Tory plans to scrap most EU laws by the end of 2023, to show that Brexit is being delivered, risk causing untold legal chaos and yet more damage to British businesses, according to the former head of the government’s legal service.
With the country still reeling from the effects of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s disastrous mini-budget, ministers are facing mounting opposition from business groups, environmentalists, legal experts, unions and opposition parties to what is being described as another dangerous, ideologically driven experiment by pro-Brexit Tory rightwingers.
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We really need to start unfucking ourselves.
Whenever I think we can’t *rodger* ourselves further.. shite like this reminds me, we have untapped potential, when it comes to shitting the bed.
Yeah, this is good shit – election 2024 will be won by Boris and it will be a “Brexit referendum” like the last one. Who do you all trust to deliver Brexit? Boris “who already delivered it” and “levelled up the UK but for the attempts of the tofu eating elite” or Keir Starmer who via Jeremy Corbyn will lead us straight back in the EU? Don’t worry about how weird that sounds, the electorate won’t.
When Labour start querying the plans to scrap the laws in 2023 they will be labelled anti Brexit and the public will wring their hands as Farage steps back in again, “this is what we voted for” we say as we sink, hippopotamus like into another dark five years of austerity.
And just think, in 2029 if the Labour leader eats a bacon sandwich wrong, it’s all over again for another five years.
You gotta laugh
More ‘EU red tape’ misdirection Tories are not scrapping EU laws. They are scrapping UK laws that permit level playing field access to the EU market. Most depressingly, Tories could have used their sovereignty and scrapped these level playing field laws while in the EU and fought it out from a position of power inside the EU itself. This was only ever about a small number of politically connected billionaires squeezing the UK dry.
“Britain faces chaos”
Where has this ex-Whitehall legal boss *been* for the past few days/weeks/months/years?
I keep thinking ‘they need to fix themselfs’ and then I remember I live in the uk too..
We are currently shackled to the EU by 2400 laws? Wow, that is a lot of laws to unbind.
Jesus Christ can they give it a rest already. We’ve got a pandemic and a war going on and Christ knows what else. We do not need to be fucking ourselves more.
Scrap it, they aren’t apart of the EU so why are they still following EU laws
And don’t forget going back to imperial measurements, so we can’t tender/compete for work overseas and no one overseas will want to sell to us as they’d have to convert their sizes to imperial at added expense.
Leave it to the British people to bend over and beg to be fucked raw by their betters and to beg even harder when it starts hurting. It’s like serfdom has been bred into the people of this country on a genetic level. It’s genuinely impressive.
The fair and democratic way of sorting out the laws is to look at which ones that UK MEPs voted in favour of and keep then.
This would mean keeping almost all of them as out of the tiny amount of EU laws that they didn’t agree with, most of those are to do with EU budgeting and financing, so aren’t relevant.
Good, the EU is a disgrace, they have lower food standards, why would we want that?
Our country is in turmoil, the only way the Tories can show Brexit has happened is to cut away EU laws. What a joke.
A main reason for Brexit was to get rid of those pesky European human rights laws.
Consequences are a not a good argument against Brexit, because Brexit is an emotional decision.
Maybe we should look at the stability of the EU. Not a single constitutional crisis, the president serving a full term, all parties contributing their part – it may be boring, but it looks much saner than what happens here.
im no expert on this shit, but just sunseting EU laws on which our Government, society and legal system has been based for my entire life, seems like total madness
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No one will know what law is from Westminster alone, and which comes from the EU. Total and utter chaos.
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Lawyers will make so much money.
> Britain faces chaos if it scraps EU laws
Great, we’ll absolutely be scrapping EU laws then, based on this government’s track record. And probably finding a way to blame it on Labour somehow.
On current trends the Eu may demand that on health grounds that the UK be towed much further out to sea.. .
For a start, *practically* speaking the more the country diverges the *more paperwork UK businesses need* to prove UK product is produced to *EU standards.* Less laws are aligned, more laws and production methods much be checked, verified, and prove to be made to importer standards.
Nobody is going to import noncompliant goods, aside from smugglers anyways. And smugglers are deterred by a proper working EU border (tangent: aside from the Irish Sea border, hence their legal challenge.)
Secondly, *diplomatically* speaking, Britain has ratified a Free Trade Agreement that allows the EU to *unilaterally* increase tariffs on products when the UK diverges, at what *the EU* deem are enough to compensate for the divergence.
So they’re saying the sewage on our beaches was just the beginning? Great.