Chris

... Both of which our own Parliament is perfectly competent to rule on, all by itself. It doesn't need hand-holding by a Brussels directive. The notion that (sensible) laws emanating from Brussels are a reason for staying in the EU is one of the greatest fallacies of all, because it presupposes that in the absence of such directives we would not have a mechanism for introducing such laws ourselves.

Of course, we do have such a mechanism. It is called the Houses of Parliament. Primacy in Parliament is with the House of Commons, whose members are directly elected by British voters: a benefit that should not be overlooked when comparing Westminster, whatever its faults, with the unelected, unaccountable European Commision.