Barry, I found this after a quick internet search. I do not know the website but from its tone its views would seem to chime with yours i.e. just ever so slightly right of centre
"It is doubtful if more than a handful of our legislators devoted the necessary time to digesting European legislation before they voted on it. Certainly our representative at Maastricht did not: "Now we've signed it - we had better read it," as the then Foreign Secretary (Douglas Hurd) reportedly said on 7 February 1992 - a frivolous remark perhaps, but, tragically, all too true".
http://www.eurofaq.freeuk.com/eurofaq/
Mark