Brexit complexity could overwhelm senior politicians. So it’s quite hard, then?
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A British bulldog toy at a pro-EU demonstration in London in October. The group suggests its report will ‘identify potential stumbling blocks’ in the Brexit process [Image: Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA].
It seems clear, therefore, that Brexit must be beyond their meagre talents.
I mean, take the Great Repeal Bill. Hasn’t anybody had the wit to point out to Theresa May that it repeals nothing?
It actually solidifies in UK law every single rule and regulation the EU has sent our way.
So ‘Leave’ campaigners are getting the exact opposite of what they wanted. They’re not losing ‘red tape’; they’re being tied up in it.
Any repeal of these rules, regulations and whatnot won’t happen until afterwards – and probably at a snail’s pace.
If the Tories can’t even get their own definitions right, what hope is there for international negotiations?
Managing Britain’s exit from the European Union is such a formidable and complex challenge that it could overwhelm politicians and civil servants for years, senior academics have warned.
Theresa May has announced she will trigger article 50 – the two-year process of negotiating a separation from the EU – by the end of March next year. The government will also publish a great repeal bill, which will transfer all EU-originated laws into British law, so that MPs can decide how much they want to discard.
A report from The UK in a Changing Europe, an independent group of academics led by Prof Anand Menon of King’s College London, warns that this will only be the start of the process of extricating Britain from the EU and establishing new relationships with other member states.
Source: Brexit so complex it could overwhelm politicians, warn senior academics | Politics | The Guardian
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The EU-originated laws have already been accepted by our Parliament. The whole thing is a Tory manufactured nonsense from people who just cannot accept that Britain is neither an Imperial Power or a World Power, and has not been for many decades – since 1945 at least. They are unable to work alongside people from other nations, unless they are clinging to America’s shirt tails or lording it over them.
Regarding your first sentence, that is exactly what I thought as well. I don’t see any harm in setting it all in stone so there can be no doubt about these rules’ veracity – but I don’t see how they can call a law that adds so much to the Statute Book a ‘Great Repeal Bill’.
Mike,
Where are the Tories getting their legal advice from? The Attorney-General should be giving them sound legal advice. Instead, Mayc&Co seem to be making it up as they go along! Great Repeal Act is nothing but a PR wheeze intended to blindside us.If it wasn’t so serious it would be hilarious.
Ah, but are we forgetting that the Conservatives and even Labour have a lot of Eton educated chaps? Like Cameron and Tony Blair – great with the “long con” but hopeless in a situation that requires real intellect rather than savvy, cunning deceit.
So I guess we’re – what’s the word I’m looking for……..