Obrogation opportunities II...

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Obrogation: to alter the law by passing a new law. From previous post: "The UK's European Union (Withdrawal) Bill now only requires Royal Assent, which will be on 26 June 2018..." :our Independence Day is assured.




Brexit Central:

"the Government’s flagship piece of Brexit legislation did indeed receive its Royal Assent yesterday when the Queen formally signed it into law. Lest we forget, Section 1 of the now European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 states 'The European Communities Act 1972 is repealed on exit day” - with exit day explicitly defined in the Act “as 29 March 2019 at 11.00pm'"

My emphasis. Here it is (PDF)

Obrogation opportunities II...

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Obrogation: to alter the law by passing a new law. From previous post: "The UK's European Union (Withdrawal) Bill now only requires Royal Assent, which will be on 26 June 2018..." :our Independence Day is assured.

Brexit Central:

"the Government’s flagship piece of Brexit legislation did indeed receive its Royal Assent yesterday when the Queen formally signed it into law. Lest we forget, Section 1 of the now European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 states 'The European Communities Act 1972 is repealed on exit day” - with exit day explicitly defined in the Act “as 29 March 2019 at 11.00pm'"

My emphasis. Here it is (PDF)

Obrogation opportunities...

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Happy UK Independence Day! 23rd June 2016 was the day - to great shock from everyone - we voted Brexit. Two years on we are still wrangling about various details but the date is set. Worth a read of The Mogg's words "Brexit and Beyond: Britain’s Place in the World in the 2020s" [Brexit Central]. He is one of the very few - even among government Brexiteers - that refuses to be negative. John Redwood is another, here on The Commentator praising the US Ambassador who say we should be more positive: “To see this defeatist attitude towards Brexit is a bit sorrowing to me,”...isn't it embarrassing that we have to be told?

Rees-Mogg ends with "I have always thought that by and large, individuals making decisions for themselves, make better decisions than others can do for them. This applies on the national scale too. The nation state can make better decisions for itself than other nations can impose upon it. I believe it for the United Kingdom and I believe it for other nations around the world. That is the opportunity for the UK in 2020 and beyond. It is to have confidence in ourselves to make the alliances that will lead to success and to ensure that we have the right economic policies in place."

And if mistakes are made, they are OUR mistakes.




The UK's European Union (Withdrawal) Bill now only requires Royal Assent, which will be on 26 June 2018...

Obrogation opportunities...

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Happy UK Independence Day! 23rd June 2016 was the day - to great shock from everyone - we voted Brexit. Two years on we are still wrangling about various details but the date is set. Worth a read of The Mogg's words "Brexit and Beyond: Britain’s Place in the World in the 2020s" [Brexit Central]. He is one of the very few - even among government Brexiteers - that refuses to be negative. John Redwood is another, here on The Commentator praising the US Ambassador who say we should be more positive: “To see this defeatist attitude towards Brexit is a bit sorrowing to me,”...isn't it embarrassing that we have to be told?

Rees-Mogg ends with "I have always thought that by and large, individuals making decisions for themselves, make better decisions than others can do for them. This applies on the national scale too. The nation state can make better decisions for itself than other nations can impose upon it. I believe it for the United Kingdom and I believe it for other nations around the world. That is the opportunity for the UK in 2020 and beyond. It is to have confidence in ourselves to make the alliances that will lead to success and to ensure that we have the right economic policies in place."

And if mistakes are made, they are OUR mistakes.

The UK's European Union (Withdrawal) Bill now only requires Royal Assent, which will be on 26 June 2018...

Opt-out obnubilation...

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...obscurantism, obfuscation: UK PM David Cameron keeps on about a deal, a special deal, a "'special status' for Britain within a reformed EU. He has done no such thing. His deal pretends to be legally biding but it is not."...EU Referendum, a constant and clear voice for Brexit [Flexcit: PDF] ..."This is why, on 23 June, we have to vote to leave the EU. To buy into Mr Cameron's pretence is to give him and successive politicians a license to lie. If as a people, we accept this garbage, we will take anything – and deserve what we get."



I also concur with Raedwald: "My feeling following the humiliating charade in Brussels is anger. Anger that already we're so deeply committed to the corrupt, sclerotic, arrogant Behemoth of the EU that silly little people from silly little countries can presume to dictate to the United Kingdom where and when we should pay welfare, how we regulate our financial sector and who we let in. How dare they assume such power over our sovereign kingdom!"


[edit] We can GO and I'm gladly aGOg at GOve's statement, reprinted at the Spectator "Why I’m backing Brexit" or -easier to read and without the comments - at Politics Home if you prefer.



UK Unleashed: "You're going to hear the phrase 'Little Englander' bandied about  a lot in this referendum as a device to cow you in to believing that what you're asking for is a return to yesterday and a rejection of cosmopolitan Europe."  'UK independence' will be from the corrupt and chaotic EU.



Dan the Man on Twitter: "What a lovely time of year to hold our Independence Day parties in the decades to come": Vote Leave, Take Control.



June 23rd 2016: UK Independence Day (to be confirmed?).

Opt-out obnubilation...

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...obscurantism, obfuscation: UK PM David Cameron keeps on about a deal, a special deal, a "'special status' for Britain within a reformed EU. He has done no such thing. His deal pretends to be legally biding but it is not."...EU Referendum, a constant and clear voice for Brexit [Flexcit: PDF] ..."This is why, on 23 June, we have to vote to leave the EU. To buy into Mr Cameron's pretence is to give him and successive politicians a license to lie. If as a people, we accept this garbage, we will take anything – and deserve what we get."

I also concur with Raedwald: "My feeling following the humiliating charade in Brussels is anger. Anger that already we're so deeply committed to the corrupt, sclerotic, arrogant Behemoth of the EU that silly little people from silly little countries can presume to dictate to the United Kingdom where and when we should pay welfare, how we regulate our financial sector and who we let in. How dare they assume such power over our sovereign kingdom!"

[edit] We can GO and I'm gladly aGOg at GOve's statement, reprinted at the Spectator "Why I’m backing Brexit" or -easier to read and without the comments - at Politics Home if you prefer.

UK Unleashed: "You're going to hear the phrase 'Little Englander' bandied about  a lot in this referendum as a device to cow you in to believing that what you're asking for is a return to yesterday and a rejection of cosmopolitan Europe."  'UK independence' will be from the corrupt and chaotic EU.

Dan the Man on Twitter: "What a lovely time of year to hold our Independence Day parties in the decades to come": Vote Leave, Take Control.

June 23rd 2016: UK Independence Day (to be confirmed?).

OK, OK, OK...

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UKOK. Interesting rebranding from over a decade ago, (click through the short-listed entries from 2001 HERE) and regurgitated in 2007 as 'The Failure of Cool Britannia' from Summa. Today's referendum may not be the last day of the U.K. but it could be the beginning of the end...

UKOK campaign 2002

UKOK credit Keith Williams

UKOK!

Douglas Murray puts it well in The Spectator: "Vote for Britain to be a force for good in the world. Vote to keep the Union". The UK is easily the most successful union of countries in the history of the world and I dispute any silly comparisons trying to belie this by using totally irrelevant comparisons (with the USA in this case) about size, or GDP or Olympic gold medals for fuck's sake. Maybe I'm referring more to the British Empire but IMHO the two cannot and should not be separated. Going back to Murray's article, I agree entirely with a comment by sfin part of which is quoted below:

"Devolution is an EU design. The Blair creature was carrying out article 198 of the Maastricht Treaty (signed by the 'conservative' John Major) which resurrected the committee of regions and urged a blueprint of regions in Europe based on the German Lander system - each region having an elected assembly). Scotland, Wales and Ulster (not Northern Ireland) are EU regions. England does not exist..." [sic]

And finally from the 'New' Archbishop Cranmer: "Doe wee not remember, that this Kingdome [England] was divided into seven little Kingdomes, besides Wales? And is it not now the stronger by their Union? And hath not the Union of Wales to England added a greater Strength therto?…I desire a perfect Union of Lawes and Persons, and such a Naturalizing as may make one Body of both Kingdomes under mee your King. That I and my Posteritie (if it so please God) may rule over you to the Worlds End; Such an Union as was of the Scots and Pictes in Scotland, and of the Heptarchie heere in England."  ' So spake King James I of England and VI of Scotland to the Houses of Parliament in 1603'. True as ever.

"Why is Alex Salmond intent on leading the Scots out of a union which they are manifestly better off in, for one which it is increasingly obvious we would all be Better Off Out?" [my emphasis]

OK, OK, OK...

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UKOK. Interesting rebranding from over a decade ago, (click through the short-listed entries from 2001 HERE) and regurgitated in 2007 as 'The Failure of Cool Britannia' from Summa. Today's referendum may not be the last day of the U.K. but it could be the beginning of the end...

UKOK campaign 2002

UKOK credit Keith Williams

UKOK!

Douglas Murray puts it well in The Spectator: "Vote for Britain to be a force for good in the world. Vote to keep the Union". The UK is easily the most successful union of countries in the history of the world and I dispute any silly comparisons trying to belie this by using totally irrelevant comparisons (with the USA in this case) about size, or GDP or Olympic gold medals for fuck's sake. Maybe I'm referring more to the British Empire but IMHO the two cannot and should not be separated. Going back to Murray's article, I agree entirely with a comment by sfin part of which is quoted below:

"Devolution is an EU design. The Blair creature was carrying out article 198 of the Maastricht Treaty (signed by the 'conservative' John Major) which resurrected the committee of regions and urged a blueprint of regions in Europe based on the German Lander system - each region having an elected assembly). Scotland, Wales and Ulster (not Northern Ireland) are EU regions. England does not exist..." [sic]

And finally from the 'New' Archbishop Cranmer: "Doe wee not remember, that this Kingdome [England] was divided into seven little Kingdomes, besides Wales? And is it not now the stronger by their Union? And hath not the Union of Wales to England added a greater Strength therto?…I desire a perfect Union of Lawes and Persons, and such a Naturalizing as may make one Body of both Kingdomes under mee your King. That I and my Posteritie (if it so please God) may rule over you to the Worlds End; Such an Union as was of the Scots and Pictes in Scotland, and of the Heptarchie heere in England."  ' So spake King James I of England and VI of Scotland to the Houses of Parliament in 1603'. True as ever.

"Why is Alex Salmond intent on leading the Scots out of a union which they are manifestly better off in, for one which it is increasingly obvious we would all be Better Off Out?" [my emphasis]

Oriol's opening...

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The election results from Catalonia - called 2 years early - make interesting reading; they do signal that probably nothing will get done, as with all rainbow coalitions (not yet formed but necessary). There were slight changes in the political make-up of the autonomous Catalan Parliament (see image left; click to enlarge. To see the votes and seats click HERE) but by far the biggest winner was Oriol Junqueras of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (Republican Left of Catalonia) who [Ows edit: text from here on was edited at 1pm to make it clearer] is leader of what became the second biggest party, they are staunchly pro Catalonian Independence but against the austerity measures that have been introduced by the ruling Convergència i Unió party (Convergence and Union) who were also the biggest loser (despite still winning!); Artur Mas, the leader of CiU had called the early election: "El 'plan Mas' fracasa" says El Periodico (images also from there); the DT headline says it best: "Spain's Catalan separatists win election but punish Mas". Another point to note not really reported as far as I have seen: those clearly nationalist parties (CiU, ERC and CUP) lost seats compared to the combined total of the 2010 elections when they had 76; back then there was no CUP but included SI (Solidaritat Catalana per la Independència). Another big loser was the PSC (Socialists' Party of Catalonia) although they are against Independence so we can safely presume they lost a big chunk to ERC and to Joan Herrera's ICV-EUiA (Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds - Esquerra Unida i Alternativa, a greeny lefty mini coalition mouthful: Initiative for Catalonia Greens - United and Alternative Left!) also anti-austerity and who also did well. However, the PPC (right-wing popular Party) and the Ciutadans – Partit de la Ciutadania (Party of the Citizenry), both against independence, grew their number of seats and their percentage of votes. Make of all that what you will!

Oriol's opening...

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The election results from Catalonia - called 2 years early - make interesting reading; they do signal that probably nothing will get done, as with all rainbow coalitions (not yet formed but necessary). There were slight changes in the political make-up of the autonomous Catalan Parliament (see image left; click to enlarge. To see the votes and seats click HERE) but by far the biggest winner was Oriol Junqueras of Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (Republican Left of Catalonia) who [Ows edit: text from here on was edited at 1pm to make it clearer] is leader of what became the second biggest party, they are staunchly pro Catalonian Independence but against the austerity measures that have been introduced by the ruling Convergència i Unió party (Convergence and Union) who were also the biggest loser (despite still winning!); Artur Mas, the leader of CiU had called the early election: "El 'plan Mas' fracasa" says El Periodico (images also from there); the DT headline says it best: "Spain's Catalan separatists win election but punish Mas". Another point to note not really reported as far as I have seen: those clearly nationalist parties (CiU, ERC and CUP) lost seats compared to the combined total of the 2010 elections when they had 76; back then there was no CUP but included SI (Solidaritat Catalana per la Independència). Another big loser was the PSC (Socialists' Party of Catalonia) although they are against Independence so we can safely presume they lost a big chunk to ERC and to Joan Herrera's ICV-EUiA (Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds - Esquerra Unida i Alternativa, a greeny lefty mini coalition mouthful: Initiative for Catalonia Greens - United and Alternative Left!) also anti-austerity and who also did well. However, the PPC (right-wing popular Party) and the Ciutadans – Partit de la Ciutadania (Party of the Citizenry), both against independence, grew their number of seats and their percentage of votes. Make of all that what you will!