Brexit Secretary Signs Order To Scrap 1972 Brussels Act - Ending All EU Law In The UK

Gov.UK ^ | 08/18/19

[Enlightened1]

The 1972 Act is the vehicle that sees regulations flow into UK law directly from the EU’s lawmaking bodies in Brussels.

The announcement of the Act’s repeal marks a historic step in returning lawmaking powers from Brussels to the UK. We are taking back control of our laws, as the public voted for in 2016.

The repeal of the European Communities Act 1972 will take effect when Britain formally leaves the EU on October 31.

Speaking after signing the legislation that will crystallise in law the upcoming repeal of the ECA, the Secretary of State for Exiting the EU Steve Barclay said:

This is a clear signal to the people of this country that there is no turning back - we are leaving the EU as promised on October 31, whatever the circumstances - delivering on the instructions given to us in 2016.

The votes of 17.4 million people deciding to leave the EU is the greatest democratic mandate ever given to any UK Government. Politicians cannot choose which public votes they wish to respect. Parliament has already voted to leave on 31 October. The signing of this legislation ensures that the EU Withdrawal Act will repeal the European Communities Act 1972 on exit day.

The ECA saw countless EU regulations flowing directly into UK law for decades, and any government serious about leaving on October 31 should show their commitment to repealing it.

That is what we are doing by setting in motion that repeal. This is a landmark moment in taking back control of our laws from Brussels.

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/brexit-secretary-signs-order-to-scrap-1972-brussels-act-ending-all-eu-law-in-the-uk

 

[dp0622]

I have tried black tea and green tea and other various types.

I like tea.

Just never think to have it most of the time.

Some are supposed to be pretty good for you.

[veracious]

Praise God (YHVH)!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cronos]

Deviating from the topic of the thread, but I’m ticked off that due to the LGBT pushing themelseves it has become that men can’t express appreciation for beauty. Come on, there were many male artists - and quite a few were notorious womanizers.

I went to the Procter and Gamble office today and they’re festooned with GALBT posters with rainbows.

[Winniesboy]

Probably. But these are murky waters, constitutionally. On the face of it there’s no way Brexit can happen without the approval of Parliament (’nothing can be done which Parliament may not undo’) since Parliament is sovereign. But there are some who argue that there are getarounds. There’ll certainly be an almighty row if Johnson really does try to bypass Parliament completely - there’ll be accusations of a coup, etc. Effectively it would mean that direct democracy (the referendum) replaces representative democracy in constitutional authority.
While the Speaker’s powers are extensive, they’re largely procedural. However, the current speaker is a maverick with a high opinion of himself and his office, and he’s already broken with precedent on more than one occasion. What he can’t do is force the government to do anything, or prevent the government from doing something, outside Parliament.

[Winniesboy]

Coffee consumption in the UK is now 250% higher than tea consumption (2.1bn coffees, 874m teas - that’s outside the home. Apparently). And the ritual of ‘afternoon tea’ died about 40 years ago.

[bIlluminati]

Major causes for Brexit:
1. Immigration to to take advantage of the socialist welfare state. London is longer British in any meaningful way.
2. EU regulations that gave fishing rights in U.K. waters to foreigners, and many other regulations that hurt U.K. business.
3. Destruction of free speech. British do like to speak freely, and the shut up and take it movement ran into resistance.

But mostly immigration and the resulting crime wave.

[dp0622]

40 years ago!!

I would guess 9 out of 10 Americans would swear that most Brits have their afternoon tea and biscuits!

Well, those Americans who knew WHAT and WHERE England is.

[Cronos]

I think that’s a pity. I still love the old Carry on series and their stereotypes,

[Winniesboy]

The tea market here has moved on in the decade or so since you were here. Now the tea (and, for that matter, coffee) shelves in even the ordinary chain supermarkets look like a wine merchants - named organic single estate specialities from a particular hill in Sri Lanka, etc etc. There is now even tea grown in Cornwall - small quantities, high price.
Actually the tea plant (related to Camellia) is a temperate zone shrub - it can only be grown in India, Ceylon etc in the wet temperate uplands. The Brits started growing it there because it needs lots of land and labour - both in plentiful supply.

[arthurus]

That is what I hope happens. No deal. Any deal will turn out to be just as onerous as membership.

[HKMk23]

...triangle trade...

SPEAKING of which — here’s a quirky-cool blast from the electronic past (NO, it’s not a virus, ggeeeezz):

http://www.taipangame.com/

Try not to get addicted.

[Sam Gamgee]

So it’s done and over now?

[Sam Gamgee]

Yes but let’s face it, the UK has lost anyways against the Sharia state push.

[Oatka]

. . . a lot of talk about how Brussels was making so many regulations on how a teapot should be made.
Don’t know if that is true or note - but if you want to tick of a Brit, mess with their tea.

Yeah, Brussels was going to save the world by reducing the power used by electric tea pots, banning any with high wattage. They were talking about vacuum cleaners, toasters and other household appliances the same way.

And who can forget the now rescinded bent banana and curved cucumber rules, wherein the curve could only be so many degrees or it was deemed "deformed" and unsaleable.

[monkeyshine]

Oh My - that was my absolute favorite game as a kid. I found they had made it compatible with Android and had it on one of my devices a couple years ago too. Loved it. Hated when my ship got raided by the authorities ;-)

[Cronos]

That’s an exaggeration.

[Cronos]

To also elaborate on how explicitly political unity the EEC was -- the UK left the EFTA (a free trade association) explicitly to join the EEC and people voted on that and 67% voted to join the "ever closer union"

Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 1967:

Whatever the economic arguments, the House will realise that, as I have repeatedly made clear, the Government’s purpose derives above all from our recognition that Europe is now faced with the opportunity of a great move forward in political unity and that we can — and indeed must — play our full part in it.

And the UK government in 1975 before the referendum on remaining in the "ever closer political union" sent out leaflets saying

“if the political implications of joining Europe are at present clearest in the economic field, it is because the Community is primarily concerned with economic policy. But it is inevitable that the scope should broaden as member countries’ interests become harmonised […] What is proposed is a sharing and an enlargement of individual national sovereignties in the general interest”.

And the LEAVE i.e. the no side sent out this

you can also read the Daily Mail editorial Wednesday 4 June 1975 that said

The anti-marketeers have a grim lack of faith in Britain's ability to hold her own inside the Market...

They speak as if the EEC's eventual goal of political union was a dark secret to be sprung on us when our back was turned

Haven't they been listening to the visionary words of European leaders for the past twenty-five years? Didn't they hear Churchill say "If Europe united is to be a living force, Britain will have to play her full part as a member of the European family?"

Political union will not come unless and until we - and the French and the Germans - are ready for it. And we're nowhere near ready for it now, and a lot of us probably won't live to see it.

That is the political reality. And everyone knows it. That is why political union is not much of a live issue now.

But if and when our children or our children's children want to join Europe into one integrated nation, we shall have left them something more practical than a dream. We shall have left them the joiner's tools and a political roof over their heads.
The EC was explicitly political and had been since 1957 when it was formed and as its predecessor the ECSC was in 1951.

In 1957 you already had

• The ECJ
• contribution to the EC budget
• shared sovereignty
• Common fisheries policy
• freedom of movement
• customs union (and no independent trade deals for signee countries)

It was there before the UK joined, the UK KNEW it was there and they signed up and had a referendum to stay.

Now they want to go, ok, fine, they SHOULD go, but let's not kid ourselves that all of this political union was unknown in the past - it wasn't and it was not covered up in any way

[Winniesboy]

That’s putting it rather mildly. Utter codswallop would be better.

[Cronos]

The problem is that folks who may only watch the media get a distorted view of other countries.

the view among many in the US is that the UK is overrun by Muslims and a slave to the EU ignoring the fact that the UK has 5% Muslims (compared to 1% of the US) and that while there are problems, this isn’t the same as “overrun by Sharia”

My recent experiences in the UK were mixed
> In Brighton on a short visit - no skullcaps or burkhas seen
> in the countryside, Lake district a few years ago - again, no skullcaps/burkhas
> in London last October - quite a few, but the incident that struck me was - I was in a small store near Paddington station (run by indians) and some delivery guy came and asked for delivery. When he found out it was alcohol, he refused. looked very fair skinned Afghani. THAT struck me

So to me it looks like there are parts of London (and probably Birmingham) that are heavily Moslem, but no “sharia law no go zones”

[Da_Shrimp]

EU regulations that gave fishing rights in U.K. waters to foreigners, and many other regulations that hurt U.K. business.

Nope. British fishing rights were SOLD by the rich families that owned them. It makes me laugh that the EU gets blamed for everything, when it was our own rich elites that did it in order to get richer.

Britain sold our fish quotas for a quick buck

We can veto any regulations the EU wishes to impose on us.

Boris the Clown has been lying about the EU for years, too. A couple of weeks ago he was waving a kipper around saying that EU regulations require kipper suppliers to keep their products cool with ice pillows when they are delivered. These regulations are the UK's OWN RULES and the EU has nothing to do with them at all. It's a complete farce.