The MEPs are elected (ours are, anyway) but the unelected ones are those who come up with the ideas for Directives eg, telling Irish farmers how to dip their sheep when they've done it for many years, sale of homemeade bread and jam to be prohibited, the new idea that honey jars have to be labelled with pollen as an ingredient (at the moment, the ingredient is simply honey), pork chops not to be sold with kidneys (they used to be and the kidneys added flavour), plus most of the silly H&S 'rules' we now have to put up with.
I wouldn't care if a cucumber had a curve. All I do is slice it or cut it into strips. What's the matter with vegetables and fruit that are not perfect - they are still edible? Those were the days when you could go to a greengrocers and buy 'Frying Tomatoes'. It just meant that they were suitable only for cooking. Eurocrats have stopped that. Farage and his party - UKIP - just want Britain to be what Britons want, not what other European countries want.
Many Mnetters have no experience of what life should be like because they are too young. I am not being unreasonable. And, before you get on your soapboxes, I am not by any means proposing to go back to utside toilets or wells for water. I have been there, done that and have made my choice prefer to have mod cons but do not want to be dictated to by other countries.