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Theresa May's keynote speech at Tory conference - Oct. 2016 I want it to give British companies the maximum freedom to trade with and operate within the Single Market - and let European businesses do the same here. But let's state one thing loud and clear: we are not leaving the European Union only to give up control of immigration all over again. And we are not leaving only to return to the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. That's not going to happen. We are leaving to become, once more, a fully sovereign and independent country - and the deal is going to have to work for Britain. And that Britain - the Britain we build after Brexit - is going to be a Global Britain.
I want it to give British companies the maximum freedom to trade with and operate within the Single Market - and let European businesses do the same here.
But let's state one thing loud and clear: we are not leaving the European Union only to give up control of immigration all over again. And we are not leaving only to return to the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. That's not going to happen.
We are leaving to become, once more, a fully sovereign and independent country - and the deal is going to have to work for Britain.
And that Britain - the Britain we build after Brexit - is going to be a Global Britain.
British Conservatives are closely allied to the Republicans in the US on free trade, less regulations, ecology, pollution and labor rights, or lack thereof. The Lisbon Treaty is a major stumbling block for Britain. Primarily, David Cameron and the right-wing of the Tories want to rid Britain of the legislation and jurisdiction of Brussels.
Their ideal world will end in no deal, thus a hard Brexit. I see no option whatsoever and the clock ticks.
○ The UK Referendum and the UK Environment - An Expert View (2015)
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There have been Brexit-related suggestions in some quarters that, because the UK is "leaving Europe", English contract law will be a less attractive option in international commerce as the chosen governing law of contracts. Actually, reason and experience indicates otherwise. English law has been the pre-eminent choice of governing law for international business contracts for decades, since long before the UK entered the EU.
9 March Draft Highlights, Draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, pp 130
PART SIX, INSTITUTIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS TITLE I, CONSISTENT INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION [W] Art. 153, Jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning Parts Three and certain provisions of Part Five [W]TITLE III DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
"It is to be remembered that at the time this statute was enacted we had, by express provision, adopted the common law of England, and, with three exceptions, the statutes of that country passed prior to the fourth year of James the First, so far as they were applicable to our condition."
*I was looking for something else, Harris vs. Quinn (2014), an event that had me quite out of joint at the time, into Taft-Hartley, and RAYGUN (1981). So it goes, the hand-wringing, too little, too late. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
Studs Terkel, AUDIO/EN Jim Paulei of PATCO discusses the air traffic controller's strike and describes a day on the job. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
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