If the EU is to move foward the commission must be eliminated, the assumption that that corrupt body has a future in the EU is a Sacred Cow you seem to adhere to, Adrian.

The EU is already a federal state, but it has been done un-democratically because the EU is run by State, not people. That is the reason the British are upset, we have no control over the direction of this monstrosity.

When it comes to election time people vote on the party they think will best-run their country, the executive of that party then also controls the direction of the federal government. So long as State governments control the federation it will remain un-democratic and therefore abhorrent.

The entirity of the governing aparatus of the EU MUST be directly elected if the institution is to do anything other than self-destruct.