Cheers

If you want to understand how EU law has impacted UK it’s very easy to do the research on-line.You just have to be interested enough.

You seem quite content with the status quo which is fine.-I am not.

We are on different sides of a divide it seems.
It’s been fun though
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Colin

If the EU robs us of our “democratic” rights, then so does our own “undemocratic” system. Who elected the Crown? If we had to start again from scratch we’d probably be able to devise a more “democratic” system than we have – in the EU as well (I don’t disagree as much as you might think!) , since the driving force behind its original establishment was the proximity of the last World War.

It would be great to couch debate in terms of facts and figures (what laws exactly, and how do they affect life here?) , but there’s been precious little of those here, and I’m sure that’s the main reason people don’t care about Europe. “600 laws have been passed since May” doesn’t mean anything near as much as, say, “ONE law has been passed which is going to cost you your job”.

I just want to respond to one of your points-or else this will go on too far-it probably has already!

“UK, laws are not subsidiary to thse of the EU,”

It has been ruled several times by the European Court of Justice that EU law is superior to national laws, and even Member States’ constitutions. Where a conflict arises between EU law and the law of a Member State, EU law takes precedence, so that the law of a Member State must be disapplied. This doctrine, known as the supremacy of EU law, emerged from the European Court of Justice in Costa v. ENEL

The Commission has sole power to initiate this legislation -and it pours out in bucket loads.
Since end May this year over 600 new laws have appeared .