More People Than Swansea

Via Open Europe, I see that the EU now employs more people than the UK army:

In total there are far more people working for the EU (170,000) than in the UK army (107,000).

That's good. I mean, the EU needs to employ more people than the UK army. The UK army does next to nothing, aside from fighting in hostile war zones under great pressure. The EU, however, has a vast, monolithic and basically unaccountable bureaucracy to run. I know which one I would want to employ more people.

Open Europe also notes another interesting stat:

Swansea, for instance, has roughly the same number of inhabitants as the EU employs.

I went to Swansea once for a night out. Waiting at the bus stop having waded through McDonalds wrappers to get there, surrounded by people who believe binge drinking is not just a right but a duty every Saturday was pretty fucking special. However, I think there is a case to be made for making the inhabitants of Swansea the people who run the EU. After all, the decision they make could hardly be any more arbitrary, pointless and intrusive than the current employees of the EU manage.