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: [...]

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

Alternate post title: Westminster MPs: Not as corrupt as UKIP MEPs…

Via the Convention on Modern Liberty’s Twitter feed and following yesterday’s post on German concerns about the EU being used as a democratic bypass comes news of a worrying development for the freedom of every EU citizen:
People may be aware of the debate in the UK over access to communications data… but are less familiar [...]

Six months to go, and the first poll of UK voting intentions appears. Much of interest.