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Originally Posted by Hugh
I don't remember any one voting for Gordon Brown, or for John Major when he took over from MT.
Anyway, it's a straw man argument, as our elected MEPs vote on things - but you knew that....
You may find this informative
https://fullfact.org/europe/eu-facts...s-bureaucrats/ |
British MEPs are a small minority of the European parliament, which has no pan-European parties and can therefore have no pan-European election campaign. There is no means by which anyone can mount an election campaign based on any meaningful manifesto and it is impossible for anyone to pursue a coherent legislative programme via this Strasbourg-Brussels assembly.
There is no common body politic across Europe - no demos - and without that, you can't escape the fact that the parliament is using the votes of foreigners to over-ride the expressed wishes of the British people and their representatives in it. This is not the case in Westminster, of course, because regardless of regional and national differences we recognise Britishness as a political construct that unites us all.
That is why the European Parliament is undemocratic. Our demos is British, not European, and the European Parliament by its very nature acts against the democratic will of the British people.