The Brits are just now figuring this out? Of course the EU wishes to and expects to swallow up control of all essential parts of government and commerce. I could see that a dozen years back, when they kept allowing big companies like Monsanto to hold monopolies and cobbled together patents.
Indeed, the EU is a paper tiger, just as most bureaucracies are. The UK is letting Brussels take jurisdiction while we saw how the EU quickly folded to accepting the illegal greek defaults and french increased debt.
Because the ruling Tories are being challenged by a third party (UKIP), the Tories must make conservative noises they would otherwise not even consider uttering.