The fact a Belgian MEP is stepping in as a principal anti-Farage voice, punchily filling a little bit of the space vacated by the two main parties, is quite the indictment.https://twitter.com/guyverhofstadt/status/1127564798298918912 …
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Have you not seen the bbc documentary? They drink wine and dip chips in mayonnaise whilst taking heart tablets!
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Out of interest, Julia, what do radio presenters who go to work at the crack of dawn actually *do* that is of any use?
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Don’t they help make all those laws that many in Britain say should be made in Westminster?
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That's the Commission. The ones that we don't elect.
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Tired old lie. The Commission just writes the proposal. MEPs can do with it whatever they agree on doing with it.
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The problem is that
#Remoaners have absolutely NO idea how the EU works! You think it is like our Parliament where an MP can make a difference. The whole EU shambles is run by the unelected Commission who propose legislation & regulations & then MEPs are allowed to for vote it! - 1 more reply
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They provide cover. They are allowed to handle small crimes so the big criminals are safe to do the big crimes. I'm sure there is a mafia term for it but I can't think what it is.
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Vote in our interests, approve or veto legislation.
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Nooo...they say 'yes or no' and that's it. They vote completely in their own interests, depending on what the current stitch up is. Its certainly not 'democracy' by any stretch of the imagination.
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Well they participate in cracking documentaries on BBC4, which was probably worth a couple of percentage points to the Brexit party
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You cant have it both ways. Either westminster is currently impotent (ergo wasting time) and brussels calls the shots, or vice versa.
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Woulsd you ask what the congressmen in US. house of representatives do in case of gridlock?
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They are supposed to support the UK's interests. Alas fckwits like you and Farage don't seem to understand the concept of nations working together to achieve a common good.
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They have a keyboard with 2 keys, a "Y" and a "N" A piece of EU legislation flashes up on a screen in front them and they have 5 seconds to press the Y or N keys. A bit like
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You mean they dont have to troop through the lobbies cos thats wot was done 300 years ago. Gasp at the necrophilia deficit.
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Why would you want a system that rushes through legislation? The physical act of getting off your arse and walking through a lobby to vote adds transparancy and allows time to think. It also prevents a rediculous churn of legislation no one reads.
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Im embarrassed for you if you think the walking through the lobbies bit is what slows legislation down.
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