Personally, I think that a "world government" would be a terrible idea. I think the trend should be the opposite more accountability by getting closer to the p

Personally, I think that a "world government" would be a terrible idea. I think the trend should be the opposite more accountability by getting closer to the public. With all its faults, something I like about the UK system is the political accountability to constituents. MPs are required in their job description to defend their own constituents interests. I'm not defending a "lean" state, I'm saying that mega-governments will eventually just view the world from the balcony of the megapolis ivory tower, since the bureaucratic weight of being present in all corners of the whole world would be too much. You can see that in many developing and developed countries. You have a national government, in its own bubble in the capital and far-away corners of the country are invisible. Decentralisation would be impossible, by definition, in a world gov, IMO. PS: I'm not against pan-national orgs or efforts like the EU. The process of sitting around a table and discussing the big issues is essential, in my view. Even legal and economic harmonisation. I'm against Brexit, but if anything, a positive of Brexit is that it showed the EU is not a "government". There is an escape clause and people can leave it. How do you leave a "world government"?