Guy Verhofstadt is currently running to take over as EU Commissioner from Jean Claude Juncker when he retires in November. He let the cat out of the bag by saying that the EU needs to get rid of the unanimity principle and remove the veto that member states currently have in order to make rules about things like migration. He thinks that they need to proceed on the majority rule principle. This would mean forcing decisions onto member states regardless of their wishes.
No self-respecting British person should want anything to do with such a position. The EU is already completely undemocratic. This would only increase the undemocratic nature of the organization. We are best off out of a club that forces rules on its members without any say at all. Throughout its lifetime the EU’s undemocratic tendency has been on the increase and this shows that the instincts of those in charge of the EU are ever more undemocratic. Our population made the right call when they voted to kick the EU into touch.
Removing the member state’s veto is in essence removing the right to operate as a self-determining entity. It is allowing the EU to become a bureaucracy with no oversight from anyone at all. This is the end result of the EU project, the creation of a civil servant elite who makes rules that ordinary citizens are subject to with no opportunity to vote for them or remove them. It is extraordinary that the Remain position has been established as a liberal position given the illiberal nature of the EU.
The Guy Verhofstadts of this world are only interested in increasing their power and control. Each generation of them produces new ambitions for greater powers. The worst thing we can do with them is give into them and allow them the power they crave. We have reached a point in time where democracy can easily be taken for granted. It is at this point that we risk it slipping away from our grasp. The more power we put into the hands of those with no democratic accountability the more we risk democracy itself.
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