A new document has revealed that nearly two million Britons are still being subjected by decisions taken Brussels without any say on the matter.
According to the report from Facts4EU produced exclusively for GB News, the EU is denying 1.91 million people living in Northern Ireland the right to vote against the bloc, which makes a substantial proportion of the laws governing them.
Facts4EU has collected the legal annexes, which impact nearly two million British people.
Across 48 pages of A4, there are around eight headings per page, referring to EU laws, Directives, Regulations and Rules.
Each of these headings - which total at around 350 - then have to be looked up in the EU’s legal database, where there are pages of text on each law, Directive, Regulation and Rule, running into thousands of pages of legal instruments governing the lives of British people.
Some of the regulations include limits on the permissible sound level and the exhaust system of motor vehicles (Council Directive 70/157/EEC), the protection of species of wild flora and fauna by regulating trade (EC/338/97) and setting standards of quality for the collection, testing, processing, storage and distribution of human blood and blood components (2002/98/EC).
What the document shows is that the EU makes new laws where Northern Ireland and the UK Government continue to have no say and no vote on them.
The EU then makes Northern Ireland impose these laws and police their enforcement. If they fail to do so, they will be taken to the EU’s Court and Administration which will enforce them, with penalties
The regulations are impacting voters in Northern Ireland
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It is not just Northern Ireland where these 350 or so regulations are starting to creep in.
Sir Keir Starmer has been agreeing to introduce similar measures across the whole of the UK. Examples of this include the Metrology (‘weights & measures’) Bill.
This involves an EU Regulation put into UK law, without any debate in Parliament. This process of "creep, creep, creep" is now established and set to keep growing, as part of Sir Keir’s "re-set" of UK-EU relations.
Whether you live in Birmingham, Blairgowrie, Bangor or Belfast, you will soon find your lives affected by laws over which you had no say and your MP had no vote.
Keir Starmer could bring in the regulations bringing the whole of the UK closer to the EU
| PAReacting to the report, Antrim-born Labour peer Baronesse Hoey said: "The way they are treating the UK through Northern Ireland is quite unnecessary and places their standing in the world in jeopardy.
"The Irish Sea Border must be removed so that the whole United Kingdom is once again fully enfranchised.
"While this is an attack particularly on UK citizens in NI, make no mistake this is an attack on the ‘integrity’ of the United Kingdom as a whole in every sense of the word.
"No self-respecting country with a future can afford to allow itself to be treated in this way. We must come together and not allow the EU to divide and undermine us."
TUV leader Jim Allister said it was a bad sign for both the UK and the EU
| GETTYTUV leader Jim Allister added: "Far from nurturing democracy every day the EU is doing something that no other developed country is doing.
"It is instead defying democracy every day by making legislation that it applies to us through a legislature in which we are not represented, denying democracy in relation to legislation where it previously held sway.
"Moreover, far from being a problem that is going away, this is a problem that is getting worse and worse, as the number of pieces of imposed legislation just goes up and up over time.
"While this is a very bad sign for the UK, the truth is that it is also very bad for the EU which is damaging its reputation by imposing these arrangements."
The regulations could bring the UK closer to that of Brussels
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Despite this, the EU continues to maintain that "we reaffirm the vital importance of upholding democratic principles", adding that "they are more important than ever and underpin the fabric of our societies."
A official tweet from the EU Commission account on X read: "Built on voting, speaking up, and staying informed.
"We’re not just celebrating it. Together, we’re nurturing it every day.
"Democracy, fundamental rights, and the rule of law are the backbone of our European Union."