So tell me, in what way did we NOT have our own laws? We didn’t want to join the single currency, we voted against joining the single currency, we didn’t join the single currency. OUR choice. Britain, Germany and France were the Big Three when it came to setting out EU Rules, so the vast majority of EU laws are so closely aligned with our own Laws that it made no difference.
Controlling our borders? We’ve always been able to kick out ‘undesireables’. Non-EU Asylum seekers have to claim asylum at the first ‘safe’ country they enter. If they come here via France, Belgium, Spain or any other EU country we can return them to their country of departure. We have ALWAYS been able to do that as a member of the EU. From January 1st we WON’T be able to return them as we will no longer be a member of the EU. They will have to be deported in the same way as we deport everyone else. That usually takes months, even years, because the Departments responsible are massively underfunded and understaffed for the job, NOT because the EU doesn’t let us. As for EU immigrants – having done our best to demonise them and send them packing back to ‘their own country’ we now have a critical shortage of Hospital staff of all levels, including Catering and Housekeeping, a critical shortage of Social Care workers, and crops rotting in the fields because the British won’t do the work for the pay offered. We tried recruiting British unemployed, students and furloughed workers for the Autumn Harvest – 10% never turned up and after a week, over half quit.