[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Angua

Perhaps the UK electorate have been their own worse enemies in this respect, by electing people who do not want to work with other EU nations. Relegating the UK to the fringes of democratic decision making within the EU Parliament. Aided and abetted by a press that concentrates on these outsiders rather than those who are hard at work within the system.

Bit like voting for Sinn Fein and expecting them to change Westminster.

... and there's the rub. I've said several times before, we may all look alike but we don't think alike. Brits are the product of their environment, culture and history. Our legal and constitutional order is operated very differently from that in most of Europe and all of this frames what underlies our thoughts, actions and reactions.

Not all UK MEPs are of the Farage/Hannan kind; but the European MEPS, I sense, tend to isolate the UK MEPs, probably because none of them support federalisation. The other MEPs, who don't think like us, support federalisation, none the least because then their parliament trumps ours and everyone else's. Nothing democratic about that.