[garinda]

I can't for the life of me understand why, on the one hand we are told that devolution is good, fairer, and more democratic, with people at grassroot level having more power locally, as seen by the Welsh/Scottish parliament, and also the breaking up of the U.S.S.R, and the emergence of independent countries from under the cloak of eastern block rule, and on the other hand we are supposed to think its good that we now have another very costly level of government, with national powers being given over to one big super power state, the E.U.