Give Parliament More Control Over EU Law-Making, says Politeia's latest pamphlet.
Each year around 1,000 EU measures become law in the UK. Most of these are never debated in the House of Commons. Many are not even considered by the Committees of the House. Theresa May, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons, explains in Politeia’s next pamphlet* that there is a failure of scrutiny. Parliament, under the present system, is unable to hold the Government to account over many EU laws. The problem, says May, owes much to the structures of the EU which leave national parliaments with little say in proposing, preparing or passing EU legislation: they merely implement directives. All the UK Parliament can do is to hold ministers to account and in this way influence the European Council. However the UK’s scrutiny system, which aims to give Parliament such power, is failing.
*Restoring Parliamentary Authority: EU Laws and British Scrutiny, by Theresa May and Nicholas Timothy, is available online:
http://www.politeia.co.uk/Portals/0/may_final.pdf
Two Shocks and One Change: Global tax competition and public service crisis may prompt vital tax and spending curbs for UK to flourish, says Politeia’s pamphlet.
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UK is to prosper in today's global economy, it must change. The problem, Deepak Lal suggests, is two fold. The state by nature is predatory and politicians have a vested interest in keeping voters on the public payroll. At the same time public services are inefficient and fail to reach the standards expected, and paid for, by taxpayers. But the predatory state must change; otherwise its taxpaying victims will flee with their money and invest elsewhere. If the UK is to survive, classical liberal thinking must govern the economy. Tax and public spending levels must be curbed. The winds of competition which blew through nationalized industries in the 1980s, must now create the same beneficial changes in the public services.
*Taxing Matters: Moving the UK from Predator State to Global Economy, by Deepak Lal, is available online:
http://www.politeia.co.uk/pub/lal_final.pdf