The EU and the UK

I remember some years ago listening to a piece on BBC radio about how well funded UK pensions were compared to the rest of the EU and how the EU might want to take control of our pension funds to help fund the rest of Europe's. I was reminded of this by reading this piece on A Tangled Web, David Vance reports that:

"The EU seeks to grab control of Britain's vital North Sea oil and gas supplies under emergency plans revealed for the first time in Brussels yesterday.

EU leaders are demanding control of British energy reserves to prevent power blackouts that have left millions of eastern Europeans without heat in Arctic weather due to the Russian gas blockade. Euro-MPs are calling for the creation of a European gas reserve, made up of British and Dutch supplies, which member states can tap into in the event of any future shortage. The transfer of ownership would be enacted under secret powers written into the controversial Lisbon Treaty. It gives Europe the legal power to take over individual states’ supplies to “ensure security of energy supply in the Union”. Ultimate control over Britain’s vast natural gas and oil fields – by far the biggest resource within the EU – will fall to Brussels if the new treaty, which has already been ratified by Britain, is adopted throughout Europe."

David Vance gets it and correctly says:

"Under Labour, and under the auspices of the Lisbon Treaty, this will assuredly happen. We hand over our energy to keep Europe warm, even as we freeze. The sooner we get OUT of the EU tyranny the better."

The trouble is, I see no way out.