“How can you not like something which, by your own admission, has no effect on your daily life?”
I don’t know whether you are being deliberately obtuse or whether you really don’t get it, Zacs. Either way, there’s not much point in our continuing to debate the same thing over and over again. So I’ll just explain one more time:
I don’t like the fact that a body – especially one so democratically deficient as the EU – can hold sway over what the elected UK government may or may not do. The issue is not with what the Euromaniacs do or do not do. (I support some of the things they do whilst vehemently opposing others). It’s the fact that they have the power to do it that is my concern. I do not like the idea that unelected foreign civil servants, whom we cannot deselect, can dictate what laws the UK government – and hence UK citizens - must comply with. I don’t know of any other country or group of countries outside Europe that would acquiesce to such a scheme. I accept that common standards are necessary for trade to be relatively frictionless. However I believe that the mass of other legislation introduced by the EU Commission has nothing to do with trade (the EEC’s original focus) but simply amounts to a concerted march towards a Federal State.
I accept that there is much wrong with the democratic process and with politics in the UK (as you have rightly pointed out in the past). But it’s the best we’ve got and the electorate is not best served by ditching the democracy that we have got – warts and all - for no democracy at all.
It’s quite clear that you (and probably most Remainers) are happy to see the UK government have its hands tied by such an organisation. You must also be content to see its aim of a United States of Europe ultimately fulfilled. (If not you should have voted to leave because, unless it breaks up in chaos, that will be the eventual outcome). That is your privilege. The majority of people who voted in the referendum obviously thought differently.
I don’t really know how much clearer or simpler I can put it.