Democracy

It will be interesting to see in the next few days how the EU react to the speeches made this week by Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May.

Corbyn wants us to be members of "a" customs union, with no concessions. i.e. tied to EU legislation, ruled by the ECJ, unable to control immigration.

May wants to have a fairer system, but in essence we pay money to the EU in exchange for tariff-free access to certain service sectors and geographical areas. In essence free movement of money across borders for her chums in the City of London and we cough up to get the EU to turn a blind eye to the lack of border between Northern and Southern Ireland.

Both speeches were aimed at the audience at home, after all both are elected politicians and I'm sure they would like to be re-elected at some point, so they have to sound good at home.

However, the EU commission members are unencumbered by such petty things as an electorate. They do not have to answer to the thousands of European car workers that could lose jobs if we buy fewer European cars. They can and would quite easily allow the UK to crash out of the UK with no substantial trade deal in place. It's just tough for those European workers and after all, what are they going to do about it? It's not as if those workers can sack the commission members is it?

Nope, the commission will stick two fingers up to the European electorate and would quite happily allow them to lose their jobs. As an example just look at the youth unemployment in the Southern EU states. Do the commission care about that? Nope, not their problem, even if it is their rules and restrictions that have caused it.

Therin lies the problem with the EU: it is undemocratic at best and anti-democratic at worst. The response from Brussels I am convinced will prove that very fact.