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OK, I'm hardly claiming that the EU is amazing, but can you admit there are good things being regulated in the EU parliament that can't get through Westminster? I wasn't really talking about corruption, merely the influence of bodies making very large legal donations to MP's CAP and CFP have...

Glad I lightened your day :) I certainly didn't suggest the EU was anti-business, and I could also have added that they were at an arms length from the unions too - although I was including them in the 'vested interests' of the latter part of that sentence. The point I was making was that...

Well, its not totally undemocratic, it still has to answer to national governments, it can't do whatever it likes. But because it is at an arms length from the voters - and, much more importantly, at an arms length from big business and those vested interests that plague elected officials...

Because, as we know, its at an arms-length from traditional democracy, so it doesn't have to do knee-jerk policies to get re-elected; and doesn't have to think in just a short-term view on the big issues like climate change. I mean, thats the point of a benevolent dicatorship, it doesn't have to...

The EU was the closest thing we had to a benevolent dictatorship....