RE: UK to leave EU
July 21, 2016 at 7:11 pm
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2016 at 7:14 pm by Tiberius.)
(July 21, 2016 at 1:55 pm)Napoléon Wrote:(July 20, 2016 at 9:11 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Directly? No. Indirectly? Yes. Juncker was elected as President in the same way David Cameron was elected Prime Minister. His party chose him as their candidate for President, and then the party won the most seats. You may have not cast a vote for Juncker personally, but did you cast a vote for Cameron either?
This is bullshit mate.
The answer is a flat no. Not 'indirectly' yes. When voting in a general election the general public get to vote for a political party. Who got to vote for Juncker's party in the EU? Not the general public of Britain. End of.
Blame that on the Conservatives. They were part of the EPP until 2009. A vote for a Conservative MEP was a vote for the EPP. I still don't see how that's an issue for you. If Labour, for whatever reason, didn't have a MP candidate for a constituency, but they won the general election, that doesn't mean the people who voted in that constituency had less of a vote, and it doesn't make it undemocratic.
The facts are, if you don't vote for a party (even if they didn't field any candidates in your area), and that party wins, they get to decide things. You not being able to vote for them is irrelevant.
By the way, here's a list of parties that are members of the EPP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_P...Membership
Conservatives used to be on that list too. Just because they left and made it so that there were no UK members doesn't make the voting unfair. A UK party could join the EPP and field their own MEPs if they wanted.