"When did you vote in members of the OFT?" -- The OFT are accountable to the MP that represents me.
The European Parliament is a joke: just look at the way that the UK public view it compared with the 'collaborationist' way that all other member countries view it... (and look at how their favourite currency is in constant threat of collapse...).
Let's simplify this: if Swiss was being sold by LH, would the (unelected!) EC have any say? NO! So why should the UK's OFT have to bow down on this matter to their 'lords and masters' in Brussels?
Sod the EC, the OFT should stop passing the buck and say yes to UK jobs!!!
(Now don't get me onto this EU farce of FTLs, when the UK actually has best and should not be cow-towing to the EU but insisting that the UK's sterling standards are maintained!)
I'm getting more tempted to start reading the Daily Mail!!!!!