Lazy European Thinking

"We should listen to the people; that's how we re-engage with them. If we refuse, then we do so at our peril and a little bit more trust and democracy will die. This is why it's essential to give the people a choice on the ballot paper. If I am selected to the list system I will promise that the party voters can de-select me if I do not carry out my promise of putting the sovereignty of parliament first and thinking, "Is that directive really necessary? If not, scrap it."
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/janice_small/2008/01/vote_for_change.html

This is just lazy to the point of dishonest. Janice Small (With whom I agreed on a lot of her other points...) then offers this kind of lazy, misleading, false choice. I bet she's really scared at the thoughtof being de-selected because she's not done enough to put the sovereignty of parliament first - how the hell do you prove that.

Oh, and wait - if she's tearing up directives....(wait for it.....) isn't she second guessing the UK Parliament whose sovereignty she just swore to uphold.

Never mind the fact that she's in a parliament, which millions of people have voted before but promising sovereignty to another - isn't that the absolute definition of not listening to the people.

And while I'm on listening to people, this is the big trap that eurosceptics fall into like clunking hammers - which people? Every Directive has people who want it - Boris Johnson proved that when he shouted at the CBI because they couldn't come up with a singlepiece of red tape they wanted to scrap. Every Directive helps someone...... The skill is in balancing the needs, wants, winners and losers to produce the most effective legislation. I'd pay more attention to Eurosceptics if they got that..........