Sorry, that's poppycock. All one has to do is look at the organisations of the EU and you're averagely intelligent person who is slightly interested in politics would be able to deem that it's not the most democratic organisation in the world without too much difficulty.
I note you use the word 'seem'. Would you like to expand on that a little. You aren't very confident in that. Its a very vague comment.
'Too convenient to blame the media.'
Where are you getting your information from? How do you know what the EU does? Can you tell me what the EU does? Can you tell me the name of all your MEPs (without checking - this is about you being honest with yourself and not 'proving' it to me btw)?
The role of the media in a democracy is to be the channel through which the public get most of their information about government from. The purpose of the media in a democracy is to point out when representatives say/do things in a way which is inaccurate and is not just to repeat those fallacies. It is not to simply repeat what they are told, but to check what they are told and assess its value and merit.
What do you think the purpose of the media in a democracy actually is? Your response that I'm taking the easy way out in blaming the media is actually funny.
The triangle of the relationship between the Media - Law - The Executive has been weakened to a point which has become dangerous in this country in terms of accountability. Too many people have no concept of what this even is.
And the alternative is... ?
Democracy is generally not perfect. The idea that our British system is 'better' is one I also struggle with. Indeed the EU has provided a useful tool to protect us against abuses from our state at times. Without it, we will have different problems with accountability. It won't reduce them.
To reduce them, you have to hold politicians to account. There is VERY little of that going on right now. This is a weakness of other politicians and yes the media in this country and one of public apathy and ignorance.
This is the real failure of British politics. This is not about a single party, but of all of them. Until we wake up to this we will never be served better.
There was a survey done at the time of the referendum which found that reasons for voting the way people did was driven primarily by domestic concerns and domestic policies. This was for both remain voters and leave voters. The number of voters who voted on the basis of European issues was TINY. Shockingly so.
Even amongst remainers, there is a huge amount of ignorance about accountability and why decisions are made and who they are made by. Local politics were often mistaken as European Issues. That's not even mistaking National policy for European Policy.
There are problems that need to be solved, but unless we actually understand what the problem is, we can not solve the problem.
We blame the EU for things it does not do. We let people who blame the EU for their mistakes off because of this. What the EU itself does wrong, is lost in this. That makes it very difficult to be able to make those changes to the EU where they do exist and are necessary.
And above all else, when we don't like something, its not enough to merely go - 'we don't like this'. You also have to ask the question - 'what is the alternative?' too. Otherwise you are not really winning in the end anyway.
I am not pro-EU in the sense people will paint me. I am pro-accountability first. I don't think we solve problems of accountability either within the EU Parliament or in British Governance by seeing Brexit as the solution to that. Its a quick fix idea that won't work and will backfire.
And yes the media very much fails into this dynamic. The reality is its easier to blame the EU for our own ignorance and acceptance of ignorance, and then say there is nothing wrong with UK politics and the British Media. This lets us off the hook of dealing with difficult social problems and issues and allows us to not examine our own national failings in our culture and our politics. It allows us to justify voting for lazy, ignorant shits rather than make a fuss about their corruption. Its about our sense of pride as a nation.
Its categorically not about what the EU Parliament, does or does not do.
Brexit needs to be seen as a twin issue. One about our relationship with Europe and one which is about our political and democratic collapse in accountability on a national level. The two are connected.