*Steven Swinford, Political Editor, January 14 2023, The Times*
Rishi Sunak is facing a revolt from Tory MPs over his plans to scrap thousands of EU laws by the end of the year amid warnings that it will erode parliamentary sovereignty.
David Davis, a former Brexit secretary, and Sir Robert Buckland, a former justice secretary, have joined a cross-party bid to force the government to spell out exactly which laws it plans to scrap, amend or keep.
As many as 4,000 pieces of legislation on the British statute books are derived from EU laws. MPs are concerned that the laws will automatically be scrapped at the end of the year without any discussion or scrutiny by MPs.
Tory MPs have signed a cross-party amendment to the Retained EU Law Bill. They include Davis, Buckland, Dan Poulter and Sir Bob Neill, chairman of the justice select committee. Hilary Benn, a senior Labour MP, has also signed it, together with Stella Creasy, who is leading on the amendment. It will be debated next week.
Buckland told The Times: “I understand that this bill is an important next stage in terms of clarifying the law and making sure the regulations we need are retained.”
Creasy, chairwoman of the Labour Movement for Europe, said: “If this bill goes through, it will drive a coach and horses through parliamentary sovereignty — something we were told would be improved by Brexit.
“It gives ministers, not MPs, the control of very thousands of laws that cover everyday life — when my constituents come to me asking whether they will have maternity rights, or clean water to drink, or even the right to paid holiday in a year’s time, I want to be able to tell them that that decision will rest with MPs, not ministers and civil servants.”
The government has committed to removing about 4,000 pieces of EU- derived law from the British statute book by December. Ministers will have to decide which they want to retain, which to scrap and which to change.
However, the scale of the task means that it is increasingly seen in Whitehall as an impossible deadline, with internal estimates that thousands of officials will have to be diverted to review legislation on a full-time basis.
A senior government source told The Times earlier this month that it is inevitable that the government will have to abandon its plans when the legislation reaches the Lords, which is expected next month. Peers have raised significant concerns about the plans.
“If the object is to review all these regulations properly rather than just cut and paste them into UK law then we’ll need more time,” a source said. “It’s an entirely arbitrary deadline.”
Three departments are expected to extend the deadline — the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for Transport and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
> “If the object is to review all these regulations properly rather than just cut and paste them into UK law then we’ll need more time,” a source said. “It’s an entirely arbitrary deadline.”
It’s not an arbitrary deadline, it’s an “oh fuck, there’s an election in 2024 and we’ve got fuck all to show for over a decade in power” deadline.
Even former Ministers don’t like it when they’re not the Ministers able to remove or modify laws at whim without any supervision.
Good, it needs proper debate otherwise we will get stitched up, again!…
Cue this nonsense until summer 2024 when the Tories pull Boris out of a wardrobe in utter desperation.
‘Look everybody, it’s the happy laughing man again! Yay!’
“It gives ministers, not MPs, the control of very thousands of laws that cover everyday life — when my constituents come to me asking whether they will have maternity rights, or clean water to drink, or even the right to paid holiday in a year’s time, I want to be able to tell them that that decision will rest with MPs, not ministers and civil servants.”
Wait.. let’s read that sentence back. They think that maternity rights, or clean water, are *decisions to be made*?
How far down the rabbit hole would you have to be to think that it’s a sane thing to vote on whether someone has clean water?
He could have simply said “Those things are not up for debate, don’t worry”.
Some of these threads make me weep. Is no one paying attention for longer than a month? Brexit is about a regulatory bonfire. Rights, protections, standards, they’re all headed for the conflagration that Brexit represents. We’re not “sleepwalking” into this situation, this is a key step in the destruction of life in the UK and millions of people voted for it. They want to have rights and freedoms removed. They want lower standards in terms of food safety and the environment. They want no working restrictions in terms of time. They want complete deregulation despite not knowing what that actually is, entails or affects them.
Can you all please try to not be goldfish. These cunts in government need you to be disconnected from their stated plans by being distracted by footie, wedge topics that affect a small minority of people, the latest reality TV shows and a carefully managed spat between *feuding Royal siblings.
Thanks
*allegedly
I would like to see a general strike to remove this dangerously incompetent government.
They leaving the EU anyway, so is Rishni not right to bring in rules for the benefit of The British people. Remember there has been an exit, creating a place for what was voted for in the first place.
Those MPs should have known this was coming though. A key point of Brexit was scrapping EU laws and replacing them with a British Bill of Rights, so either these MPs were naive enough to think this would not happen or are backpedalling now they realised what they signed up for.
If they do go ahead with this insanity it’s going to drive up the costs of everything. Even more than project here already has.
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*Steven Swinford, Political Editor, January 14 2023, The Times*
Rishi Sunak is facing a revolt from Tory MPs over his plans to scrap thousands of EU laws by the end of the year amid warnings that it will erode parliamentary sovereignty.
David Davis, a former Brexit secretary, and Sir Robert Buckland, a former justice secretary, have joined a cross-party bid to force the government to spell out exactly which laws it plans to scrap, amend or keep.
As many as 4,000 pieces of legislation on the British statute books are derived from EU laws. MPs are concerned that the laws will automatically be scrapped at the end of the year without any discussion or scrutiny by MPs.
Tory MPs have signed a cross-party amendment to the Retained EU Law Bill. They include Davis, Buckland, Dan Poulter and Sir Bob Neill, chairman of the justice select committee. Hilary Benn, a senior Labour MP, has also signed it, together with Stella Creasy, who is leading on the amendment. It will be debated next week.
Buckland told The Times: “I understand that this bill is an important next stage in terms of clarifying the law and making sure the regulations we need are retained.”
Creasy, chairwoman of the Labour Movement for Europe, said: “If this bill goes through, it will drive a coach and horses through parliamentary sovereignty — something we were told would be improved by Brexit.
“It gives ministers, not MPs, the control of very thousands of laws that cover everyday life — when my constituents come to me asking whether they will have maternity rights, or clean water to drink, or even the right to paid holiday in a year’s time, I want to be able to tell them that that decision will rest with MPs, not ministers and civil servants.”
The government has committed to removing about 4,000 pieces of EU- derived law from the British statute book by December. Ministers will have to decide which they want to retain, which to scrap and which to change.
However, the scale of the task means that it is increasingly seen in Whitehall as an impossible deadline, with internal estimates that thousands of officials will have to be diverted to review legislation on a full-time basis.
A senior government source told The Times earlier this month that it is inevitable that the government will have to abandon its plans when the legislation reaches the Lords, which is expected next month. Peers have raised significant concerns about the plans.
“If the object is to review all these regulations properly rather than just cut and paste them into UK law then we’ll need more time,” a source said. “It’s an entirely arbitrary deadline.”
Three departments are expected to extend the deadline — the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for Transport and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
> “If the object is to review all these regulations properly rather than just cut and paste them into UK law then we’ll need more time,” a source said. “It’s an entirely arbitrary deadline.”
It’s not an arbitrary deadline, it’s an “oh fuck, there’s an election in 2024 and we’ve got fuck all to show for over a decade in power” deadline.
Even former Ministers don’t like it when they’re not the Ministers able to remove or modify laws at whim without any supervision.
Good, it needs proper debate otherwise we will get stitched up, again!…
Cue this nonsense until summer 2024 when the Tories pull Boris out of a wardrobe in utter desperation.
‘Look everybody, it’s the happy laughing man again! Yay!’
“It gives ministers, not MPs, the control of very thousands of laws that cover everyday life — when my constituents come to me asking whether they will have maternity rights, or clean water to drink, or even the right to paid holiday in a year’s time, I want to be able to tell them that that decision will rest with MPs, not ministers and civil servants.”
Wait.. let’s read that sentence back. They think that maternity rights, or clean water, are *decisions to be made*?
How far down the rabbit hole would you have to be to think that it’s a sane thing to vote on whether someone has clean water?
He could have simply said “Those things are not up for debate, don’t worry”.
Some of these threads make me weep. Is no one paying attention for longer than a month? Brexit is about a regulatory bonfire. Rights, protections, standards, they’re all headed for the conflagration that Brexit represents. We’re not “sleepwalking” into this situation, this is a key step in the destruction of life in the UK and millions of people voted for it. They want to have rights and freedoms removed. They want lower standards in terms of food safety and the environment. They want no working restrictions in terms of time. They want complete deregulation despite not knowing what that actually is, entails or affects them.
Can you all please try to not be goldfish. These cunts in government need you to be disconnected from their stated plans by being distracted by footie, wedge topics that affect a small minority of people, the latest reality TV shows and a carefully managed spat between *feuding Royal siblings.
Thanks
*allegedly
I would like to see a general strike to remove this dangerously incompetent government.
They leaving the EU anyway, so is Rishni not right to bring in rules for the benefit of The British people. Remember there has been an exit, creating a place for what was voted for in the first place.
Those MPs should have known this was coming though. A key point of Brexit was scrapping EU laws and replacing them with a British Bill of Rights, so either these MPs were naive enough to think this would not happen or are backpedalling now they realised what they signed up for.
If they do go ahead with this insanity it’s going to drive up the costs of everything. Even more than project here already has.