I missed this earlier in the week so my thanks to John at The England Project for causing me to dribble tea down my shirtfront. The Times reported:

For the first time in its 53-year existence, the European Court of Justice has given the Commission in Brussels the power to impose criminal sanctions. In a landmark ruling that is as ominous as it is deluded, the Luxembourg-based court yesterday overruled the governments of EU member states, removing from them the sole right to impose their own penalties on people or companies breaking the law, and giving the unelected EU Commission an unprecedented role in the administration of criminal justice.

To which The England Project responded:

I mean, come on. This is getting a little too serious for comfort. Once every 4 or 5 years we get to vote for a bunch of loonies to rule over us and that is our only real window of opportunity to keep the loonies from overrunning the asylum. We don’t even get that with these Empire building fantasists at the EU Commission.

I could not have put it any better. Democracy and the remnants of England being slowly but surely whittled away.