Posted on 03/29/2017 11:17:39 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The government is due to set out how it plans to remove EU law from the statute book when it publishes details of its Great Repeal Bill later.
Having formally triggered Brexit, ministers are promising a "smooth and stable transition" with legislation ending the supremacy of EU judges.
It will also incorporate thousands of pieces of EU law into UK legislation.
The publication comes the day after the UK started two years of talks using Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
they got their marching orders...the peasants be damned...
She called for a "deep and special partnership that takes in both economic and security co-operation", and also warned the failure to reach a deal could weaken the joint fight against crime and terrorism.EU condemns May’s ‘blackmail’ over security cooperation
Having formally triggered Brexit, ministers are promising a "smooth and stable transition"http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-article-50-angela-merkel-rejects-theresa-may-parallel-talks-a7656506.html
The TUC urged the government to ensure the repeal bill was used to maintain all existing EU workers' protections.Theresa May says she cannot guarantee immigration will be significantly lower after Brexit
Theresa May says she cannot guarantee immigration will be significantly lower after BrexitBrexit is teaching the UK that it needs immigrants
Ehhhhh... wasn't DIS-incorporating from EU law kind of the POINT of Brexit?
Crafting laws is a bother, they can’t be arsed about that.
Eventually, yes. But in the short term, EU regulations need to be incorporated into British law in many cases to ensure a smooth transition. Once that is done, Parliament will have the power to amend that legislation, rather than having to try to introduce potentially hundreds of gap filling bills. Brexit is happening in two years, and two years just isn’t enough time to dismantle forty years of regulations. Most serious issues will be dealt with first.
“Parliament will have the power to amend that legislation”
Right, just like the Congress will clean out the federal registry starting next week.
England got along for over a thousand years without the EU. Why does it need any EU laws.
I understand the scepticism - and I share it to some extent. The British government likes regulation as much as any other. But the only practical path to amending the regulations or giving Ministers of the Crown to power to change them (in cases where they can be changed by Ministerial directive), requires them to be incorporated into British law first. Because of existing Acts passed since the late 1970s, they already have the force of law in the UK, and that doesn’t automatically change where the UK leaves the EU. They’d remain in force unaltered because of the way they’ve already been incorporated into law, by the previous governments that assumed Britain would remain in the EU.
Yes, it’s reasonable to be worried that they’ll never get around to amending all of them, but they have to take this step first to even make it possible.
Because in the years between the late 1970s and today, on many occasions, existing British law was altered to match EU law (often without Parliament having any power to stop it). When that has happened, the laws that existed before it happened, ceased to have effect. And simply getting rid of the EU rules that replaced them, doesn’t put them back into effect.
One of the most important reasons people like myself supported Brexit was because of things like this - of EU laws and regulations replacing British laws - that will no longer happen, but a significant amount of damage has already been done and it can’t be fixed overnight.
There are also some EU regulations that may actually be worth keeping - in many cases, some British laws haven’t had the chance to be updated by Parliament in forty years and the EU rules are sometimes an improvement on the status quo of the 1970s.
There are also some cases where EU regulations were actually copied from British law.
Sounds familiar.. patriot act garbage.
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