Planes, Trains and T110s

The_Chieftain: It is worth observing, perhaps, that the EU council allocates its votes disproportionately by country as well. It’s not as if Malta or Luxembourg can stop Germany, but they have enough of a weighted vote disproportionate to the larger population states that if they all vote together, they can stop Germany, even though they still have less population combined. The argument of a Wyoming voter having more “power” than a California one applies in the EU as well, but not many people mention it. Similarly, the risk of s “minority vote” winning is inherent in any constituent representative body. It’s not as if such things never happened in the UK, for example. Ask Winston Churchill...