I don't think there's anything wrong with a political system being open to representation from (almost) all parties. It is a fact of globalisation that nations have complex interests in other nations' affairs. So let there be representation.

So, where you confidently talk about the ills of "pandering to foreign interests against the wishes of the UK electorate", I think _that_ is not the problem; the problem is how we have a fair and transparent way of determining what the interest of the UK electorate actually is. This is where the Obrone/Jones work intersects the critical question of democracy in the UK.