Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk View Post
International laws can be abided by or not by individual countries at their own discretion. So they are not really a check since they can be ignored if politicians inform the Judiciary they no longer apply. Like the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea which the USA has chosen to not sign up to.

The Brexit campaign was about short slogans to win votes. It certainly wasn't a weighty legal discussion. More of bullshit on a bus.

EU laws can equally be ignored - look at Hungry and Poland for some recent examples, and Germany, France and Spain for some others. Have two or more countries on your side and suddenly the EU can't do anything. Hardly a solution to the problem. And the EU has almost no tools to act on countries in the EU that don't tow the line.

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If that was the case, what was all the debate about sovereignty? If it had always been within our power, why did we need to withdraw from the EU in order to assert that power? I remember one argument being posited that leaving the EU would mean the UK would be responsible for all its actions, that the UK government can no longer blame the EU for everything. We've left the EU, and the UK government is still blaming the EU for everything, including not being able to enact the Rwanda policy. What was the point of Brexit?