What if the EU chose our cabinet too? As a Brussels power grab leaves Italy run by officials… imagine if it happened here

By Quentin Letts:

With most of Europe in hock to its Franco-German masters, democracy, my dears, is wildly out of fashion. The political changes on the Continent this month make the House of Lords look positively egalitarian.

The new Greek prime minister, Lucas Papademos, is a wealthy economist and former vice-president of the European Central Bank. He holds nothing so sweaty as an elected position. Not a single member of the new Italian Cabinet has been elected. Mandates? Who needs ’em. This is the age of ‘technocrats’, not politicians.

So who might be in our unelected Government if the dreaded day should come — in the not-too-distant future — when Paris and Berlin decided that Britain had to be governed by Brussels-leaning technocrats, too?

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