MSE News: May and Corbyn promise consumers won't lose out from Brexit ...

The proposed Great Reform Bill does not ensure this. All EU legislation will be grandfathered over to UK law and any parts that any future government wish to drop will be easily done under statutory instruments which means minimal parliamentary intervention.

There has even been talk of a twilight clause which would mean that any part of this legislation not actively adopted would be dropped by default.

Bearing in mind that this legislation includes the 'red tape' so despised by the leave community is is interesting to be aware that the majority of this legislation are laws that protect our rights as workers and consumers, protection for the environment and animal welfare.

Another chilling fact about the GRB is the possibility that virtually all public health law that currently comes from the EU (air quality, waste, food safety, tobacco reg, pharma reg, etc etc) could potentially be amended by the government only, with no parliamentary or other stakeholder oversight.

Whilst parliament is dealing with that, there are 759 treaties and international agreements that Britain will lose after Brexit that might be retained with negotiation https://ig.ft.com/brexit-treaty-database/

Mrs May has a track record of inconsistency and flip flopping to suit her whim. She promised not to call a General Election and did so. Her reversal of stance on Social Care funding makes one dizzy. The NI rise for self employed was quickly dropped. In her leadership campaign she promised a fairer Britain for workers and proposed having workers on companies' boards. That too was quickly dropped.

Before the referendum, Mrs May spoke out on many occasions on the benefits of membership of the EU for our national security. She also spoke about the financial implications on business and of the importance of keeping EU membership for the financial services. She has gone back on all that.

She is not to be trusted.

redux wrote: »

Something I would be interested in buying in a year or two went up in price, because of the exchange rate slide since the referendum result.

This type of product was last made in this country in 1978. The firm stopped because it had almost none of the export sales it needed.

If we end up outside the single market and outside the customs union, even the act of importing this will become more complicated, whether or not our government decides to also add a duty tariff to it.

It will not be our government's decision whether or not to impose tariffs. We will have to fall in line with what our trading partners want if we are trading under WTO rules. The UK is not a significant trading entity in its own right. There will be 163 other nations to negotiate with. We are a small nation, that became the fifth wealthiest as part of the EU. Since the referendum we have become 7th and our currency has devalued by around 18%,. The prospect for consumers is not good.

This article explains the implications of the Great Reform Bill very well. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/01/great-repeal-bill-henry-viii-britain-eu-government

I would've thought the consumer rights board would be the most appropriate place given the topic.

The purpose of the reform bill is not to enshrine EU law into national law - because its already been transposed in national law and would only need "protecting" if someone was planning to repeal those specific acts.

Its purpose is so ministers (not even the government, but its ministers) can amend legislation without requiring any consultation or vote on it. Basically to enable them to do it quickly/easily rather than do it properly in accordance with the rules that are designed to stop this very thing from happening.

unholyangel wrote: »

I would've thought the consumer rights board would be the most appropriate place given the topic.

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