Re: Misled Over Brexit ? Certainly Looks That way !
Originally Posted by
JBR
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I thought we were no longer subject to the ECJ.
If this proves to be the case, it just goes to confirm my repeated assertion that Boris achieved us nothing more than BRINO.
Well spotted.
We are indeed now outside the EU and beyond ECJ jurisdiction.
Here is why it is not BRINO : these problems relate to the period when we
were an EU member.
You might not like that but it is nonetheless true.
It is no different to the fact that you too could in theory be prosecuted for historical acts, even though circumstances have changed - many years ago, possibly.
Just as you could in theory see legal action come from a former employer, so too can a former member of the EU see legal actions against them for historic acts.
That is a two-way street BTW.
The UK has a few options, not least of which is that any financial burden imposed could in fact be ignored - although that might have repecussions.
Just "might".
It would also have to be seen though that whatever fine is imposed should be both fair and proportional.
There's no way could the ECJ insist upon a huge fine for the UK when the other parties are given smaller fines or possibly not fined at all without seeing legitimate objection from the UK.
Before there's any tearing out of hair by the usual suspects, let's see the outcome and not just a media-inspired moan; let's see what is proposed for Germany, France, Italy, Romania and Hungary too before we see the beating of chests and howls of derision.