Calvin Plummer
Vital Football Legend
There is a democratic deficit in the EU, though.
Almost uniquely in the world, the EU Parliament doesn’t and can’t propose legislation.
It can modify and amend and reject, but it cannot initiate new acts of parliament. Yet, bizarrely, the EU Parliament is the only machine within EU structures which has a direct claim to democratic accountability.
We have become so comfortable to this that we are blinded to its failings. Democracy here turned on its head. The civil service should operate as a moderating influence, safeguarding continuity of good governance while elected governments come and go. In the EU this can never happen, by its very intention, because there are no elected governments, there is no “coming and going”, there is just a permanent Commission and we have no direct role in putting it there or removing it.
I think that's what jbacsta was trying to say ;-)
Democracy is clearly overrated. It's a sop to idiots.