On 30/06/2018 15:28, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Tim Streater wrote:
A chimera. I would like to remove the present government and replace it
with people who don't put internal politics before the good of the
country, but I can't.

You can at the next election. That's the difference.

Whereas after the next EUParl elections, there will be the same
unelected commissioners, and broadly the same MEPs, elected on their
****ty list system.

How do you think prospective MPs are chosen in the UK? By the voters in
that constituency?

Do we vote in our civil service?

And how about the H of L? Very democratic, that.

Giving the population the chance to elect absolutely everyone does not
guarantee getting the best people for the job.

It may not have occurred to you, but giving anyone a job solely on their
political beliefs matching yours may be a good thing to help keep your job
secure, but may well not be in the best interests of all.


In any case, the EU can only pass laws that affect the UK in those areas
that the UK has agreed to allow it to and the 'unelected' (more
accurately indirectly elected) members of the EU Commission may propose
laws, but they cannot pass them. They have to be approved by the EU
Council, on which the UK is represented and where the UK has supported
95% of all proposals since 1999 and opposed just 2%, and the EU
Parliament. This article discusses the process in detail:

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/20...d-bureaucrats/

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Colin Bignell