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Thread #162232   Message #3863724
Posted By: Steve Shaw
01-Jul-17 - 07:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: Time to choose on June 8th-UK Elections
Subject: RE: BS: Time to choose on June 8th-UK Elections
"a totally unelected, corrupt, unaccountable, cosy little club"

All untrue. The EU is not totally unelected. It is certainly not totally unaccountable. As for totally corrupt, that is just nonsense. You may be able to point to some corrupt practices. As the EU is predicated on the rule of law, accusations of corruption in the EU strongly imply illegal practices for personal or national gain. So let's be having them. But the EU is far from being totally corrupt. And we have got elected representatives in Brussels, so the EU is not totally unelected. The EU is accountable to each and every one of its members. Any brexit deal, for example, must be agreed by all 27 members, not by a central unaccountable administration. The overwhelming amount of EU legislation is agreed by all the countries it applies to, just a very small minority of laws causing any dispute. Only five percent or less of EU legislation has ever been disputed by the UK, a long-time Eurosceptic member. You don't get that by being totally unaccountable. When you say stupid things like this, what price the rest of your unending, tedious, blustering verbiage?