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Have many unpopular laws actually been repealed/rescinded by a successive government in this country. As far as I can remember it rarely happens, except for obscure and/or out of date statute.
I can think of unpopular laws/amendments to laws that were passed despite opposition from shadow politicians and other parties, who once in power made no attempt to amend or repeal.
the list of repealed acts of parliament is surprisingly short
but acts can just expire or they can be modified and amended
Some are just ignored - Labour's Child Poverty Act has never been repealed - the current government just sort of ingnores it. Change the name of a few things so it doesn't sound like the old initiative, stop measuring its effectiveness, stop publishing targets or outcomes. The act came with a commitment to half child poverty by 2020. The government of the day just stopped measuring child poverty around 2013 - whether poverty halved or doubled it didnt really know or care.
The Child Poverty Act is a good example of what usually happens in the UK - the Act as a whole isn't repealed (hence the short list above), but all or all the important sections are individually repealed by subsequent Acts.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/9
Yeah as I thought. I suppose it's partly for practical reasons, in that if it was a game of legislative tennis, it would make a mockery of the system.
So the idea (repeated on this very forum) that governments of different stripes reverse everything once in power is a fantasy. My experience is they usually pick up the baton and carry on with things, taking credit for the good and blaming the other ****ers for anything bad/unpopular until it's forgotten about.
Remember this when they get a foot in the door, we are pretty much stuck with it for generations.
We're about to repeal/remove a shed load of stuff, most of it useless and never used, under the Residual EU Law act, basically a Rees Mogg initiative to diverge us permanently from the EU.
"One idea understood to be under consideration is for Badenoch to announce in the coming months a list of obviously redundant EU laws that could be abolished without controversy and hail this symbolic move as proof that ministers were delivering on Brexit."
This is the bit I refer to that will still happen.
[i]“One idea understood to be under consideration is for Badenoch to announce in the coming months a list of obviously redundant EU laws that could be abolished without controversy and hail this symbolic move as proof that ministers were delivering on Brexit.”[/i]
Yay, we will be able to buy bent bananas again!
Won’t happen. Whole thing will quietly be forgotten.
Yes - it’s enough to say it will happen for people to believe it has happened.
Yes, let's strip away all those useless unwanted EU laws. You knew the kind of thing
- monitoring sewage levels in the water at the seaside, and publishing the results
- roaming charges on mobiles
- removing lead piping from household water supplies
- stopping the use wonder materials like asbestos (FFS I mean it's such a great material the GB government of the day resisted the move to ban it).
Hurrah for progress 🤔
I'm no Tory apologist but you'd do well to fact check the fear mongering about what legislation is being removed. I see nothing on the list of 1000s of things that suggests our standards (on food, safety, water etc.) will be lower.
More worrying is our accession to the CPTPP and what we'll be forced to accept.
Yay, we will be able to buy bent bananas again!
Hurrah for progress
It's the Russian smelly cats fault.
Our law is predicated on what went before, and how it was interpreted, and whether it remains relevant. Any law that is passed is poised, like a military unit, ready to find that the best plan can be foiled by first contact with the enemy.
There was a cull of ancient law in the Blair years, if i remember rightly, but it is moot whether that sort of thing is particularly relevant or necessary. For example, it remained technically legal for centuries, and may still be the case today, to murder a Welshman within the walls of Chester after midnight, but only if you used a longbow. One would suggest that an appeal to that particular technicality might not win the day if you happen to be before the Beak for that particular crime tomorrow.