Brexit Party candidate says that leaving the EU will have an effect on the economy for '30 years'

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. People did vote for it.

The 1975 referendum. In contrast, we never voted to form the United Kingdom. It just came into being. We vote for the EU parliament as well as the House of Commons (not, of course, the Lords - appointed (like EU commissioners, but Lords are for life), plus a few hereditaries, and clerics). The main power in the EU is the heads of government of the countries - all elected, directly or indirectly (as in our case).

UK democracy has not been 'undermined'. The EU is just as democratic as the UK. Sure, our MPs lie to us, but that's not the EU's fault. It's because we elect such crappy ones at Westminster. They lie far more than the average MEP.