Comments by "Paul Furey" (@malahammer) on "Brexit: Calls for new referendum but can it happen?" video.

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  7.  @heatleynoble  Here we go again! The EU is a democracy, run and ruled by its members: the democratically elected governments and Parliaments of EU member states. Laws of the EU can only be passed by the directly elected European Parliament, alongside the Council of Ministers, that comprise the ministers of democratically elected governments of EU member states. The European Commission is the servant of the EU (the equivalent of our civil service) and not the master of the EU. The Commission President is elected by the European Parliament that also has to approve all the Commissioners. The Parliament has the democratic power to dismiss the entire Commission, in the same way that our Parliament can pass a vote of no confidence. The EU Council, comprising the democratically elected leaders of every EU member state's government, including Theresa May, democratically agrees the agenda of the EU. All treaty changes, and enlargement, require the unanimous - and I repeat unanimous - consent of all the Parliaments of every EU member state, however large or small. Every single EEC/EU treaty was fully debated and democratically passed by your Parliament in Westminster. Not once were any changes to your membership of the EU imposed on you, and neither could they be, because the EU is a democracy. In many ways the EU is more democratic than the UK system, where you still have an unelected second chamber, where you still have a first-past-the-post system of elections to Parliament (the European Parliament has proportional representation) and in the EU referendum, two out of our four nations of the United Kingdom did not vote for Brexit, but you are still going ahead with it. (This could not happen in the EU where unanimous consent is needed).
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