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It's the opposite, the UK as a member of the EU always had control of its laws, money and borders - that it did not was a fiction.
I disagree with this part of Dammit's argument. The UK didn't have effective control of EU Directives being implemented in UK law. These automatically became law. Judges had to interpret in their favour. Denning's dissenting opinion quoted above asserted Parliament's authority but this (to my knowledge) was never exercised. My key point is that to understand the impact of EU law it's necessary to look at the arguments about its implementation. In my view this was never entirely settled. To summarise, I disagree with always above.
I also disagree with the argument that because the UK was a member of the EU then EU law was almost UK law. EU directives are drafted by the Commission and approved by the Parliament and Council. The UK had 73 MEPs in a parliament of 751.
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It's the opposite, the UK as a member of the EU always had control of its laws, money and borders - that it did not was a fiction.
I disagree with this part of Dammit's argument. The UK didn't have effective control of EU Directives being implemented in UK law. These automatically became law. Judges had to interpret in their favour. Denning's dissenting opinion quoted above asserted Parliament's authority but this (to my knowledge) was never exercised. My key point is that to understand the impact of EU law it's necessary to look at the arguments about its implementation. In my view this was never entirely settled. To summarise, I disagree with always above.
I also disagree with the argument that because the UK was a member of the EU then EU law was almost UK law. EU directives are drafted by the Commission and approved by the Parliament and Council. The UK had 73 MEPs in a parliament of 751.
You are of course free to disagree, but you're clearly and demonstrably wrong.
Dammit
But do you understand the central tenant of dammit's argument?
That by both being able to agree to be bound by EU law, and by being able to rescind that agreement you prove that the British Parliament is supreme?
The secondary element is that when the UK was part of the decision making process as a member of the EU it was still making law to bind itself.
Now for all practical purposes while we can choose not to be bound by EU law, we still are.