On 06/11/13 17:37, John Rumm wrote:
On 30/10/2013 18:14, harryagain wrote:
"Java Jive" wrote in message
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What is the worst thing that has happened in this country since? 7/7
probably, or the Marchioness disaster, or the people killed by storm
damage in 1987 and a few days ago, or the people killed on the roads,
or by avoidably by lung cancer, etc, etc? The EU has nothing to do
with any of these things.

On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:03:17 -0000, "harryagain"
wrote:

Many of them because of the EU.

We would be able to deport foreign criminals for a start.

If we knew where they were...

We would not have all these stupid regulations for another.

That is debatable.

One of the failures of legislators is that they seem to judge their
performance by the quantity of legislation they generate. It takes much
bolder and unconstrained individuals to decide that the status quo is
actually better than more legislation in the face of vociferous
campaigns from self interest groups demanding the "governement" "do
something".


that's when you create a new Act that essentially 'repeals' tons of
pre-existing garbage that proved to be more or less completely useless.

Te problem today is that if it contravenes a EU Directive*, or worse, a
Regulation**, its pretty much ultra vires***.

* a Directive is an EU decree that parliament gets to rubber stamp.
** a Regulation is an EU decree that happens without parliament even
debating it.
*** Ultre vires is a legal term meaning 'you didn't have the authority
for that, and it is therefore null and void and never legally happened'.




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