re: bubblyrat
The Campaign For An English Parliament ( http://www.thecep.org.uk ) is an excellent organisation that help demonstrate how unfairly the english are treated in the union. And whilst we are on the subject of lack of english representation in europe, how about the lack of english invlovement in the british-irish council. Go to the following link and spot the missing nation.

http://www3.british-irishcouncil.org/member/membermain.asp

I'll give you a clue it begins with "e" and it is not "estonia". If i remember correctly there was a delibrate attempt to make no mention of england in the council's constitution, unlike the other coountries. But then my memory isn't was it was. i think... or was it? Can't remember really...