The problem with satirical articles like that is that they could end just as easily end with "by order of the U.K. government.

i have no more say over edicts coming from one than I do the other. 

It's not the quantity of legislation I'm interested in, it's the quality and quite frankly I have no real faith in either the EU nor the UK. 

The standard argument against the above is that if we don't like what's being done in the UK we have a vote and can change things but that is a total nonsense as well. 

For instance how many can remember who they even voted for at the last PCC election, they can possibly remember the party but not the person - I've just been to vote at today's election and the ballot paper has the party emblem to each candidates name - what has the party the individuals belong to got to do with their ability to carry out the job?