Thread by @eyes_lilly

"Ninety years on from the Enablement Act that gave rise to the most monstrous political movement in history, Britain is about to replicate the frightful final flourishes from the Nazi playbook on establishing a fascist authoritarian regime..."
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"Namely, rapidly restructuring the established systems of power and enabling the bypassing of Parliament."

"Over the last few years, the Ministry for Propaganda has preoccupied us with bewitching bulletins of prohibited parties, corrupt contracts and malign misrepresentations of our government’s intentions and actions..."

"We have all witnessed the deliberate and determined deconstruction of our already adulterated democracy and the piecemeal removal of the meagre checks and balances on our government’s power that once gave any semblance of credit to the fraying façade of UK democracy..."

Under 3 Prime Ministers in as many years, the Conservatives have rushed reams of anti-democratic legislation through parliament:

•Elections Act
•Judicial Review Act
•Police, Crime and Sentencing Act
•amended P, C & S Act (thought crime)
•Minimum Service Bill (anti-strike)

"The consequences of these Bills are severe but two other pieces of legislation now working their way through Parliament pose an even greater threat to British citizens. The Retained EU Law (Revocation & Reform) Bill & the Levelling Up & Regeneration Bill" #REUL #REULBill

The #REULBill "is designed to deregulate the UK in an expedited deceitful and dangerous manner that will sow chaos and ensure the UK’s citizens and environment are ripe for extreme exploitation."

The 3 main components of the Bill are:

#REULBill states that all EU-derived UK laws will cease to exist overnight by default on 31 Dec 2023

To review, retain, revoke or re-write >4,600 pieces of legislation in under a year, fully considering the potential impact their removal may have, is blatantly an impossible task

The powers for Ministers to restate, revoke or re-write laws through secondary legislation are true to Tory tactics & anything but democratic. It bypasses parliamentary scrutiny allowing Ministers alone to decide whether specific laws should be kept & how they should be amended.

If they decide to re-write a law, the only stipulation in the #REULBill is that “it does not add to the regulatory burden”, giving a clear indication of the true intentions of this Bill.

It sets a dangerous precedent for the further erosion of the supremacy of our Parliament in future, particularly when considered alongside the increasing use of such Henry VIII clauses in post-Brexit legislation, ultimately serving to empower the Crown at Parliament’s expense.

Of particular concern will be the significant burden placed on @DefraGovUK, as it struggles to suppress reports on Pyridine exterminating an entire ecosystem around the Teesside Freeport and of sewage obliterating life in our waters.

#REUL #REULBill

@DefraGovUK laws cover animal welfare; drinking water; air quality; carcinogenic pesticides & insecticides threatening entire ecosystems; safe levels of harmful substances in foods & labelling requirements; and, managing the disposal of wastes far more hazardous than raw sewage.

Some of the protections that workers could lose overnight include their right to maternity leave, holiday pay, protection from discrimination on the grounds of nationality and a range of requirements for safe working conditions...

... the 48-hour maximum working week has been repeatedly referenced as something the Conservatives no longer feel a need for in their Great Brexitopia, giving another strong indication of the type of laws that will be left to expire or will be hastily and unfavourably re-written.

Other key laws from various departments that could be snuffed out overnight include:

Note commitments to reduced emissions targets, customs control regulations, registration of ownership of excise warehouses (and goods held there), financial transparency.

The second main component of the REUL Bill is to overhaul the UK court system and force a departure from EU case law in the decision-making of UK courts...

Case law, or legal precedents, are the laws set by following established decisions of judges in prior cases and such decisions from the CJEU have been a major component of our legal system for the last 50 years...

The REUL Bill sets out a new test for courts in Clause 7 (3), forcing them to consider the fact that decisions of a foreign court are not usually binding and the extent to which any EU case law restricts the proper development of domestic law.

Full article detailing the threats that this Bill poses to all of us in the UK.

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