[andylynch]

Remember you have MEPs representing you as well. European elections too often play a distant second fiddle to domestic ones but this really should not be the case.

[aembleton]

Domestic politicians have the ability to instigate changes to legislation. MEPs lack that power - all they can do is block bad legislation from getting passed.

[denton-scratch]

MEPs sit in the European Parliament, which is a talking shop, with very limited powers. It's hardly surprising that few Europeans know who their MEP is.

[Scarblac]

I don't really have a MEP that's "mine", it's proportional representation,not a district system.

[denton-scratch]

No districts? Is this a national "party list" system?

Where is that (pardon my inquisitiveness, and feel free not to answer)?

Instinctively it feels wrong not to be able to vote for a representative you can identify; but I can't formulate a coherent reason why it's wrong.

[Scarblac]

In the Netherlands, in my case. Party lists, yes. Most European countries have that as far as I know, I thought the UK was an outlier.

[denton-scratch]

I see. I wasn't aware that the UK EU constituencies were an idiosyncratic deviation.

Of course, we no longer have MEPs! I often forget this - that's how much difference the MEPs made to my life.