Anti-Democratic Europhobia

I am no great lover of the ever-closer-union ambitions of the Europhiles myself, but I do have trouble sometimes understanding the logic of the Europhobes.  To a man and a woman they seem to take the line that having the fiscal and budgetary policies of Eurozone states fixed by Eurocrats controlled by Berlin and Paris would be anti-democratic and bad, and so it would; but then they go on to shout even louder that total political union with the fiscal and budgetary polices of all states controlled by a federal government elected by universal suffrage throughout the Eurozone would be far worse, the ultimate total-loss-of-sovereignty nightmare.  

Er, hang on a minute;  the reason why there isn't a cat-in-hell's chance of the Germans and the French agreeing to such a political union full-Monte anyway is because, far from robbing the people of their sovereignty, it would actually go some way to restoring it, making it harder for Berlin and Paris to run Europe as a duopoly as they more or less do now, and giving every European voter a direct vote for or against everything that any Eurocrat does.

Now, before you shout that the trouble with that idea is that it would be hard for voters in the smaller peripheral states to have the influence on central policies that the big boys would have, stop once and ask yourself whether that isn't a fundamental problem with democracy anyway - dictatorship of the majority; and then stop again and ask yourself whether you are for or against the union of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland with the United Kingdom. If you think it is right for the Scots to vote to elect the Westminster Parliament and Government within the full political, fiscal and budgetary union of the UK with certain powers devolved to them, why not ditto the whole UK relative to the parliament and government of a European Union?

The paradox demonstrates to me that the issue for most Europhobes is at heart nothing at all to do with democracy or sovereignty, it's just history and tribalism.  They are just proud Brits and full European political union would be just too much of a blow to their pride.  I have some sympathy with that sentiment, especially after another magnificent Last Night of the Proms last night; but when Scots say they are proud Scots and the Union is too much of a blow to their pride, we have to remember that what's sauce for the goose...