Quite what the state of Policing in the UK has to do with the post-Brexit EU, I am at a loss to say...
I note that
@wetsmonkey has been making lots of OCD-esque posts and that
@PhotEx has been overstraining the Google search function. Can you two get a room?
Meanwhile, back in the EU:
It’s not only in Northern Ireland that the EU has taken to acting like some imperial power. Last week, with international correspondents’ eyes conveniently fixed on the G7, it quietly began a legal push to take over large areas of its remaining member states’ domestic affairs. On Tuesday, the...
www.spectator.co.uk
It appears that the EU Commission is suing seven member states, and whilst most of the "charges" are relatively inconsequential (not enough holocaust denial laws, prohibiton on joing political parties and so on) the Germans are front and centre with a dilly:
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It all started with EU proposals to borrow €750 billion (£645 billion) to finance Covid recovery, a move that would potentially cost German taxpayers serious money, and which for drearily technical reasons is also of questionable EU legality. An organisation called Bündnis Bürgerwille (Citizens’ Will Alliance) has taken up this point. It says that German taxpayers’ money can be spent only in so far as the German constitution permits it and that using it to bankroll Euro-projects is only permissible if they are actually lawful under EU law.
Ten weeks ago the German constitutional court agreed with the Alliance. It peremptorily ordered the German government not to sign up to the EU scheme. It then rubbed salt in the wound, stating that it had the final decision on such matters. Even if the European Court itself approved a scheme, this would make no difference, since within Germany the EU had only such power as was specifically given it by the German constitution, on which the German judges were the final and only arbiters.
The German position has the benefit of logic, and also of impeccable democratic virtue. The EU has nevertheless now resolved to attack it head-on. Its stance is that it has a legal power to sideline any constitutional rule in an EU member state, however fundamental or democratically embedded it may be. The political stakes are therefore sky-high.
If the EU court sides with the EU — and the smart money is on its doing exactly that — then there is every chance that the German constitutional court will simply not accept its ruling. In this clash of the irresistible force and the immovable object, the resulting inconceivable disturbance may well incidentally sweep aside much of the foundations of the EU."
How funny would it be if Germany destroyed the EU instead of the UK?