Our MP Nigel Adams told us in June 2016 (HERE) that we were "fast becoming a European state, where Britain has to obey directives and regulations that British people have never voted for and never would". This is a serious charge, which the British people would be (and probably were) furious to hear and rightly so.
Mr Adams has been a member of parliament since June 2010 and had intervened at the time of writing 395 times in various debates. How many times did he raise this extremely serious matter that would cause outrage in any free people, in any democracy, anywhere in the world? The answer is - zero. He has never raised it at all! Not once. And he produced no evidence for it even in June.
Artistic remuneration for online content (July 2016), control of fireworks and flares (April 2016), UK musicians performing overseas (November 2015), grouse shooting (October 2016), even for some reason, phone and broadband coverage in Herefordshire (January 2015) and various other weighty matters have troubled Mr Adams but as for the threat of directives and regulations that we have never voted for being forced on us by a brutal EU, not a single solitary peep in seven years. Amazing.
Brexit is going to be the greatest political upheaval in my lifetime and the reverberations will echo around Europe for years and all to solve a problem that Mr Adams has never raised in the House of Commons in all the time he has been there. The truth is set out by Ken Clarke (HERE), “It is very hard to find an EU regulation of significance that has been forced on an unwilling British minister who voted against it”. We don’t decide anything at EU level unless all member countries have explicitly agreed by treaty to do so — and even then, each piece of legislation is agreed by national governments. For sensitive matters like tax and foreign affairs, the requirement for this agreement is complete unanimity, and in other areas, there is a very high ‘qualified majority’ threshold.
In other words there is no such problem.
In other words there is no such problem.
