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Remember you have MEPs representing you as well. European elections too often play a distant second fiddle to domestic ones but this really should not be the ca
by andylynch 5y ago
Remember you have MEPs representing you as well. European elections too often play a distant second fiddle to domestic ones but this really should not be the case.
- denton-scratch 5y agoMEPs sit in the European Parliament, which is a talking shop, with very limited powers. It's hardly surprising that few Europeans know who their MEP is.
- Scarblac 5y agoI don't really have a MEP that's "mine", it's proportional representation,not a district system.
- denton-scratch 5y agoNo districts? Is this a national "party list" system? Where is that (pardon my inquisitiveness, and feel free not to answer)? Instinctively it feels wrong not to be able to vote for a representative you can identify; but I can't formulate a coherent reason why it's wrong.
- Scarblac 5y agoIn the Netherlands, in my case. Party lists, yes. Most European countries have that as far as I know, I thought the UK was an outlier.
- denton-scratch 5y agoI see. I wasn't aware that the UK EU constituencies were an idiosyncratic deviation. Of course, we no longer have MEPs! I often forget this - that's how much difference the MEPs made to my life.
- aembleton 5y agoDomestic politicians have the ability to instigate changes to legislation. MEPs lack that power - all they can do is block bad legislation from getting passed.