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  By their very nature most large institutions especially transnational ones are a mass of compromises between rival interests and over time these compromises often encourage friction against or indifference to the rules and often an ever growing bureaucracy ; we have seen this with the EU, the UN and even national governments.
  It takes a very particular political and organisational mindset to keep these types of organisations slim, trim and on an even keel, sadly something that many who seek political office do not have, hence the antipathy towards and lies about the EU (or for our US brethren the UN).
  The EU (by which I mostly mean the Commission & Parliament) is in so many ways less dysfunctional and corrupt than our House of Commons and Civil Service; to be fair on certain things it displays a sort of organisational neurosis that defies logic (e.g CAP). As Ray pointed out these failings were all resolvable especially if the UK had taken a much more active role in defining the future course of Europe, but it appears we were happy to rest on out laurels having got the single market mostly how we wanted it; this allowed mountebanks and charlatans like Farage, Cummings, Gove and Johnson to sell us a set of emperors new clothes.

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