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Zippy, in response to your (many) points:
1. I personally don't want 'free movement of people' in terms of jobs - all it does is a) take qualified people out of poorer areas and reduce wages in richer ones, starving the poorer ones of needed expertise and reducing wages elsewhere, b) floods richer nations with hordes of undocumentated unskilled labour (its need is, in my view greatly over-exaggerated) AND undesirables, many of whom work in the 'black encomony' and increase crime. Poor retirees can just up sticks from one nation and then sponge off another, as some eastern euorpeans do by bringing their older relative to the UK, who have never contributed £1 in taxes - at least our med retirees are rich.
Oh, and of course, encourages the incompetence or failings of on country to allow in, to flourish and then spread mayhem across their borders, extremists and terrorists.
2. See 1., but isn't entirely true, as we often see when certain nations discriminate against foreign workers adn firms of equal or better skills, e.g. skiing instructors in France or dolling out of government contracts to indigenous firms (oftne who are state subsidised) rather than UK bidders.
3. How would this be any different to what was before we joined, or other countries not in the EU enjoy now, that don't have to pay £Bns to belong to the club?
4. RHD cars are only available in large numbers in (other than the UK) Ireland, Cyprus (where mine came from) and Malta (no exports from there), the few that are sold elsewhere are probably in such low numbers as not to mention, perhaps for military personnel if British bases are 'drive on the left' (I suspect not though) as US ones are in the UK. Again, like any product, importation is available anywhere, and the only difference is trade barriers, which don't need be an EU member to reduce (Canada). Extra trade in such cars came about because UK import businesses saw an opportunity to make money out of surplus foreign stock, no different to buying something in a £ store, on ebay or Amazon sourced from abroad (and often outside the EU). My car was made in Japan, and yet is priced competively with EU-made makes and Mazda still makes a nice profit.
5. Mostly correct, but many goods still need to go through lots of hoops before being able to be sold, due to bureaucracy in the EU. Again, this would be no different if we just had a 'common market' free trade agreement.
6. At the expense of prices going up vastly in the UK for ordinary use, including being subsidised by other areas of telecoms, such as landlind line rentals. 3 years ago, my mobile phone per minute cost was 2/3rds what it is today; 5 years ago my landline tarrif (including line rental) was almost half. Who cares if you pay only £10 (or whatever) to use your phone abroad - why not just rent one or buy a disposable one like a rental car?
7. Again, this could be easily part of a free trade agreement, or at least not beyond the whit or parliament here to legislate (same for other EU nations) for such measures pertinent to work for anyone buying a service in that country, whether they live there or not.
8. And yet, we are still subserviant to China in terms of trade, with very little access over there, they copy lots of foreign goods and get away with it, and artifically reduce their exchange rate to boost trade (as the EU has done to benefit Germany at the expense of the southern EU nations). No EU-US agreement on free trade has been reached, and now the US is under Trump extracating themselves from existing agreements that they feel harms their ability to trade. Hardly a great example, especially as the EU bullies poor nations by its protectionsit ways, such as in agriculture, to protect inefficient French and southern European farmers and workers in socialist-led EU nations.
9. Some worthwhile things have been done (forcing better standards from outside the EU), but they've gone way too far, e.g. ErP, and again, most of this is just common sense things that could be done at inter-government level through diplomatic co-operation. Just look at the stupid rules now regarding vacuum cleaners and especially kettles ('reducing' power usage - look it up before making a rash reply).
10. The bureaucracy now has reduced trade - why couldn't it have stayed at 'Common Market'?
11. Debateable (see Wiki entry).
12. Again - how would this differ from anything a national government enshrined in law by their own work? If the people want it, they will ask.
13. See 12. We don't need external agencies to make our laws if we think they are worthwhile, and especially if we don't. Its why enegagelemnt in domestic politics has fallen across the EU, because the EU tells nations what to do. Why bother having national parliaments if they can't make laws themselves?
14. See 12 and 13.
15. See earlier points about markets and free trade agreements.
16. Its not that good - often products have a British label when they are 'sourced in the EU'.
17. See 12 and 13. Diplomatic co-operation still works between nations not in such 'clubs', and I would note that many EU nations actively flout EU environmental rules (and get away with it).
18. You mean foreigners can come from poorer EU nations with poor health care to get in FOC in the UK and other rich ones. Nice. This should only be on the basis of paying the difference between nations for genuine tourists who aren't trying it on.
19. Encouraging welfarism.
20. Sometimes on flimsy evidence and being held without charge for months, and yet we cannot pursue EU nationals who break the law when driving in the UK, or appear to adequately track terrorists (see 1).
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