Can You Explain And Evaluate The Effect On The UK’s Sovereignty And Legal System Of Its Membership Of The European Union?

The U.K. Will only lose as much sovereignty as it chooses to give, in the sense that there is very little machinery at present to enforce laws that the U.K. Does not choose to enforce. They do have a tendency to enforce to the letter regardless, unlike than other member countries, who tend to ignore what they don't like. For example, in the U.K. Market traders were prosecuted for selling produce in lbs, while traders in France, which has been decimalised for years, still openly sell their produce in livres, no problem.

Economically, the UK is a net contributor to the EU, which increases the cost of taxes to ordinary people. Also they have effectively lost their fishing industry to foreigners who have plundered the seas to such an extent that cod is becoming hard to find. They have also largely lost their coal industry as the coal is deemed to have too high a sulphur content. Churchill once said that England was built on coal and surrounded by fish, and it was difficult to see how any idiot could manage to change that. Well, sir, they did just that!

The EU is basically undemocratic in its operation, hence unaccountable and intrinsically corrupt, - their accounts have not been signed off by the auditors for years. Problems will arise, therefore, for all member states should it ever acquire a standing army or central police force which takes precedence over those of member states.

Since being in the EU there has been a rationalisation of the UK, to some extent politically driven, but this does not seem to have taken the heat out of Scottish nationalism as might have been expected. It has aroused English nationalism amongst people who are asking why Scottish MPs are able to legislate on matters affecting only England where English MPs are not allowed to do so for Scotland.

Serous problems are likely to arise if Turkey enters the EU, as all any Al Quaeda operatives, or any other terrorists, have to do is pretend to be Turkish and enter the EU through Turkey. In theory, planeloads and boatloads of such people could turn up at British airports and ports and have inalienable right of entry, no questions asked.

The fact of the matter is that the ordinary people in all the main member states are beginning to distrust the EU and many of them want out. The Euro as a currency is inherently unstable, as it prevents those states which are in it from setting their own interest rates according to their own needs. Hence the interest rates chosen tend to reflect the needs of France and Germany, rather than the others, causing economic problems for other members.

One serious economic depression would probably finish the euro as a currency. The likelihood is that the EU will split apart rather than stay together. Let us pray that if this is going to happen, it happens before things are so far advanced that war would be used to retain any country which wished to secede from the Union. Look at what happened in the Balkans!

The original raison d'etre of the EU was free trade. Now GATT has made this irrelevant so the politicians are looking for another justification. Melding the countries together into a superstate, supposedly to prevent war in Europe and also to match the clout of the USA, Russia and China, now seems to be the agenda. However, as Gorbachev complained to the European leaders, he was dismantling the Soviet totalitarian superstate, only for them to try to create the equivalent in Europe.

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