Just like the Ukip MEP’s doughty defence of theoretical cakes, people have been telling me for years that the EU restricted their freedoms and imposed undesirable laws. And, for years, they have proved to be uniformly incapable of naming one. I must have asked dozens of times and faced the same cod answers: the conflation of the European Court of Human Rights with the European Parliament; the lazy and erroneous depiction of the EU Commission’s structure as being somehow less ‘democratic’ than our relationship with our own Parliament, civil service and Cabinet, and the final, desperate appeals
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