Very nearly beyond parody:
According to research by the TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA), there are currently 16,980 EU acts in force and between 1998 and 2007 there was a net gain of 9,415 EU laws. In 2007, 3,010 EU laws became UK law, while only 993 EU regulations were repealed – a net gain of 2,017 extra laws.
The pace at which new EU laws were promulgated also increased at a record speed, with a net gain of over 2,000 new laws in both 2006 and 2007, compared to an annual average net gain of only 942 new laws between 1998 and 2007. Almost half of the extra 9,415 EU laws created in the 10 years to the end of 2007 were introduced in 2006 and 2007. Ben Farrugia, a policy analyst at the TPA, says: “Despite EU rhetoric about reducing regulation, it is growing at a record rate.”
via EU: is Britain still a sovereign state? – Telegraph.
Am I a criminal? I haven’t a clue.
Moreover:
In many ways the numbers are irrelevant since one very bad law imposed by Brussels would outweigh a dozen footling changes emanating from Westminster. What is really at issue here is the question of sovereignty: when a law follows the EU route it is rarely scrutinised properly and cannot be changed. The connection between those who vote and those who pass our laws, the very foundation of democracy, is broken.
