> "It was about racism in the sense of blaming immigrants for the UK's own political failures." It really wasn't. The mass media set the topics for discussion

> "It was about racism in the sense of blaming immigrants for the UK's own political failures." It really wasn't. The mass media set the topics for discussion around the Brexit debates, with speculation around immigration and the economy being the two central pillars, but the topics of debate should have been much broader than that. Let's look at TTIP for one example. How much involvement have MEPs had in influencing the contents of the TTIP deals? What does this say about the level of democracy in the EU?