Quote from plyka:
Yes, it is horrible. I hear something like 5/6th of the laws in Great Britain are made for them by technocrats at the EU. If it wasn't so sad it would be funny. This is the very birth place of classical liberalism. The intellectual foundation of free market capitalism and liberty came from the British. Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, John Locke, Adam Smith, David Hume and the list goes on, all rolling around in their graves.
Agreed, and how sad it is that we are continuing to lose free markets and drifting none to slowly toward a regrettable form of capitalism that none of us learned about in 9th grade civics class. Oh well, 200 years is not a bad run for a republic.