Foundation is the shockingly “unfree” state of the European Union.

What you have is a northern free-zone clustered around the UK (10th), Ireland (7th), the Netherlands (16th), and the Nordic-Baltic region of the old Hanseatic League, with Estonia (9th), then Switzerland (4) as ever near the top, and safely beyond the clutches of Brussels and regulatory asphyxiation.

Or put another way, it is the Protestant alliance that battled reactiona…