> do not outweigh a fair, free, democratically held election In case it needs reminding, those elections did occur, and May ended up needing to go in bed with

> do not outweigh a fair, free, democratically held election In case it needs reminding, those elections did occur, and May ended up needing to go in bed with the DUP to stay in power. Edit: ok, I see what you've done with your edit... > Imagine the vote was vice versa and the right-wing would be crying about unfair campaign ads and Brussel influence, not one person would take them seriously. Everyone would have correctly raised that it's horse shit, because the EC is fairly transparent in what it does if you bother to take a look. The real wtf in recent decades has been that Brussels is a perfect scapegoat: as a national politician you can go to the European Council and promote what have you; EC and EP pick it up and deliver; and then you can turn around and tell voters "see it's Brussel's fault" because national newspapers aren't reporting enough on what's going on in the EU. And just to be clear, this is nothing new. It already was a problem 20 years ago. And insofar as I've been made aware by the law teachers I had back then, 40 years ago as well.