True enough. But there another angle to this: when UK citizens were able to sue their local authorities in European courts, they could also get redress on an individual basis, even if the UK government didn’t give a shit about their constituents, because the courts were supranational and had authority in the UK in certain matters - human rights being one.

When the UK pulled out of the European Union, one of the controls they took back was the ability to shaft their citizenry with total impunity. And let me tell you: I lived in the UK in the mid 90s, and what it’s become now is best described as a shithole. Sorry to be blunt, but I wouldn’t want to be poor or sick in the UK. What a terrible, terrible place to live in today.