How democracy works

Dan Hannan reports on the European Parliament session at which the MEPs vote through the budgets for the various departments, QUANGOs and other agencies that the EU runs. There was, it seems, an interesting moment...

Towards the end of the session, as we were voting to approve something called the GNSS Supervisory Authority, my colleague Chris Heaton-Harris stood up and asked whether there was a single MEP present who knew what the GNSS was. There was an awkward silence. The Deputy Speaker, a genial Spaniard called Alejo Vidal-Quadras, told Chris that, by the end of the day, everyone would have looked it up.

So that's all right then, eh?

Fucking hellski...