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To: backwoods-engineer

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

I forgot...who got the UK into that filthy EU in the first place?


21 posted on 08/18/2019 3:51:36 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker

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


in 1975 the UK had a referendum on whether it should stay in the “ever closer union”

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.


100 posted on 08/19/2019 7:17:23 AM PDT by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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