Should UK join the EU

It may come as a shock to discover that the UK joined the EEC (as it was then) in 1973. So, the UK has been a member for 35 years! What more, the UK, having poured scorn on the EEC when it was founded in 1955-57, soon started begging to be let in, only to have its first two applications vetoed by France (in 1963 and again in 1967).