>> ...the European Commission which is a wholly unelected body.
>>
>> Not wholly, in that the Commissioners are appointed by directly-elected national governments. In that sense
>> they're more accountable to the electorate than the UK civil servants who draft the legislation
>> for our parliament to approve. The 'unelected bureaucrats' formula is mostly a dog-whistle for the
>> xenophobes.
>>
Thank you, and again an example of the misinformation that exists out there.
This whole thing is a minefield.
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