Ann Widdecombe's EU slavery remarks branded as 'disgusting'

[mwooldri]

1. Ann Widdecombe had a serious point.

Imagine if the 50 governors of the USA got together and selected the next president of the United States. That's how the leadership of Europe is decided. The EU commissioners are appointed by each member state, an analogy would be if each state got to pick one member of the US President's cabinet.

And how policy is decided is crazy. Imagine if the US government administration made up a law, and Congress could only say "yay" or "nay" to that new proposed rule/law? And Congress couldn't create new legislation, always had to come from the executive branch first...

I like the idea of Europe and yes there needs to be an EU with the UK in it, but the European Union set up as it is isn't as democratic as I would like it to be.