EU president tusk: Nothing annoys a fascist wanna-bi dictator like freedom.
Posted on 03/26/2017 10:07:12 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Ministers are braced for a battle over plans to ditch a swathe of EU laws using “Henry VIII” powers.
The government is set to unveil details of the “Great Repeal Bill” this week, part of the formal process of cutting ties with Brussels.
The legislation will convert all EU law on to the UK statute books. But ministers also want to be able to adapt the laws as they are repatriated without full scrutiny by parliament.
Jeremy Corbyn indicated that Labour will oppose the plans today, saying government should not be extending executive powers used by a “dictatorial and anti-democratic” king. …
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Never accept a Willy or a Sam.
EU president tusk: Nothing annoys a fascist wanna-bi dictator like freedom.
Herman’s Hermits “I’m Henry VIII, I Am” on The Ed Sullivan Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GisCRxREDkY
The Great Repeal Bill. We gotta get us one of those.
Does the Magna Carta no longer mean anything to the Brits?
It certainly never meant anything to EU bureaucrats.
What the Brits are objecting to here is a government in which they have no part making binding laws for their country. In other words, no taxation without representation.
And every one was an Henry (Henry)
She wouldn’t have a Willy or a Sam (No Sam)
I’m her eighth old man, I’m Henry
Henry the eighth I am
21st century Europeans are too blinded by hubris and denial and their new religion, viz. "secularism" or "groupthink" or "the Decadence of Western Civilization" or whatever they want call it, to see that they are rushing inexorably into the same horrors that they endured in the past and will relive in the future.
The election of President Trump is the Americans' proclamation that America will not follow them down that well traveled Road to Hell--well paved with good intentions!
Europe is on the Road to Hell, driven yet again by her incurable suicidal madness. America will not follow her--and the American People are not likely to send their sons to die yet again to rescue Europe from her insanity.
Henry VIII was a tyrant and a madman. He was the typical lib who, if he couldn’t get his way, he changed the laws to suit his needs.
Ah good. A good old fashioned Bun fight should erupt over this.
The Government argues it needs the power as a significant proportion of existing EU law will not work properly without changes being made, so ministers must be given the ability to make 'technical' changes quickly.
That makes it a new law...therefore it must go before Parliament.
Nope...not a fascist,a Communist.There *is* a difference although,admittedly,not always a huge one.
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