She voted for Brexit because it was an undemocratic institution that had no regard for popular sovereignty. It was a principled stance. In other words you cannot be a true democrat and vote to remain in the EU.
They also talk about the cowardice of the Left on Brexit. There were many people on the Left, particularly the old school Left who were against the EU(Corbyn for example). Even the fucking guardian were against the EU at one point. It's funny, the guardian wrote an editorial outlining its case for 'remain' during the vote, but if you go back a few years they were saying the exact opposite. After the EU fucked over Greece the guardian wrote an editorial about it being time to leave the EU because of the undemocratic way it was behaving.
Personally, I can understand people's fears of the economic ramifications of Brexit, but at the same time, I can perfectly understand voting leave because of the fundamental principles of democracy and popular sovereignty.
She cites multiple times a discontent with her country's government. How does this relate to the EU in any way?
But I guess she's happy to have a tory + DUP coalition now, she sure showed them
And give me a break about "voting leave because of the fundamental principles of democracy and popular sovereignty".
In a country with a head of state appointed by divine rule. A democratic system based on FPTP where no one actually even votes for the government leader directly, but for their local MP.
And the House of Lords sure is a model of democracy
So how exactly does this follow the "fundamental principles of democracy and popular sovereignty", while an institution composed of (1) democratically elected MEP (2) democratically elected heads of state and (3) a council proposed by 2 and voted in by 1, is completely undemocratic?
No, that is pretty much her stance on Brexit. She doesn't explicitly say that in this interview.
It doesn't mean that the UK system doesn't have flaws, what it does mean is you have MPs that are at least answerable to the people. And in terms of the House of Lords, they(spiked) don't like it either.
In terms of how the EU works:
-democratically elected MEPs: MEPs have no power to create or propose legislation, they have no power to change existing legislation, all they can do is react to current proposals and that basically means ask them to look at the proposals again (a bit like the house of lords, funnily enough). That means MEPs are unable really to fulfil their mandate. Presumably they have asked the electorate to vote for them for some reason, when in reality they can't actually do anything.
Well, 2 and 3 are kind of the same thing. The council is made up of heads of state. This is an argument some have made for why the EU is democratic. Each head of state is democratically voted in by the citizens of their country. This is misleading though. Each individual head of state is only answerable to the citizens of their own country. Obviously that means Angela Merkel is not answerable to the British people. This also means the council as a
body is answerable to no one because there is no unified EU citizenry to be answerable to. The council operates intergovernmentally which really is the only way it can run.
Really though how the EU institutions operate is the least of the concerns, it is the actions and interference in the votes and elections of individual EU states that is of the most concern. So for example France and the Netherlands(I think) voted against the EU constitution. The EU establishment didn't then decide to scrap it, they subverted the will of the people by repackaging the EU constitution as the Lisbon Treaty. Ireland voted against the Lisbon Treaty. The EU basically bullied them into taking the vote again until the people gave them the answer they wanted. They then fucked over the Greek people who tried in every way to assert their own independance which the EU basically squashed.
To go back to something I also mentioned. That being how many on the Left done a U-turn when it came to the EU. Surprisingly, one of those people was Owen Jones, who wrote this about the EU:
The left must put Britain's EU withdrawal on the agendahttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/14/left-reject-eu-greece-euroscepticOf course when Brexit came around, his views suddenly changed. You might want to read what he wrote back then, he made some good points. lol