Verbatim report of proceedings

Tuesday, 12 April 2016 - Strasbourg

Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme (A8-0208/2015 - Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann)

  Diane James (EFDD), in writing. – UKIP voted against the Kaufmann report today. As a matter of principle we do not support and will not vote for any report which accepts the right of the EU to make the laws of the United Kingdom, however virtuous the proposals seem in isolation. The report makes it clear that, in whatever form, the process of legislation is going to continue. Its only virtue is that it impliedly damns the method of legislation that has pertained over the last sixty-odd years and which has so damaged the fabric of British trade, manufacturing and business since our entry into the then EEC in 1973 by burdensome and anti-competitive legislation. Sadly, the damage – vast damage – has already been done and is ongoing. Only by returning all legislative power to a newly-liberated UK Parliament with all its sovereignty restored, can the legislative process be made relevant to UK interests and legislators fully accountable to the people.