It's the EU again

I blogged recently about how an EU directive was behind Geoff Hoon's internet monitoring database. I queried yesterday whether the government could, even if it cared to do so, allow companies to delay their VAT payments for six months; as I believed EU legislation would prevent them. Today I learn from Devils Kitchen that my piece about random breath testing of drivers also has an EU angle, apparently:

"Says Ad Hellemons, also Dutch Assistant Commissioner of Police, talking to BBC Radio Five Live Five: "This is the first time the European Commission has made such a recommendation. The vast majority of member states already carry out random breath tests. We can’t understand why governments would want to protect drink-drivers".

"The European Commission has made it clear that they expect this recommendation to be followed. If not they will try to make it a directive". There you have it—you will do as we "recommend", or we will make it compulsory."

When will the three main UK political parties stop pretending that they make the laws, admit that the EU are in charge and either restructure Parliament accordingly (we don't need 650+ MPs any more, how about 200) or leave the EU?