Unless we leave, our democracy, our law-making powers and our sovereignty will continue to be salami-sliced away by the EU. Genuine reform is impossible: successive EU Presidents, senior officials and European Prime Ministers have confirmed there is no hope of Britain negotiating any opt-outs, or special treatment. As far as our ‘influence’ goes, we have very little anyway.
for limiting the welfare state, for example public funding for social services or social security, e.g. private care before state care