Re: EU Green Deal
Originally Posted by
Meg
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Sorry Bread I couldn't give a flying fig about the EUs 'green deal '
In just 15 days we should be free of them for good
That's a major misunderstanding of the situation. Because the plan for transition which starts 1 february is that during the period the UK will continue to follow all EU rules, pay into the budget and abide by rulings of the EU’s Court of Justice, some have seen fit to describe this as membership in all but name.
This is incorrect in one major way: the UK will not have voting or representation rights during transition, barring some very limited areas where it necessarily must have an input. The EU has always closely guarded membership as something that comes with privileges and so it is here: during transition, the UK will not be like a member on this most basic test.
Clearly, this is highly problematic as a democratic proposition. The UK will have all of the obligations and none of the voting rights.
So, should europarliament agree on a new law on climate change, the UK has to implement it, by law.