Friday 24 December 2010

A Moderating Effect

The moderating effect of the restoration of the supremacy of British over EU law, and of the use of that provision to repatriate agricultural policy and to restore our historic fishing rights in accordance with international law.

The moderating effect of the requirement that, in order to have any effect in the United Kingdom, all EU law pass through both Houses of Parliament as if it had originated in one or other of them.

The moderating effect of the requirement that British Ministers adopt the show-stopping Empty Chair Policy until such time as the Council of Ministers meets in public and publishes an Official Report akin to Hansard.

The moderating effect of the disapplication in the United Kingdom of any ruling of the European Court of Justice or of the European Court of Human Rights (or of the "Supreme Court") unless confirmed by a resolution of the House of Commons.

And the moderating effect of the disapplication in the United Kingdom of anything passed by the European Parliament but not by the majority of those MEPs certified as politically acceptable by one or more seat-taking members of the House of Commons, so that in that chamber (although there would still be the problem of those who turn up in the Council of Ministers) we were no longer subject to the legislative will of Stalinists and Trotskyists, of neo-Fascists and neo-Nazis, of members of Eastern Europe's kleptomaniac nomenklatura, of neoconservatives such as now run France and Germany, of people who believe the Provisional Army Council to be the sovereign body throughout Ireland, or, before long, of the ruling Islamists of Turkey and of their opponents, variously extreme secular ultra-nationalists and Marxist Kurdish separatist terrorists.

Jeremy Browne, over to you.

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