Benzin wrote:I like the whole thing about EU laws, as if the UK couldn't actually veto any decision since all members have to vote something through... Like if the UK didn't want Turkey to join, they could say no and they wouldn't be able to...
Always baffled me that point, but at least we can have straight bananas eh?
The criticisms are bizarre. The EU commission (all of them are appointed by democratically elected people) come up with laws and then the democratically elected (by proportional representation) EU Parliament vote on them. For major issues (like other countries joining) all existing members have a veto.
For some reason that is all seen as a terrible thing and people would rather have a system where MPs are elected via First Past the Post, a House of Lords (containing a mix of appointed peers, hereditary peers and Church of England Bishops) scrutinises it and then finally a hereditary monarch signs the laws off.
Neither system is perfect (no governmental system is) but I know which one I prefer by a long long way.