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• BjoernKW 10y ago
  Exchanging one remote, self-serving political elite for another doesn't automatically make things better though. For what it's worth, Westminster is just as far away from most of the UK as Brussels.
  • Safety1stClyde 10y ago
    > Westminster is just as far away from most of the UK as Brussels. A mathematical impossibility. Wherever you define the centre of the UK to be, it's nearer to Westminster than Brussels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_points_of_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_points_of_the_United_Ki... The average distance of any point in the UK from Westminster or Brussels is then just going to be the root of the square of the average distance to that centre point plus the square of the distance to Westminster or Brussels.
    • BjoernKW 10y ago
      I didn't mean that geographically but as a figure of speech for 'the political establishment of the UK'.
  • monk_e_boy 10y ago
    My local MEP is one of 751, my local MP is one of 650 So mathematically local representation is better if we leave.
    • notahacker 10y ago
      The probability of at least one of your region's MEPs being from a party you voted for is a fair bit higher though...
      • mike-cardwell 10y ago
        "Representation" isn't just about numbers though. 90% of your MEPs don't even have English as their first language. I don't know what proportion of them have even been to the UK. You don't get representation from these people. They're too busy representing their home countries. Which of course, is how these things work. The larger the state, the more diluted your representation becomes at the center. Which is why you need to make sure to not centralise too much power.