Re:EU’s New VAT Rules Could Create a Mess for Startups
by Silhouette on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @03:04PM
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More than 50% of MPs have voted for the current UK Government.
Right. But that means there is already an average of averages problem, even leaving aside the well documented criticisms of how those MPs are themselves elected. And literally everything beyond that is a matter of political dealing, not representative democracy, so the idea that there is any meaningful democratic accountability at all for the European Commission is still silly.
Re:EU’s New VAT Rules Could Create a Mess for Startups
by rmc on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @03:24PM
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By that logic the UK isn't democratic. Is any country democratic?
Re:EU’s New VAT Rules Could Create a Mess for Startups
by Silhouette on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @05:32PM
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No, the UK isn't really very democratic in a literal sense, and nor is anywhere else. That isn't really the point, though, because as far as I know, no-one here is claiming that pure democracy is somehow the idealised form of government. The point was merely that the European Commission doesn't have much of a democratic mandate to impose these kinds of burdens on everyone.
In any case, we're drifting well off the original topic now and I'm not sure this discussion is going anywhere constructive, so I'm going to stop there.
More than 50% of MPs have voted for the current UK Government. Yes, they aren't all in the same party. Many countries have coalition governments, and we have no problem with them. A minority government sounds very undemocratic