I first read it as tempt with shoes . I am disappointed <| sep |> So you think that this is all some undercover super secret pedo ring run by high ranking politicians , and they post proof on a public instagram account ? Really ? <| sep |> Name the 5 EU presidents who are in power over us . Name your MEP . What do they stand for what are their policies ? How many of your friends can answer these questions ? My party only has Catherine bearder , locally we have Paul nutal UKIP and a bunch of interchangeable faceless labour drones . As for the five presidents , the jobs could do with better names its an issue of translation , most people could surely name Jean claude junker basicly EU PM . The rest i know but doubt most brits would i also suspect they wont know their UK equivalents either . Mario Drachi president of the ECB equivelent to mark carney govener of the central bank . Martn shuzl president of the parliment EU speaker equivelent to berkowDonald tusk president of the council , closest equivalent would be governor general in Australia or Canadafith one i had to google because the post was never relevant to us as hes the eurogroup president , no brit even nees to know that . The parliament is toothless because it can only review legislation . It can ' t propose laws . Only the commission can do that , but as you say we don ' t elect them . The parliament can amend approve or reject , it can also submit proposals to the commission and sack them if the commission don ' t obey as happend in 1999 well the commission jumped before it was pushed same outcome . The EU parliament cant have unlimited legislative power like the UK parliament can because it ' s not sovereign like Westminster is . One of the commissions biggest jobs is to ensure the EU can legaly do the thing they are proposing . We don ' t directly elect the UK government either they are both inderectly elected . Once the UKEU parliament are elected the QueenEU council invite the leader of the largest party to form a government Commission which must pass a vote of confidence in the parliament . We had leaders debates hosted by eurovision as neutral ground before the EU election for anyone who cared to watch , our media were pricks like always and ignored it . 3 of the five debates were even done in English ffs . room 20140514 STO 47054 choosewho ' s i n c h a r g e d e b a t e w i t h c a n d i d a t e s f ornextcommissionpresident So to sum up the democratic structures of the EU are not of any practical use for the citizenry to affect meaningful accountability . Hence why I call it a sham . Your information being a decade out of date is the problem here not the EU system . What more could the EU do when the UK as a whole did everything possible to wreck the system . Cameron tried to undermine the election because he didn ' t like the result .