But what if what is best for us is actually what the EU tells us, and we're just being stubborn for the sake of it?
For example, tighter controls on banking or corporations making tiny tax contributions. Perhaps the UK might want it to protect our precious banking businesses, but would it not be better for all if there were tighter regs?
It's just one example, but it's a recent and very true one. To put it closer to home, and this depends on where you sit on this one, but it's like Labour voting to get rid of Trident but the Tories wanting it.