Maybe you should ask why we aren't getting involved in shaping the CAP (and working to abolish it) instead of glibly using this incident as proof that somehow we shouldn't be involved in decision making at all.
With regards to dealing with the EU, if you want to sell to the EU then you have to conform to their standards.
All the while we are in the EU, at least we have a say on what those standards actually are.
You're every bit as bad with your insistence that the EU is all bad. Your rant yesterday about lack of democratic accountability was case in point, especially given the rather gaping holes in our own democracy.
Yes, let's ask the Greeks. Let's ask them WHO voted their feeble centre-right...
You're cherry picking one aspect of the EU voting mechanism to make your point. What about the fact we have a significant portion of an entire governing house that is unelected thanks to hereditary peerage or is appointed by methods other than an election? Or the fact that our head of state is...