As Serf says, it’s not binding, it’s not global and it won’t affect the climate. Although it is a policy.

On the contrary, that’s *exactly* what democracy is about, to the great chagrin of those in Brussels who wish power were taken out of our hands.

And politicians *are* citizens – they’ve simply been elected to represent the rest of us. They’re just under the illusion that they’ve been elevated to a Higher Order of Being.

It’s nice of them to spell it all out for us, though. At least they aren’t hiding it, unlike our main parties in the UK…

So if we can’t have referendum because we are too stupid does that also mean that we can’t vote for our MEP’s either?

Is that true?

Single market: Rules and regulations about everything, one size fits all. Free trade would have been infinitely better.

Euro: Italian stagnation, Irish & Spanish inflation followed by likely crash.

lifting of many border controls : Alternately could be called complete loss of control of borders leading to all kinds of problems.

A binding global climate policy: Based on what exactly, the green lobby’s worst case scenarios. Meanwhile China continues to pump out CO2 like there is no tomorrow.

In fact for all the benefits they might have given, they are far from being unalloyed good things. All you need to do is ask why they are considered good things rather than accept it as the truth.