Thread by @Femi_Sorry

Does Michael Gove sit in his constituency office, drafting environmental laws, using the scientific expertise he gained from his English Lit degree?
Or does the UK government set the general policy direction and then the unelected civil service drafts the legislative proposals?

Well at the EU level, the Government set the general policy direction of the EU in the @EUCouncil twice every 6 months. And then the Commissioners who they appoint and who need to be individually approved by the directly elected @Europarl_EN, then draft the legislative proposals.

OK well in my view that makes it very difficult to argue that EU legislative proposals are less democratically legitimate than UK legislative proposals.
But that's obviously not the end of the story...

In @UKParliament, the body that proposes the legislation (government) usually has a controlling majority over parliament, due to our two-party/first-past-the-post system. So they can decide which proposed bills/amendments pass.
Whereas in the @Europarl_EN, the @EU_Commission...

So not only does the Commission not have the power to shut down or introduce amendments once their proposals hit the European Parliament, but because the European Parliament is elected by proportional representation, each party has a fairer share of the seats.

For example: the Greens have a similar level of support in the UK as they do across the EU, yet the European Parliament has 51 green MEPs, while in the UK, divinity though she may be, we only have Caroline Lucas.

You know what that means, right?

Statistically, your views and your vote are more likely to make a difference and be influential in the European Parliament, than in the UK parliament, and yet we voted for Brexit because we felt we weren't being heard.