THERESA MAY introduced in to Parliament something called the Great Repeal Bill.
Am I right in thinking it was passed just before the election was announced? Why was the Bill called this? My understanding is that it did not repeal anything.
On the contrary, the Bill made into law in this country all those aspects of European Law the Brexiteers have been complaining about, didn’t it?
But doesn’t the Great Repeal Bill simply raise the same gigantic question it has tried to settle?
Parliament has always been supreme hasn’t it? That is what the Brexiteers think.
If these laws were not UK laws already then they should have been shouldn’t they? Or has everything done in the name of European Law since 1971 been in fact beyond the powers of the authorities that enforced those regulations when they enforced them?
Can I ask when the Act was hurried through did all the brilliant legal minds in Whitehall remember to make The Great Repeal Bill retrospective?
I hope so.
Nigel F Boddy, Darlington
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