At the Conservative Conference, in Manchester, David Cameron has used one of the most common argument to attack the European Union, the lack of democracy, but he has only showed his own ignorance.

Talking to the conference he siad: “People who think of themselves as progressives have fallen in love with an institution that no one elects, no one can remove, and that hasn’t signed off its accounts for over a decade”.

Which institution was he talking about? Maybe the directly elected European Parliament? Or was he talking about the European Commission, that has to receive the confidence of the EP and that  (remember about Mr. Santer) can be sacked by the Parliament itself?

Perhaps he was thinking about the European Council of Ministers, where a representative of each EU national government seats and reaches decisions in agreement with the other 26: is it not democratic?
C’mon, Mister Cameron, it is the same institutional framework used by so many international organization (the UN, the G20, the WTO) and you’d never argue they are not democratic….

As Lord Pattern would be happy to explain to you, the European Union is not an institution: it is a process of co-operation and co-ordination that comprises many institutions.
Everyone is aware that its working should be more open and more democratic, and that is the reason behind the new institutional framework called “Lisbon Treaty”. The same treaty you, Mr Cameron, and your fellow European allies don’t want to be ratified and enforced. 

Talking about democracy, by the way, why didn’t you mention in your speech anything about the House of Lord, which has been at the centre of a democratic reform promoted by progressives in the last ten years?
That is an institution that no one elects, that no one can remove, and that has never signed off its accounts for centuries.

Why don’t you stop babbling about democracy and start helping the progressives to make both the European Union and the House of Lord more democratic and accountable?

We will judge you, Mr Cameron, not on your speeches at the Conference, but on your real position on these two issues.
Despite your rhetoric efforts, at the moment you are failing on both of them!