Graham Wood, York. Yorks Post.
I WONDER how many of your readers, like me, find the activism of the remoaning community not just irritating but also comical. The more they refight the referendum, the more they demonstrate that the decision to leave was absolutely correct. Their recent attempt to derail Brexit in the Court of Appeal has exposed another flaw in our relationship with the EU. By denying the Government the use of Crown Prerogative powers to trigger Article 50, effectively the court – seemingly without realising – signalled that the original signing of the Economic Communities Act 1972 was illegal. Activist judges cannot have it both ways. If only Parliament can remove people’s rights, then the Accession Treaty (also passed by Crown Prerogative powers) must be illegal and the whole UK-EU relationship is null and void. There should be no need formally to leave what we have never legally joined. So triggering Article 50 is merely a courtesy measure. When the UK signed the Accession Treaty in 1972 there had been no legislative approval by Parliament. No MP or anyone knew what the Government was negotiating, there was no referendum in which the Government asserted that “ you, the people, will decide”. The exact opposite is the case today. Let’s get on with it.
Read more at: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/yp-letters-attempts-to-derail-brexit-strengthen-case-1-8387937
I WONDER how many of your readers, like me, find the activism of the remoaning community not just irritating but also comical. The more they refight the referendum, the more they demonstrate that the decision to leave was absolutely correct. Their recent attempt to derail Brexit in the Court of Appeal has exposed another flaw in our relationship with the EU. By denying the Government the use of Crown Prerogative powers to trigger Article 50, effectively the court – seemingly without realising – signalled that the original signing of the Economic Communities Act 1972 was illegal. Activist judges cannot have it both ways. If only Parliament can remove people’s rights, then the Accession Treaty (also passed by Crown Prerogative powers) must be illegal and the whole UK-EU relationship is null and void. There should be no need formally to leave what we have never legally joined. So triggering Article 50 is merely a courtesy measure. When the UK signed the Accession Treaty in 1972 there had been no legislative approval by Parliament. No MP or anyone knew what the Government was negotiating, there was no referendum in which the Government asserted that “ you, the people, will decide”. The exact opposite is the case today. Let’s get on with it.
Read more at: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/yp-letters-attempts-to-derail-brexit-strengthen-case-1-8387937
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