Another ill-informed Eurosceptic line of reasoning, this time in a letter in the Western Morning News on 24 February. Apart from a swipe at local (Conservative) MEP Caroline Jackson and at "unelected groups in Brussels and Strasbourg" (eh?!), it offers a suggestion as to how the EU should work:

"The ideal would be for the EU bureaucrats to make recommendations, offer advice, suggest improvements and best practice, and then leave it to the elected governments to listen and take action if they want to."

More by luck than judgement, this ill-informed writer has hit on a good description of exactly how things actually do work at European level! The "bureaucrats" do indeed propose and the ministers from "elected governments listen and take action if they want to". For good measure, they are subject to scrutiny by an elected parliament as well.

It's a pity that so many base their ideas on the EU on complete ignorance of how it actually functions!