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Roland Perry · November 14th 16, 01:47 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

In message , at 14:13:29 on Mon, 14 Nov
2016, d remarked:
Well if you enjoy subsidising basket case economies (spain, italy, greece, most
of eastern europe) and think a political entity of which neither the council
that makes policy

They don't *make* much policy, they agree it. And they are elected
because they are ministers from the member states.

or the executive that enacts it is elected

You'd like to see the Civil Service elected, rather than appointed?

The commission in effect has elected heads (the commissioners) because
they are chosen by the elected governments of the member states.

is a suitable representative democracry for the 21st century then feel
free to clear off abroad.

I'm always a bit puzzled by the American system, where people we would
call Ministers (eg Foreign Minister Hilary Clinton) are members of the
public, not elected Senators or Representatives.
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Roland Perry