UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU

Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by Scarblac on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @04:06PM (#13990069)

And the reason it is is that they don't want their own democratically elected governments to lose sovereignty. If you give the EU parliament more power, the national parliaments must lose power.

I don't see how one is more democratic than the other.

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Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by presidente20 on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @05:48PM (#13990917)

I'm saying that the EU is not sufficiently democratic because its executive bodies are not elected by the people whereas in national parliaments they are.

I'm not saying that national governments should give up sovereignty. I'm saying that what powers the EU already has should be more directly democratic.

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Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by pluma on Thursday March 30, 2017 @09:08AM (#13994993)

So you're saying the only valid democracy is one where every body of government is directly elected. Got it.

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Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by presidente20 on Thursday March 30, 2017 @04:42PM (#13998686)

Yes but mainly the executive parts. No doubt the UK government could be more democratic but however imperfect it is why would you want to layer something on top of it that is even less democratic?

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