Gosh, a United Kingdom Constitutional court; my Goodness, a Sovereignty Act; heavens! what is available to Germany, to Ireland to the Czech Republic (and to every other of the member states of Europe) will be installed in the United Kingdom.
Who could have thought it?
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More things I didn't ask for.
Is that a 'maybe it'll be all right. Better than the nothing that New Labour wants in its efforts to set up authoritarian capitalism' S?
We don't even have the civil service competence to run the UK any more; much of the standard administration is done within the EU for all 27 member states - nothing contentious, just every day bureaucracy. It'd take a Parliamentary term to get set up to leave.
You know the answer to your question. Not this, not that, none of it. 1997 - 2010: The Interregnum.
They will?
Is that another cast-iron promise from call-me-Dave?
Stable, meet door, with lock.
Apparently there's a European Community Act which requires British courts to give precedence to EU rules in any conflict with British laws, so any flummery about new courts is unlikely to be more than a PR scam.
Unless we amend the Act, Raven, which is wholly within UK parliamentary powers. No-one wanted anyone to even begin discussing the latent, often ill-defined, and thus even more far reaching powers of the British Constitution. Unleash, or threaten to unleash (as the Conservatives have done) that ancient complex on anything as jejeune as the European Union's pathetic 'rights' and 'requirements' hotchpotch of cobbled together treaties and they'll be in up to their necks. Just look at the smacking they are getting from the Italians over crucifixes in classrooms - and the Italians aren't even using their Constitutional Court (est. circa 1946), just a regional Tribunal and a Court of Appeal.
What we lacked was the will to use our own powers, even a political, New Labour determination to cripple and hide them.
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