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It's a revising chamber ( - can extend discussion on difficult issues) whose decisions can be ultimately overridden by the House of Commons. There are many prob
by vixen99 10y ago
It's a revising chamber ( - can extend discussion on difficult issues) whose decisions can be ultimately overridden by the House of Commons. There are many problems with the way it's populated but it's hardly in the same category as an institution as byzantine and undemocratic as the EU.
- pmontra 10y agoOut of curiosity, does the UK have a rules making bureocracy and is it elected? I guessed that any country with a long enough history has agencies and departments that do more or less what they want because they survive through different governments. I concede that the EU case is special because it's one layer more remote from citizens, by design because national governments don't want to surrender their authority to a central one. There is a big difference between Washington and Brussels but, to be fair, also between Europe and the USA. Europe is not one nation.
- MLR 10y agoThe country is run by the Civil Service which is directed by the Cabinet, which is appointed by the Prime Minister. So while the Civil Service is run by permanent employees they are basically at the whim of whoever happens to be in power at the time.