Posted on 08/18/2019 3:20:07 PM PDT by 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.
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We were in Scotland recently. On a tour our bus driver went into a long rant about Brexit. He said the Scots are NOT in favor of it & they will very likely push for another vote to become an independent state & this time it will be successful. We didn’t bother to argue with him, but good luck to Scotland if the do exit the UK. You don’t need a another layer of gov’t to have free trade laws.
A California judge ruled the change unEU and issued an injunction
Now they all belong to the queen again
Well, can't say they rushed the decision.
the teapot tale was a euromyth
The headline of the Daily Express warned that the EU may ban kettles. Which sounds like something that would strike right at the heart of British culture.
The reality, however,is a bit less sensational. An EU commission that was investigating the energy consumption of kettles and may have (or rather at that point might have) suggested regulations that would make kettles more energy efficient and improve their impact on the environment.
In the end no suggestions were made
Heads will roll............The Powers in Brussels will not allow this....................
The main reason depended on whom you asked.
As per what the majority of those who SAID they voted Leave in 2016, said in 2016, it was immigration by nationals of other EU countries that was the most given reason.
This is understandable - in the ten years after 2004 you had nearly 2 million Central Europeans moving to the UK. Central Europeans countries joined in 2004 and the EU gave countries like the UK, France, Germany, netherlands the ability to hold off on immigration for 4 years and also to evict EU immigrants who didn’t have a job in 3 weeks. Germany and the Netherlands implemented these rules. The UK didn’t. So people went to the UK to work.
The people who lost the jobs were largely the white-van drivers. There became the stereotype of the Polish plumber - a guy who could give you quality work at a low price any time of the day. Before 2004, when I lived in Sussex, you were terrified of hiring white van blokes - they’d overcharge and never complete the work
They do have their own laws. Every eu regulation is
1. open for veto by every EU country - so the UK could veto a new regulation
2. needs to pass by a country’s legislative - and it can be interpreted any way the country wants.
Wow.
Well it looks like a hard BRexit is coming now.
At least that’s the way it appears.
Can they deport their resident terrorist population now? At least do it half way. Across the channel...
Read later.
it’s a stereotype today. the Uk drinks a lot more coffee than it once did. And per capita poles and Russians drink more tea than the English today.
it’s a stereotype today. the Uk drinks a lot more coffee than it once did. And per capita poles and Russians drink more tea than the English today.
BUT, the English and Indian black teas are the best in my opinion.
the best black teas around are:
1. York tea (that’s a label) - very strong and good.
2. Brooke bond red label from India
3. Tetley tea - Indo-British
4. PG tips - British
The worst, absolutely worst tea is Lipton yellow label - utter swill imho
I kinda figured it was a stereotype.
But DIDNT know that about Russia and Poland.
Interesting.
The EU is waiting for the UK to leave the EU. The problem was — the UK kept begging to stay. It begged on March 31 and then on May 7 and in June. The fear was that they would beg again on October 31 (still a possibility if an outside one) and the other countries couldn’t be seen to refuse.
Let’s hope BoJo doesn’t beg for another extension
I liked some teas with a little milk but it never became a habit.
I NEVER drank coffee.
I drink too much of that pi$$, diet soda.
The triangle trade was insidious - the Brits used india as a captive supplier and manufacturer and then sold to the Chinese. The Brits kept all the profits as a drug lord.
It’s amazing if you think about it - it’s as if the Venezuelan drug lords had a powerful navy and forced the USA to take drugs - the Brits did just that to the Qing.
That’s why the Bengal famines occured — before British rule started there in 1757 there were no famines and the area was among the richest in the world. After 1757 they increased taxes from 10% to 45% then 55% and then made it a flat value no matter whether the crops succeeded or failed.
There were multiple famines in Bengal (what is now Bangladesh + Indian states of West Bengal and Bihar) but none post 1947.
firstly, the line is false
1. the UK is part of the EU and had and has full veto rights to veto any regulation made
2. Even if the UK then allowed it, the regulations can be interpreted any way by the individual country parliaments and then implemented as that country interpreted it.
And as to who got the UK into the EU
In the 1950s France, Germany and the Benelux countries formed the EEC (precursor to the EU) with the EXPLICIT statement of “ever closer union”
At the same time the UK and the Scandinavian countries formed the EFTA - a free trade union
By the 1960s the UK economy was in a shambles and the EFTA was way, way behind the EU economically.
So the UK decided to dump the EFTA and join the EU.
This was first rejected by de Gaulle.
Then the UK begged again to join when De Gaulle left and they joined in 1972
67% of the British voted to be part of the “ever closer union” — yes, more than 2/3rds of the British voting public voted to be part of the EEC to be EU
They knew about the “ever closer union” - that was clearly stated as the goal of the EU from it’s inception.
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