Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
Nobody was asked whether railroads and plumbing ought to have been build. Nobody was ever asked whether their countries should've joined NATO, the UN or the WTO. The peoples of Europe do not get directly asked a great many things.


They were all, however, without exception, democracies when they joined. Representative democracies are commonly accepted to represent the will of the people. All member states are representative democracies who joined of their own free will, and who remain a member as a free, democratic and independent state.


When they joined the people were not told their government would begin handing over soverign powers.

Witness the ECHR trying to tell Britain how to order its democracy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12428488

They have been roundly told to sod off.

At this rate it may well be the ECHR which forces Britain to withdraw from European co-operation in general.