Government Uses EU to Bypass UK Constitution

The UK government is using the London bombings to advance its Big Brother agenda. It wants internet and mobile phone companies to retain data about user activity for extended periods, ostensibly for intelligence purposes. This agenda has previously run into considerable opposition, both in Parliament and among civil liberties and other groups.

Now the government intends using the device of an EU inter-governmental agreement - which is not enforceable by the EU - to enable implementation within the UK without an Act of Parliament, and hence without normal Parliamentary scrutiny, and without the possibility of Parliamentary amendment.

As the EU Referendum blog points out in an illuminating post, the UK government is using the EU to legislate in the UK outside the normal Parliamentary process, effectively bypassing the UK constitution.

It is an extremely important point to grasp in understanding how Britain is losing its constitutional safeguards, and Parliament has lost a large part of its power, not simply to the EU, but to the executive.