The EU Parliament

Iain Dale has a fascinating video on his blog today of how democracy works in the EU Parliament. It shows a UKIP member being ejected for calling a socialist europhile a fascist! The EU Parliament is a fig leaf for the Monnet/Schuman project to abolish European countries and to construct another country in its place. No matter that the citizens of most European countries do not want to become citizens of another country without being asked. Monnet and Co, not untypically of the French intelligentsia, believe the likes of you and me  too stupid to know what's good for us so the transfer of our citizenship from our native lands to 'Europe' must be done behind our backs without further ado. Monnet and Co together believe that eventually all us proles will one day wake up, realise our resistance to the whole idea was misconceived, or at worst futile, and thank God for what these visionaries have done for us, or at worst sullenly accept it. I think Monnet and Co fail to understand human nature. Why is the EU Parliament a fig leaf? Because it has virtually no powers and it seems its decisions can be overruled by unelected officials (watch Channel 4's Dispatches http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3139895 for 15 November 2010, about 14 minutes in).