daphedill; This article from The Guardian, not the Telegraph, may give a clue to why many of us are sceptical whatever is said about the EU's democratic structure.
www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/27/eu-democratic-bandwagon-juncker-president-wanted
As you rightly say, Junker is supposed to be an administrator but he sometimes acts like a dictator when diplomacy is required. Both Britain and the EU would be better off negotiating an amicable divorce but, not for the first time, the EU is putting politics above economics and making a mistake on both.
I don't know whether leaving the EU will bring people together or drive them further apart. I do fear an Election over Parliament's effective rejection of the Referendum result would risk greater extremism and produce a result that the vaste majority of Remain and Leave would not want.
We can agree that more equality and longer term strategies would be a good thing, something we have lacked for 20 years, perhaps because the EU was the long-term strategy.
Good Morning Saturday 20th April 2024
Estranged Son and Future Granddaughter
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic