It's unclear. I'm not sure if he said something explicit either way. In his speech proposing a Council of Europe and a Unite States of Europe, he says that Great Britain and the British Commonwealth of Nations and others should be friends of the new Europe, but when the Council of Europe was first created, and Churchill was actively part of that, the UK became part too.

He also at one point proposed outright union between the UK and France.

The important thing to consider, with respect to his United States of Europe speech though, is that when Churchill spoke of this, the UK still had an empire - it was a super-state, though one in decline, and the Commonwealth still meant something more than a loose association. He was speaking from a position where the UK was already "spoken for" so to speak.

Yet over the years afterwards he was one of the driving forces of European integration, including for the UK, but of course he did not see how far it was going.

That's simply because UK Tories decided their euroskepticism prevented them from joining their natural allies in the EPP.

It's like Northen Irish people voting Sinn Fein were complaining that they don't actually sit in Westminster.

Bottom line, UK citizens are represented in the European Parliament, and have a say in EU legislation. If there is a majority in a democratic parliament, well, so be it, democracy works this way... and if the Conservative party decided not to join the EPP, that's the party's decision.

It's a logical fallacy to say that "the country's laws were decided by politicians the people did not elect.", when indeed they are elected by the people.

Actually, the commission is multi-party, split between mostly EPP (Christian Democrats and the like), PES (in which Labor is a member), and, yes, one British Conservative Commissioner.

The UK has zero members in the EPP because the conservatives decided to go it alone; they still have votes, they've just decided to form their own parliamentary bloc, the AECR.

Ironically, there is also a democratic deficit in the UK. The House of Lords is not elected at all, and the district system ensures that minority opinions do not get represented in the House of Commons. As a result, UKIP is far bigger in the Europarliament than in the House of Commons.

Nigel Farage. Who will stay in his position as MEP until the next reelection. And he probably gets paid in EUR.

It's not like the list is secret, if people choose to remain ignorant of who the MEPs are that's their own choice.