Electing public officials and judges; what fool thought of that one?

We heard lots from the official campaign to leave the EU about democracy. Most of it was hypocritical rubbish. We heard that the head of the European Commission was an un-elected bureaucrat who was telling Britain what to do - how dare he? Britain needed to reassert its authority to put this nasty bureaucrat in his place.

No sensible state has an elected head of the civil service. The head of the EU Commission is approved by the the council of ministers and the European parliament. Just like Britain, the head of the civil service or EU Commission is not elected and should never be elected by a popular vote.

If Britain were to elect the head of the civil service then he or she would become like a head administrator and elected president rolled into one. This would lead to a conflict of interest and what would happen if the the head of the civil service disagreed with the prime minister?

The Leave politicians know that it is not possible, in a free society, to have elected officials; what would happen to the political impartiality of the civil service?  Would a Labour elected head of the civil service refuse to implement the policies of a Conservative government or vice versa? This would be a recipe for political chaos. We already have political chaos as a result of the ill conceived referendum. Why pile on more agony by electing the head of the civil service?

If, as a Leave voter, you expect to have elected civil servants then you have been duped. Just like you were duped about promises for £350 million pound per week of extra money for the NHS. Neither of these promises will be delivered by leaving the EU.

Similar accusations were made about the European Court Of Justice being composed of  un-elected judges. What sort of politician proposes that we elect our judges? This would be a recipe for a system of justice based on madness. How could any one contemplate having judges elected on the basis of what political party they support?

Heaven help you if you are a known Green party supporter coming up before a UKIP judge, or even a Conservative party supporter coming up before a Labour judge. Judges must be seen to be politically impartial and must actually be impartial. If as a result of leaving the EU the political classes insist on elected judges then we will soon be on the path to a totalitarian government assisted by a politicised judiciary.  North Korea here we come.

Once again if you voted to leave the EU on the the promise that you would get elected judges then you were double duped. You either won't get what you want, or if you do get what you want,  then you could end up being imprisoned by a judge who does not like your political opinions.