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Hang the concequencies, I do not want what they want and I voted against it in the only vote that matters.

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I read the European Councils post about “more Europe” yesterday and it just confirmed to me that we must get out with all speed.

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So you dont like the idea of leaving the EU then Ed ?

 

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I see the BBC news is backing project Desperation again. They just spent 20 minutes telling me why our planes will be grounded if we leave the EU with no deal. Apparently all our safety certificates will be invalid ?

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Well I read the link and my conclosion is that the House of lords love the ECHR. No srprise there then. Their main points of contention are.

1. They don’t like the wording of the bill Cameron presented.

2. The EU wouldn’t like it.

3. The devolved governments of the UK may not like it either.

Point two just don’t matter and the other points can be settled by propper consultation with all concerned parties before a new British bill of rights is written. Think of the oppertunities. We could put together a much better bill that IS fit for purpose before we do anything.

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Go for it Duke, get yourself a human rights lawyer. After a couple of years of publicly funded arguments in the UK the supreme court probably  tell you not to be so stupid but dont let that put you off. You can most likely appeal to the ECJ and there is a very good chance that they will decide that your basic human right to an internet connection has indeed been denied you. You could be in line for thousands of pounds of compensation, or at least a free internet subscription ?

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To UEFI boot with windows (the only thing you can do with a GPT disc) you not only have to have the EFI version of Bootmanager in the EFI partition you also have to have the EFI version of Winload in the Windows partition because the standard version just cant read GPT discs

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It looks like you now have a kernel that understands GPT discs too so thats one step towards UEFI ?

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You most likely did that when you reinstalled GRUB.

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As far as I know, if you convert a disc to GPT then you end up with the standard GPT protective MBR all ready for configuring a UEFI system. You can BIOS boot from a GPT disc with Linux (unlike Windows) but the MBR will have to be setup for it.

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The whole front comes off and you can unclip the drive bay cover mesh from behind. This also makes cleaning off the dust easy.

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When David Cameron proposed replacing the act with a British bill of rights he was warned by the EU that it would jepodise our membership. That bit at least is no longer a worry ?

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The Human rights act is UK legislation that officially ties us into the European Convention of Human rights and in most cases  grants a right of appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. On the face of it this is a good idea.

My problem with it is its wide ranging powers. The act has been used for everything from gagging news papers with right to privicy laws to avoiding deportation with that right to a family life one. I also do not like the way that human rights lawers have made a fortune out of dragging cases to the ECJ  when they could and should have been decided by out courts.

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We cant actually have a trade agreement at the moment either. The EU’s own guidelines for negotiation state that a trade agreement can only be entered into after we have formally left the EU. Only discussions about a future “framework” will be allowed.

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Yep you are right the ECJ is not the same as the European court of human rights but the ECJ just cant help sticking its nose in. In December 2014 the ECJ rejected assention to the ECHR for reasons best known to its self but it dose mean it can carry on making its own rulings.

And we do NOT follow the rules of a foreign court if we want a trade agreement. We follow the rules of a trade agreement.

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I said I thought I smelt a rat.

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There is no time limit on this arrangement and we would be obliged to follow any future changes to the rules.

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If Mrs May’s white paper were to be accepted by the EU then the whole issue of leaving would be moot because we wouldn’t be.

In the words of Martin Howe QC our judges will remain “explicitly subserviant” to the ECJ because of our pledge to follow a “common rule book”.

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The Wiki on the Good Friday Agreement is worth a read as well. There is lots of good stuff about British-Irish agreement, a small bit about the EU agreeing the importance of the two nation agreement post Brexit and a teeny weeny bit about the ECHR.

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I am not as interested in the good friday agreement as you are Ed but I am not proposing it changes one bit. Everything can remain as is with the exception being that we will have to be trusted to keep our word once we are not bound by the human rights act.

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