I never knew Clegg frequented NMA.
You think I'm Nick Clegg? aww thanks. unlike most daily failists, I don't see that as an insult
You say you're not conservative, and yet you're really sounding like one. Nick Clegg remark aside, your attack on van Rompuy sounded like that UKIP "WHO ARE YOU?" video (he was actually the Belgian Prime Minister, but of course, Belgium is a "non-country")
Whining about Britain "taking it in the arse" just shows how little you know. I'm not an economist, so I'm not going to argue that, but then clearly neither are you.
I'm looking at this politically, and I only see benefits from it. The Human Rights Act and European Courts protect our civil liberties, whereas before there were no codified rights, other than organic common law. By having the EU enforce these rights we are further protected by our own Act (unlike a certain US which happily ignores its own Bill of Rights (Guantamano) You know, we also wanted to create our own Guantamano Bay, but the Human Rights Act prevented it.
However, if it makes your patriotic mind feel any better, Parliament still remains sovereign, and can overturn or modify any law it wants, including the Human Rights Act, regardless of the EU. Technically, we can ignore any law put forward by the EU as well, but then that would undermine our membership.
We have our own representatives, democratically voted by the public, with a proportional voting system. I don't really see how you can complain after that, seeing as they're the ones who vote for the economic policies you apparently hate. The President of the European Council (Rompuy) is appointed by the Council, the Council comprising of democratically elected members of the government parties (in our case from the coalition parties) Besides, the President doesn't have that much power. Farage was just whining at him to prove his own xenophobia, oh and to make a point.