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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Yeah, these things are nonsensical any way you want to look at them. What difference does it really make how much energy some home in the UK wants to use to boil water? It’s really just insane that someone would even try to regulate it.
And I understand that they were trying to create some sort of uniformity so that goods could travel freely throughout Europe. But really this is a question for the market to decide. And until they all start to use the same kinds of electric sockets there will always be some market fragmentation. So any way I look at it, it’s totally asinine regulation.
Unlike Theresa May, who was always a Remainer,
Johnson is serious about leaving. Bravo.
Let’s hope it goes through. It’s one thing to say it, another to do it.
Immigration and right of passage within the EU, I think.
Immigration and right of passage within the EU, I think.
A true act of independence.
Bravo!
Rule Britannia!
Is she into 44 year old blue collar guys?...
I’ll ask her when she arrives...but don’t get your hopes up.
Indeed
I bet she is, as long as you have two digits followed by two commas.
That damned Trump. He’s embolding everyone!!!
If they don’t, there will be riots. It would be such a blatant contempt of a democratic mandate that it would lay naked the illusion of democracy and the right of the people to choose who governs us. I Bojo seems pretty determined to deliver it and his political career, and the survival of the Conservative party depends on them doing it. I believe the more likely scenario is that the globalists will try to make an example of us to bring the British economy to it’s knees as a warning to all who would dare to attempt the same. Pelosi is apparently already getting on board with this plan using the Irish backstop/GFA as an excuse to block a trade deal with the US. They are planning economic warfare against the UK.
I wonder at what point they’ll de-arse their heads and start getting the muslim vermin out of their country (aka Tommy Robinson)
Was that all that damn hard?
The EU wasn’t just coming for the Brits’ electric kettles. It was coming for their kettles, their vacuum cleaners, their hair dryers, their AC, they’re memes, they’re hyperlinks...
If the Brits have had enough, I’m bloody glad to hear it.
Boris had better get some damn good body guards.
Boris had better get some damn good body guards.
Only if Trump stays in office
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