A Loaded Question

Over at Conservative Home, Martin Sewell asks a loaded question:

Does a country with access to a national and international heritage of culturally sensitive Common Law still need to be tied to a European Standard? Is not the sub-text that we cannot be trusted to protect our own people’s rights without supra- national intellectual oversight?

Judging by recent performance, I'd say our leaders can be trusted, but giving that power over to a supra national body brings the words, pan, out of, fire, into or something like that.