Archive for 2009/06 :

The European elections and the anti-EU case in the UK

Posted by nosemonkey on 08/06/09

If so many people in Britain (80% was the usual figure quoted) wanted a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, how come only 43% bothered voting?
If the anti-EU cause is so overwhelmingly popular, how come only around half of those voted for an anti-EU party? (And that’s only if you include the Tories as anti-EU.)
Let’s number-crunch: [...]

What percentage of laws come from the EU?

Posted by nosemonkey on 02/06/09

Claims for the number of laws with an EU origin range from just 9% up to 84%. So what’s the truth?

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