Defies belief

I used to be a fan of The Common Market, way back when, but I really do not like what has developed in its place. The EU is a hopeless pile (fill in the missing words), an organisation that has never had its accounts signed off. A situation that if translated into the real world would debarr it legally as an institution.
If you read this article it pretty much typifies my disgust at what's happening. Our elected government has to wait for some unelected bureaucrats in Brussels to give it the OK to start installing high speed broadband in rural communities. WTF?
We have slowly given up the right to control ourselves, make our own sensible decisions and decide what we can do in our own country without approval from Brussels. We have managed quite well for hundreds of years without the need to ask someone's opinion or authority.
It's an absolute nonsense and we go along with it. Don't get me started.