Daniel Pocock wrote: > - Brexit "leave" campaigners argue that the EU erodes democracy and > compromises national independence.
They do argue that, but both of those points are rather misleading and shouldn't be repeated without clarification: the UK government is less democratic than the EU because while the European Commission is indeed appointed by recent national governments, UK governments often contain people who are descendents of someone appointed by a government centuries ago, such as Earl Howe, currently Minister of State for Defence; and national independence will remain compromised by membership of things like NATO and the UN - for good reason. That democracy argument is like someone saying a pork chop has too much fat on its edge, so we should eat a pork pie instead! > Could it be argued that switching to > free software for public institutions would do more for democracy and > sovereignty than leaving the EU? Yes! I suggest that it would make it easier for us to monitor the internal workings of government and reduce the hold of private corporations over our government's data. Has someone prepared a good explanation of this already? Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@fsfeurope.org https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion