To understand how the mechanisms of political power have been harnessed, let’s consider the single vote from the United Kingdom in favour of ACTA. Yes, one British MEP voted in favour of ACTA (the rest voted against or abstained). In a vote where Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and even UKIP were unusually united, the one lone voter was actually Bill Newton Dunn, a Liberal Democrat MEP.

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