I was going to vote reamin but

[Burney]

But my MP (lets leave aside the fact it's that useless **** Philip Davies) is one person in a room full of people with very different ideas about what britain is, also the boundaries populations of wards/boroughs etc isnt fairly weighted either. I'm sure Witney in Oxfordshire therefore has more of a say as their MP is also the PM, who is unelected. I simply dont see what we can gain by putting all our undemocratic eggs in one basket. And, if you've not noticed, we've got just as many systems of stymying dissent and mitigating the will of the people in this country.

But we have an effective party system that means that our representatives have power as part of a meaningful bloc. Indeed, most of us don't really vote for individuals, but for their parties, which means we can look at the manifesto and have a good idea what we're voting for and can kick the individual out if we don't like how he votes. No such power exists within the Commission. The individual is both impotent as an individual representative and at the same time unaccountable - and that total unaccountability is the key issue here, which is why I suspect you're dodging it.

You may not like how our lives are run. That's a fair point of view. I don't agree with you but I can respect your opinion. What I cannot respect is your decision to complain about that and then to vote for even less democratic control over the way our lives are run. That seems totally contradictory and perverse to me.