Conundrum - why do people think EU is a good thing?

BREXIT – When I said to folk that EU builds regulations that favour the Global Corporates and squeeze out innovative start-ups, they nod "yes, it's not perfect". It's the same if I rant about the interpretation of ECHR policies which prevent British free speech e.g. the lady who read out the name of soldiers who died in the Iraq war in front of the Cenotaph. This was in the ancient British tradition, yet is now against the law .  Absolute rubbish! "Yes," they sigh. Yet they still want to stay with EU  It destroys economic growth.  And freedom of speech. Yet no-one can tell me a reason why they want to stay. 

They attribute nasty motives to people they know nothing about.

It's quite normal for pro-EU folk to castigate Nigel Farage for his poster of Syrians marching through Slovenia.  Visually, they resembled the unemployed Jarrow Marchers in the 1920s from the North-East to London. The news reports showed better-dressed, yet worse-mannered men. Definitely nothing like refugees helping their families while lugging household goods.  No.  These were male migrants going on ahead. Leaving family behind to come on later, once they'd got themselves established. Quite why pro-EU folk think they're more 'virtuous' than those of us who look carefully is a mystery.

Youngsters talk about the ability to travel through and move around Europe at will. They've been misinformed - back when I was a teenager in the 1960s you could do that. Ok, you needed medical insurance, and enough money for train-fares and food, plus carrying your tent on your back.  So, are they saying they want food, habitation, travel and medical assistance, gratis free?  If that's what the EU gives, then it's wasting my money.

Don't think I only blame the EU. There's an unwelcome tendency for Global elites to influence undesirable changes in my country.  I have problems with the way English Law has been interpreted over the years.  Particularly in the area of people's reaction to threats to their family.  "Reasonable Force" has lost any connection with the naturally expected behaviour of 30 years ago.  An Englishman's home was his castle – wasn't it?  If burglars invade your house, firing a shotgun in their direction was 'par for the course'.  Until Tony Martin was found guilty of murder.  That should have been Manslaughter.

There's been a similar 'fast-track' change in the elite's expectations of behaviour.   You're supposed to be able to find the right words to explain why your life is much less worth living than it used to be, without talking about immigrants, incomers, strangers, overcrowding, job-insecurity, lack of housing, and lonliness as all your friends and relatives move elsewhere. (Otherwise the likes of Gordon Brown – who are supposed to have your interests at heart – will call you a 'bigot'.)

Unfortunately, Cameron could talk-the-talk of social conservatism, but didn't understand in the slightest what it meant.  Let's hope Theresa May understands better.

Why do people support the EU organisation that they regard as doing bad things?