It blandly states that some 3,000 to 4,000 statutes passed by parliament over half a century of Britain’s EU membership must now be rewritten by ministers, not parliament, or they will lapse at “sunset” on 31 December this year.
Get on with it then.
It blandly states that some 3,000 to 4,000 statutes passed by parliament over half a century of Britain’s EU membership must now be rewritten by ministers, not parliament, or they will lapse at “sunset” on 31 December this year.
Get on with it then.
At the time of Brexit, it was agreed that, in general, regulatory harmonisation with the EU would remain for the time being
“It was agreed”, eh?
I thought that the corpus of EU law wasn’t large, didn’t have a big impact on the UK and therefore we didn’t need to leave as we already had control. Are they now saying the corpus of EU law is large, has a large impact on the UK and we needed to leave?
I’m confused.
AndrewAgain
No no we couldn’t leave precisely because the corpus of EU law is large and has a large impact on the UK . It is a Gordian knot that has its fingers in every pie.
The worst aspect of Brexit, of course, is that MPs now actually have to do some work.
Dear old Simon Jenkins!
Not remotely perturbed by the transfer of law-making powers from parliament to Brussels.
It was agreed by Parliament by massive margins that the UK would leave the EU on 1/4/19. Obvs, got to have a run-on period to not frighten everyone but how much ‘for the time being’ does Jenkins want?
If they were that important Parliament will find the time.
But weren’t we told that all our laws were not made in Brussels, we’ll only a tiny minority if pushed? In which case Parliament should have the bandwidth.
The longer they can drag out still having all the EU laws on the statute books, the easier it will be for “sir” Beer Korma to obey his masters’ orders and force us back under the Brussels yoke. Overtly or covertly.
As Bloke in Wales says… there is an ulterior motive here.
Much the same as saying it’s better for asylum seekers to work as they can “pay tax”. As semi-literate non-English speaking males with no experience of working in an industrialised economy are so good we should take them instead of using a points scheme. So there must be another motive.
It’s Simon Jenkins..
He hates everyone and everything.
Safely ignored.
Do I have false memory syndrome, or do I really remember a time when Simon Jenkins was sensible?
So just letting them lapse is out of the question? Are we sure we can’t do without regulations that we didn’t ask for and never had a chance to reject?
Jeez, it would be like covid Freedom Day all over again! Do you really want to go through that sort of carnage again?!
Or something.
Do I have false memory syndrome, or do I really remember a time when Simon Jenkins was sensible?
Simon Jenkins wrote “England’s Thousand Best Churches”, which I bought after a marvellous review from Andrew Lloyd Webber in the Daily Telegraph. A pair of fools, especially Jenkins these days, but I will be forever grateful to them for that book and that review. I think that the book might have brought me more enjoyment than any other single thing in my life. Every home should have one.
Oh, and Jenkins had the good fortune to be married to Gayle Hunnicutt for 30 years, which can’t be bad. I saw Hunnicutt as Lady MacBeth in an open air performance at Ludlow Castle in around 1980. She wore a blood-red dress… Sigh…
Bizarrely, all EU laws are written completely undemocratically by a close equivalent to ‘ministers’.
The European Parliament then gets a chance to vote on the result.
How is this a Good Thing for European laws and a Bad Thing for British laws?
BiT – EU good, Britain bad.
Hope that helps x
“Oh, and Jenkins had the good fortune to be married to Gayle Hunnicutt for 30 year”
I REFUSE to believe that !
Even if it is true !
As to Jenkins making sense… well we’re back to the Falklands with him and Max “Hitler” Hastings, who has also gone off at the deep end.
Steve
Can it really be the case that the great and the good of modern British journalism is actually that shallow, incompetent and biased???