Remain 2. Ask our leaders to work with other leaders to improve it 3. Run away and hide. I wonder how many would still have voted for 3.? It was, and still is, on the Conservative side of the House that there was complete silence on the role of the EU. This created the vacuum adroitly filled by Nigel Farage and his ilk. Search for:. James Elles December 18th, Yes, the European Parliament is different from Westminster — and British leaders never bothered to explain how 2 comments 23 shares Estimated reading time: 10 minutes.
MEPs vote on the investment budget, October As John McCormick put it in his book, Why Europe Matters: The Case for the European Union: So while we can say that the EU is more than a conventional international organisation, and while there has been much pooling or sharing of policy responsibilities, the EU falls some way short of being a federal United States of Europe, and — most importantly — there is direct or indirect accountability to European voters all along the way.
This post represents the views of the author and not those of the Brexit blog, nor LSE. Share this: Click to share on WhatsApp Opens in new window. About the author James Elles. I note that the writer of this article was a Conservative MEP. Read Next 'We're better off out': Nigel Farage, the chicken farm and the emotional resonance of the Leave campaign June 7th, Related Posts European politics. European politics.
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