Comment by iso1631

In the UK all I can do is vote for my member of parliament. The victorious member may or may not get in with a majority of votes (about half get under 50%)

They then in effect elect a Prime Minister, who appoints an executive, who create laws and then put them to parliament

In the US you can vote for the leader of the executive directly. 64% of Vermont voted for Harris, yet they still got Trump.

> in practice it is even more skewed towards 'no' for chat control

My understanding is that the public as a whole do not want chat control, yet the democratically elected heads of each member government do want it. The problem here is the democratically elected heads of each member government.

Doesn't take many council members to be against it to stop it in its tracks.