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Originally Posted by blazey
It's a body which needs to interact more with it's national member states' citizens, and probably more so now in our case what with the BNP having seats, who represent very few people in reality.
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A classic Europhile technique - brand the Eurosceptics as xenophobic racists, then we don't have to bother about all the inconvenient realities of the EU superstate...like the fact that its own auditors have refused to sign its accounts off for how many years now?...is it 14?
Like the fact that the EU has total and utter contempt for democracy. So much so that they've refused to give the people of its member states a vote on the Lisbon Treaty. Oh sorry, the Irish are getting a vote, but they got it wrong first time, so they've got to vote again in the hope that they "get it right".
As for "subsidiarity", here's a prime example - When this country brought the Merchant Shipping Act into force in an attempt to curb the large, unpoliced Spanish fishing fleet from buying up our quotas and depleting our dwindling fish stocks, the European Court of Justice decided that the Act was illegal. Not only did we have to give the Spanish free access to our territorial waters, we also had to pay them 150m euros compensation! Naturally, our gutless government meekly complied with all this, but so much for "subsidiarity"!
Still, fair play to you, Blazey. At least you're prepared to come on here and speak up for the EU. Quite a contrast to the Labour party members on here who, as they support the government, presumably support the EU, yet avoid this issue like the plague!