There’s been bucketloads of uncertainty over Brexit and the European Union, and the UK‘s government hasn’t been totally forthcoming on exactly how it’s all going to happen or indeed if it will happen at all.
Prime Minister Theresa May is formally kicking a tin along on the proceedings, and will today announce the specifics: she will repeal the 1972 European Communities Act and formally invoke the EU exit procedure prior to the German federal elections in 2017.
On Saturday night, she outlined her plan.
We will introduce, in the next Queen’s Speech, a Great Repeal Bill that will remove the European Communities Act from the statute book. That was the act that took us into the European Union. This marks the first stage in the UK becoming a sovereign and independent country once again. It will return power and authority to the elected institutions of our county. It means that the authority of EU law in Britain will end.
All European laws – where practical – will automatically be transposed into British law, meaning there won’t be an immediate legislative shock for businesses. Then the UK government will wind back the laws they do no not believe to be necessary.
David Davis, the Secretary of State for Brexit, confirmed that strategy. “EU law will be transposed into domestic law, wherever practical, on exit day.”
“It will be for elected politicians here to make the changes to reflect the outcome of our negotiation and our exit.”
That could potentially piss off the people who wanted out of EU bureaucracy from day dot, but honestly there’s probably no other way they could have done it without it being a massive inconvenience for basically everyone.
There we go. Looks like there is a plan, as sketchy as the details are right now.
Source: Sky News.
Photo: Getty Images / Matt Cardy.
