EU has been great for us. Now we can make it work for everyone else

WE’RE lucky. As of last November, there were slightly more than 490 million people living in the EU.

We’re a tiny proportion of that number — less than 1%. But we’re the only ones entitled to vote on how the European Union will operate in future.

The other 99% of the people have to watch and wait while we decide what should be done. I know it has been said there’s something undemocratic about that, and maybe there is.