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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Rubbish and you know it. We voted for a small percentage of MEPs and ours don't want federalisation and domination of the European Parliament over ours. We look like them but don't think like them.
As to your question - what's the current situation got to do with my point about their drive to federalisation? The MEPs are right behind the EC's game.
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I do not believe what I said is rubbish so please don't suggest that I know it is. The UK delegates some responsibilities to the EU as per the treaties that successive governments that we elected signed up to. The EU parliament votes for new EU laws alongside the EU Council which votes sometimes on qualified majority voting and sometimes requiring unanimity. However, the EU can only create new laws on the principle of subsidiarity, hence my asking for examples of the EU parliament overruling the UK on this principle.
Even the UK government says that parliament has always been sovereign -
https://assets.publishing.service.go...the_EU_Web.pdf
On the subject of federalisation, a certain David Cameron got us an opt out anyway - see section C.1 -
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-cont...01.0001.01.ENG