Re: Did anyone really except anything different?
How it must gall them that their 'Snoopers' legislation keeps getting declared illegal and them having to actually do something about it, when clearly the United Kingdom is worth three United Europes. [where's the sarcasm icon].
You've got a lot more chance of getting something objectionable like the Snoopers charter overturned at the national level than you do a piece of EU-wide legislation. We know where our MPs live and we can vote them out. Not so easy with unaccountable and unelected faceless Brussels bureaucrats that meet in secret.* The EU has been designed very carefully to shield the decision-makers as much as possible from the great unwashed masses. It is the antithesis of a democratic organisation.
* - MEPs don't count. The European Parliament is a powerless talking shop - a theatrical sideshow.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
