“Great Repeal Bill” – The sovereignty of the executive

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“GREAT REPEAL BILL” – THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE EXECUTIVE? In principle the Bill as described in the recent White Paper makes sense as a way of implementing Brexit: repeal the European Communities Act; turn the EU acquis into UK law except where Brexit makes it necessary to do something else. Make any policy-driven changes in […]

Brexit will be defeated by Brexit (but YOU need to help)

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29 March 2017 will go down in history as the day the UK notified its intention to leave the European Union (EU). History may also record that a few decades later England, after years of economic stagnation and political isolation, re-joined an independent Scotland, Wales and a united Ireland in the Eurozone. Although Brexiters want […]

How clear will the ‘terms’ be?

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  Some hold that the agreement that will be reached by November 2018 will not be capable of a decision in a referendum because the terms of Brexit will be too vague for the electorate to sensibly reach a decision This line of argument holds that the agreement will cover only the divorce bill, the […]

The EU – the transformative effect

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In just three paragraphs of the recent House of Lords report on Brexit ( paragraphs 170, 171 and 172 ), in which successive  Irish Prime Ministers  gave witness to the transformation of their relations  with their UK counterparts  as a result of their common EU membership, their Lordships concluded that this joint membership had indeed  […]