It is and it isn't, a case is referred to the European court on a point of conflict, where two legal definitions are at odds, typcially this involves a conflict between individual rights and the authority of the state.

Typically they provide a definition for a country to accept or reject. Its generally the Judicary that will accept a ruling, rather than the state, in a case and thus set prescident.

Problem is that MEP's are more democratically elected than the representatives of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, as its by proportional representation.

I didn't ask to be a part of the UK, many things preceed us. EU laws also don't tend to incumber soverignity either. The only big issue of that would be the Human Rights Act of 1998, which simply ratified a number of assumptions of rights in British law into actual legislation and made it easier to bring a violation of those rights to court (years rather than decades).

Its a better system (and a more accurate and translatable one). Its also the system of scientific measurement, which lends it a lot of credence. Of course, I quite agree that people should have the right to list in imperial as well, if they so desire.

Imperial as a system of measurement was becoming redundent anyhow, and required people to learn two systems, one convulted and absurd, the other based on a consistant structural form (base 10).

Having had to learn both at school, I object to the idea of imperial as having any value at all other than being different for it own sake (because to pass chemistry, maths, phsyics etc I still needed to learn metric anyhow).

Probably the most important rationalisation of the UK was into systems of common mathematical calculation and measurements (base 10). Exactly what the EU should be doing (introducing common means of communication and commerce between memberstates).

A great example of the EU in action, good ideas, turned into political ideology rather than pragmatism. The idea of a single currency is a great one, the decision to let one trick mickey mouse ecconomies in to it was ideological over pragmatic and ultimately built a house of cards (in reality many of the infamous million note ecconomies generally used DM and Dollers rather than their own currency anyhow).

And here in lies my problem with the EU, its too interested in the politics of the EU, rather than the economic and social long term interests of its member nations. Realistically, it should be doing the one thing that short term democracys suck at; long term goals and strategies, that improve the lot of its member states and its citizens.

Not acting as a means of providing cheap labour, rather resolving issues between member states, and nation and citizen, whilst capitalising on a trading bloc of monumental size.

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I just want to know if laws the you don't like have affected you negatively so I can sympathise and the only ones you've come up with so far are a metric system that was not created by the EU, the Euro that we're not part of, and laws that protect basic Human Rights.

This isn't about you sympathizing. This is about you trying to portray my issues with the EU as somehow unworthy of opposition to it....So you are firstly ignoring issues and then attempting to downplay others.

It's pointless.

Like I've tried to explain to you Eric....The Euro system crashing affected this country financially and to an extent me personally jobwise.

The housing crises, caused in part by the EU, affected my living arrangements in the past.

European laws force us to use metric. The EU won't allow trade without using metric.

Apparently according to you me not being happy with the laws I live under isn't a negative for me. I don't think that's a rational argument.

In fact Eric....I reckon you should become an pro EU MEP....Because you don't appear to listen to what anyone who disagrees with you are saying.

Edited by Stirlingsays (07 Apr 2015 5.13pm)

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Of course not being happy affects how you feel but I still don't see how the human rights act or metric system made your life worse.

Something must have happened for you to curse the fact that humans are given basic human rights

Ok fine. There's not a single law that has been passed in Europe that has made your life worse. Not one.

I'm sure the Labour SNP government will agree with you .