Six years after the referendum, the ‘brexit’ negotiator believes that it was based on the desire for national democracy
The Secretary of State for Brexit Opportunities, Jacob Rees Mogg, has presented a table of community regulations still inserted in British legislation, coinciding with the sixth anniversary of the vote of a majority of Britons to leave the European Union. They are “more than 2,400” standards. The table will be renewed quarterly so that its gradual reduction can be verified.
They are regulations on the safety of aerosol generators or the rights of people with disabilities when traveling by plane. The largest number, 570, affects the Ministry of the Environment, Food and Rural Life, especially because of the fishing policy. Rees-Mogg has thanked readers of ‘The Sun’ and ‘Sunday Express’ for many letters from him pointing out bothersome rules. “I hope that the painting will give us the opportunity to face hundreds of issues. They may seem marginal,” the minister explained to Parliament, “but combined they are the start of a revolution. Not in the French style of revolutions, with blood flowing in the streets and the terror of the guillotine, but in the British style, with marginal improvements, inch by inch,…until the journey is complete.”
David Frost, main negotiator of the ‘brexit’, has celebrated the Rees-Mogg initiative in the course of a seminar on the progress of the EU, organized by the network of academics ‘United Kingdom in a Changing Europe’. The substitution of European rules for others more adjusted to the needs of the British economy and society is taking a long time, according to him.
Frost believes that the decision six years ago was based on a desire to restore “national democracy.” “It is the beginning of a process of national renewal,” according to the former minister. But after years of EU membership, the potential for a still incomplete Brexit is delayed because, according to Frost, “our elite have lost the ability to set their own goals.” “It seems that we have forgotten how to govern,” he says.
minor problem
Simon McDonald, who was the highest ranking official in British diplomacy before his retirement at the initiative of Boris Johnson, pointed out in the debate on the role of the United Kingdom in international politics that the Government in London has had a dynamic policy and with good felt about Ukraine, supplying weapons and training soldiers since before the invasion.
But, in his opinion, the EU has sought a leadership role on the continent and the British Executive suffers from insufficient “connectivity” with the community elite to enhance its role. What would? For Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan, the ambition is to emulate the balance-of-power diplomacy pursued by Minister Castlereagh at the start of the 19th century.
“The illusion persists,” MacMillan said, “but I don’t think you can animate unity while litigating.” The consensus of the speakers on geopolitics after ‘Brexit’ is that the problems of the Irish Protocol can be resolved, “but both parties believe that the other has to give in”, according to McDonald… Fabien Zuleeg, director of the Center for European Policy, in Brussels, warned that, in the new international situation, “‘Brexit’ is a minor problem for the EU.”
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