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Daniel Hannan begs in the Telegraph; he is of course writing about the BBC Christmas Repeal Which law should be tossed into the dustbin of British history?

Hannan says we should blowtorch all of the six finalists the Dangerous Dogs Act, the Hunting Act, the Human Rights Act, the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act, the Act of Settlement and the European Communities Act.

But theses six should be a mere apéritif. What about the 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act, which spawned that slavering manticore, the Health and Safety Executive? Or the 1972 Local Government Act, which destroyed our traditional counties? How about the 1989 Football Supporters Act, the 1997 Firearms Act, the 2000 Financial Services Act, the 2006 Identity Cards Act?

Hannan would like to raze them all; to hack away the brushwood and prune the undergrowth, leaving the glassy-smooth lawn of the limited state.

But we have to start somewhere. Before baling out the tub, let us at least turn off the tap. And that means voting for the 1972 European Communities Act:

For that Act is not like any other piece of legislation. It does not simply lay down what we can and can’t do. Rather, it creates a new legal order, that of European law, and gives it primacy over our own statutes. To put it another way, it creates a mechanism whereby EU laws are automatically given force in the United Kingdom, with or without an implementing decision by Parliament.

In 1972, few of us understood this. If we did, we tended to assume that the supremacy of European law would be confined to cross-border issues, such as trade, competition and pollution. We didn’t imagine for a moment that Brussels would one day become the main source of legislation in this country, decreeing what hours we work, what taxes we pay, what we plant in the ground and fish from the sea, who settles on our territory, what we buy and sell, and in what units.

The tendrils of Euro-legislation curl into even the tiniest crevices, regulating matters that you’d have thought couldn’t possibly have an international dimension. The ban on mineral supplements and herbal remedies? Brussels. Car seats for 12-year-olds? Brussels. The rigmarole you have to go through to open a bank account these days? Brussels.

In fact, the EU is responsible for 80 per cent of the legislation in the member states. (We owe this awesome statistic to the German government; our own refuses to name the figure.) Which raises the question: why bother voting? What is the point of placing your cross next to the name of this or that candidate when four out of every five laws adopted in Britain are proposed, not just by people that you didn’t vote for, but by EU officials whom nobody voted for?

The countryside alliance are urging their supporters to use this opportunity to make known to the government yet again, their dislike of the disaster the Hunting Act has become, but I would beg them to consider that first and foremost they are British voters. The huntsmen and women have mounted an outstanding defence of their sport and have already made a nonsense of hunting act and have already a promise from the Conservative party to repel the act. Just as the countryside alliance brought together different countryside concerns under the one banner, now we all now need to make it clear to the political and media elite that we all want our power to elect and dismiss our own law makers returned to us the people. The countryside alliance slogan is “love the countryside” how about just this once “love the country” and do something to return the power to our own elected politicians.

So please put aside all of your own special interests and please vote to “Turn of the Tap” then we can begin to reverse the disaster our membership of the EU has wrought in this once great country.

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