Are Euro MP's any better?
Maybe I am too cynical, but it's been a long time since our MP's have worked for us or listened to us. I am concerned that without some of the more sane rules by the EU that made the UK better, our MP's will make things worse.
Was it? I thought the argument was that Euro MPs are less democratically accountable to the British public, than ours.
Sort of. It was more that they will have British interests at heart, even if that means the interests of evil corporations in Britian, or their own interests (they are still in Britons living in Britain, remember). No one thinks British politicians are more virtuous than foreign ones, only that they are far more accessible, under far more intense scrutiny from the public and press, and far more vulnerable to the democratic process in Britian, than Euro MPs.
I'd be interested to hear which rules you're referring to?
Clean beaches, rivers, consumer protection, paid leave, work rest, cheap flights, equal pay (tho still not there 100% yet) for quick examples.
Does that not amount to the same thing?
These corporations are global now; that is the point.
They (this lot) are less egalitarian.
Even if some of these rules were relaxed it seems highly unlikely that they would or could be reset back to 1960s standards. Laws tend to be easier to make than to repeal. Lots of non-EU countries have their own similar rules with no help from the EU. There is a general expectation of Britian as being a 'modern' country that keeps up with or even invents the progressive behaviour of other, similar Western nations. Indeed, we have some of the most eyewateringly unacheivable environmental ambitions in the world -independent of any EU rulings.
Not sure why you include this as important?
Eh? You don't believe there is still a gender pay gap, do you? That myth has been debunked so many times.
I thought you were implying 'worse' to mean 'less moral'. My mistake.
I don't see why the level of lobbying would be any different from that which goes on in Brussels. If they want to move, let them move, and let smaller firms take their place.
is that the old 'conservatives hate the working class!' yawn?
No moreso than when new MEPs are elected. What's your point?
Don't be silly. The bulk of MPs are ordinary (albeit middle class) people. Not many come from super rich families, and even less (any?) have titles.
I think there are a lot of MP's who start out with real passion and good intentions............. ha.
A yawn doesn't alter a fact.
The point is brexiters think our MPs will look after them better - they (Conservatives) won't.
Calling it a fact doesn't make it a fact.
In what way won't they? All you're giving is vague hand-waving and hackneyed rhetoric. "Conservatives are just a bunch of bourgeois fat cats, who's with me!"
'Landed gentry' implies titled. How many went to a comprehensive? How many Labour peeps went to Eton? What's so bad about public schools, anyway? Iif anything they offer a better education, so one could argue that our leaders ought to be Etonians rather than a Bashstreets!
But then, both Cameron and Corbyn believe in Blightyman's non-existent gender pay gap, so who knows.
