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Sorry James but wrong again. She can prorogue parliament, which shuts down the House of Commons and prevents any MP from going to it. That power was renewed again in 2014 by parliament since it's a desirable power in some situations and is also used to shut down each parliament to make way...

I've already explained, to promote the harmonisation of the member countries towards union, by agreement with those countries. They and their predecessors have been very successful in that, guiding an ever increasing number of countries from the Coal and Steel Community, to the EEC (Common...

So what, they can't do anything without the permission of the elected EU parliament. .

Absolutely not true, the EU Commission only has the power to suggest, not to implement, many of their promoted measures are rejected, one of them recently would have affected we e-bikers had it not been rejected. Conversely many quangos have absolute ruling power in their area of governance. .

Juncker was head of the Commission for five years and that ends this year, very soon in fact. He'll shortly disappear from view. Wish I could say the same about Farage. :( .

As said, intentional for a purpose, not to be a problem. But there are several democratic elements: No country has to join the EU. Member countries can refuse to pass a treaty. Every EU law passed down to members has a time period in which they can ask for change or reject the measure. How...

It's intentional that the Commission is unelected since that is not compatible with it's job. Its job is to promote the harmonisation of the member countries towards a single state end and it doesn't operate like a parliament, it operates as a cabinet. If it did operate like a parliament...

There aren't any currently, Sir Alec Douglas Hume was the most recent I know of, but there can be at any time in our unwritten constitution. House of Lords members often have been cabinet ministers, but they cannot be MPs of course. That's why Tony Benn gave up his hereditary title. .

There isn't any, more recently than the war we had unelected Sir Alec Douglas Hume as Foreign Secretary from 1960 to 1963 and then as Prime Minister for a year. .

Because the EU can't as I've repeatedly explained. See this latest post for example. .

But the EU isn't a country. It has no territory, it has no population. It is just a concept, an organisation created by its members to guide towards harmonisation while being controlled and limited in that by its members. The racism that exists is solely that of its member countries They...

Both Scotland and England are separate countries and have been so for hundreds of years. More importantly they are separate nations with nationalities, something the UK and Great Britain do not have, since as federation of countries they are a mix of nations. .

I've always understood your point Zlatan, and seen the truths within. The problem is that the EU simply cannot do anything about it, other than ask and set an example as Danidl explained in his post that I linked to above. The cures for racism and democratic deficiencies are in the hands of...

As I've repeatedly explained, they can't. The EU only has the power and authority the member nations have given it, at the outset and in treaties since. And as we both acknowledge, those member nations have considerable racist elements and democratic deficiencies. So they haven't been given...

You are a liar as I've just explained, since you keep saying we remainers won't acknowledge the EU has the democratic and representational faults you complain of when we repeatedly do acknowledge them, again and again as I did only yesterday. So let me as a Remainer try again in bigger letters...

You are a liar, time after time repeating the same lie even though you know it isn't true that we remainers think the EU is perfect. You know it isn't true because we post that we know the EU isn't perfect and has many faults. I was doing so more than once to you only yesterday. I've even...

I didn't say it was ok and never have. But yes, any democratic deficit is the fault of the countries who don't send to it democratically, either through voter or government failures. But Zlatan, instead of you constantly ranting about this, tell me: How would you put right the democratic...

How many times???? The EU doesn't have the power to decide who is elected to the European parliament. The EU doesn't have the power to tell the member countries who to send as their commissioner. They have to accept who arrives, because the EU is democratic and not a dictatorship. Danidl is...

That is bigotry since I've already acknowledged to you that the EU has flaws, so you know that wouldn't be my having grounds to agree. I was agreeing with OG's challenge , the assumption that only people with the same origin can represent them. This quote of his: "it's a lie, plain and...

It would be entirely the fault of Yorkshire for not electing MPs to parliament. In fact Yorkshire does and they also elect MEPs as well: 54 MPs to the UK parliament 8 MEPs to the democratic European parliament. .