This country we both sit in is just as undemocratic or worse.
Nonsense.
But we directly elect the people who do decide the people in those posts.
We vote with the knowledge of who is already either nominated to hold, or already holding those offices, and it is taken into account. We get to vote on that team. We have no idea and no say even indirectly about the commission, we have no interaction with that team. In my view representative democracy becomes much less representative once it has been allowed to chain completely indirectly.
And most of our country is run by civil servants who never have to risk their job in a ballot box.
Does the EU not also have this problem to an even greater degree?
[stuff about domestic policy and racism]
Not relevant.
This puts the Commission in a much weaker, and as a result more democratic, position
Being the only body that can initiate legislative procedure means it essentially dictates the entire agenda. This puts it in a position of comparative strength.
Look... I wasn't in favour of Brexit. I think it will prove to be a mistake in the long run. But you're blind if you can't see that there are genuine issues with the way parts of it are setup. There is zero engagement between the people of Europe and the Commission, and regardless of any technical arguments for or against it's democraticness, people feel entirely disconnected from it.
To pretend there weren't genuinely decent concerns about the nature of the EU in amongst all the bullshit simply isn't reasonable.
(, Fri 3 Apr 2020, 14:31, Reply)