From: Tim Hunter, Farfield Avenue,
Knaresborough.
IMAGINE if the unelected House of Lords initiated
all legislation, heavily assisted by the Civil Service. Then, imagine if the
Lords were able to, in an attempt give some democratic legitimacy to the
legislation, dump all that legislation onto the elected House of Commons to
rubber stamp its approval.
Imagine also if the elected Commons had no real
leadership and provided no government: that they were merely an unstructured
bunch of MPs, purely there to rubber stamp the endless stream of Lords
legislation. Finally, imagine if the Commons rarely objected to any legislation
coming from the Lords. I think most people would find that a pretty
unsatisfactory and undemocratic arrangement.
Well, what I have described above is exactly how
the EU works. You can’t elect an MEP who can influence or initiate policy. MEPs
can only reject policy and they very rarely do that. EU policy all comes from
unelected bureaucrats and appointees. You can’t directly elect or hold to
account anyone who creates EU policy.
There’d be nothing we could do if some really
unpleasant people took over the EU. Before long, even our elections could be
under the control of the EU. In the near future, we could be flooded by migrants
who we’d have to allow a vote.
The good news is we have a historic chance, in the
forthcoming referendum, to get out of this undemocratic cesspit called the EU.
YorKS Post.
