And therein lies the problem.
No, not the bit about Theresa May or Nigel Farage, this bit:
European leaders are gathering in Brussels to choose the successor to Jean-Claude Juncker as President of the European Commission.
That bit. That is why we need to leave. The commission and its leader, is selected not elected. We, the little people, don’t get a say in the matter. There is a democratic deficit at the dark heart of this upstart bureaucracy and it needs lancing.
Surely the people should have a ‘final say’ in who leads them.
So a Labour voter in a safe Conservative seat, (is there such a thing now?), votes for a Labour candidate but the Conservative gets in. That Conservative gets to help choose the PM but unfortunately their choice doesn’t get the job. A similar process has been carried out throughout Europe in 27 other countries, 23 of which our Labour voter couldn’t even name, to select 27 other PMs, none of whom our Labour voter could name or pick out in an identity parade.
These unknowns gather together and horse-trade for someone to lead the EU. The PM that our Labour voter didn’t get to choose is overuled by most of the other 27 and a ‘bank clerk’ from a country our Labour voter has never heard of, or at least couldn’t point to on a map, gets the job.
Democracy?
So they say.
No form of democracy can work perfectly. I think that, more important than a majority of voters getting the government that they want, is the ability to rid ourselves of the government that we don’t want. In the absence of a functioning democracy this usually requires a civil war. In the case of the EU, it has been run entirely for the benefit of the authoritarian clowns that run it for decades. People who are paid vast amounts of money and produce nothing of value to anyone. The Kinnocks for instance, Neil couldn’t get people to vote for him so he went off to where such inconveniences are irrelevant.
And of course it will be a secret ballot with only one candidate! Shades of the good old days of the Soviet Union.