Monday, June 27, 2016

Guys

So Boris Johnson - if not outright lying - did telegraph it during the Brexit debate:
the amount of money he cited as available for National Health was twice that
actually paid to the EU (the original requested amount), and that amount bought
privileges  for Britain. Which he undoubtedly realised. So he was saying that amount
could be controlled differently, like refusing automatic payments from one's account
for utilities. Fine and good.

But he was passionate about the issue of Brexit, and declared after the vote that
Britain could finally extricate itself from the EU corpus of laws. What laws might
those be.

Yes, there is administrative law, and God knows that can be painful to live with.
Anyone who has haggled with the tax department can attest to this. The government
is plaintiff, judge and jury.

I have also found references to the EU wanting to move to a unified system of
criminal law, on a model quite different from English common law. Could this
be the concern.

From the French press, the one positive seen from the Brexit vote is that the Union
itself might now move forward to greater unification, principally France and Germany.
I personally think this is an awesome idea, but there is a lot of history, there.

À suivre...

source: Wikipedia

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