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Which is why many people will vote out.pugh-the-special-one said:Having a free and open market is a very good thing, but I didn't remember them telling me that a unelected group of people in Brussels will make decisions and create laws and dictate what we can or cannot do in the UK I'm 100% sure if the UK public were told that from day one no one in their right mind would have agreed.
pugh-the-special-one said:Having a free and open market is a very good thing, but I didn't remember them telling me that a unelected group of people in Brussels will make decisions and create laws and dictate what we can or cannot do in the UK I'm 100% sure if the UK public were told that from day one no one in their right mind would have agreed.
Count of Undolpho said:There is little regulation "forced upon us" most of the EU stuff comes out as recommendations which are then left up to the local Government to enforce ..or not. All EU members get to vote on such "legislation" and we have a hand in them rather than being helpless in the face of Brussels.
Many of the "regulations" that people decry are about making sure all member states follow the same rules for the same products/industries etc thus meaning producers only have to make one version for all countries and buyers can buy in confidence. c.f. the "bent banana" and jam jar stories.
Equally the EU cannot overrule our elected government it doesn't have the power - it does have some capacity to make our government actually fulfil things it has promised to do. Like stay within the regulations it helps to write.
If we left the EU but still wanted to trade with the EU we'd still have to follow the regulations; if we had different regulations to the EU people who traded with us would have to make different products for us and Europe - would they bother?
To clarify a point that often confuses; the European Court of Human Rights is nothing to do with the EU and is something we helped to set up. ECHR does have the right to overrule the UK government if they do something which is illegal under the Laws we helped to create and agreed to abide by c.f. Abu Hamza.
Count of Undolpho said:To clarify a point that often confuses; the European Court of Human Rights is nothing to do with the EU and is something we helped to set up. ECHR does have the right to overrule the UK government if they do something which is illegal under the Laws we helped to create and agreed to abide by c.f. Abu Hamza.
soapalchemist said:one would have to question whether we are a civilised society.
soapalchemist said:+1 Pigcat. O.K. I said it. :huh:
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