On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 09:57:03 +0000, Tim Streater wrote:

... the unelected Commission.

The commission might not be directly elected, but each commissioner
is appointed by the elected government of a member country.

It's still unelected

In the same way as the cabinet is.

Don't be silly. The cabinet is made up of elected MPs, each of whom may
be removed subsequently by the electorate.

At the end of parliament's fixed five-year term. B'sides, the cabinet can
- and often does - contain members of the Lords, too.

That is where our system scores: the electorate can get rid of any
politician it doesn't like. Oh, I was forgetting: except for MEPs,
who are elected using one of the ****ty continental systems - the PR
list system (which doesn't have by elections).

Short of murdering an incumbent, a Westminster by-election is not in
the gift of the electorate.

You do come up with some non-sequiturs, don't you.

I'm not the one who suggested byelections were a way to get shot of MPs.