[Split Thread] Brexit and the Environment

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Posted By:Agatha

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Originally Posted by MikeG (Post 11784953) You have no evidence for this assertion whatever, other than deep personal bias.

The assertion from the Leave campaign is that the UK would be more competitive internationally as a result of Brexit. I have repeatedly asked anyone who is pro-Brexit (including my local MP, and colossal tool, David Davies) to explain how this will happen without there being a significant reduction in pay, conditions or workers' and environmental protections.

Here's a couple of cherry-picked quotes from a comparatively recent BBC article on the subject of the possible impact of Brexit on the environment

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Brexit poses a huge risk to UK wildlife and habitats and a new environmental law will be needed, MPs have said. Even where EU law is incorporated into the UK's legal framework there could still be problems, they warn.

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European law protects huge amounts of the UK's environment, farming and countryside," Mary Creagh, chair of the committee, told BBC News. "The process of leaving the EU presents a huge risk to all of those protections which is why in our report we're calling for a new environmental protection act so that when we leave the European Union we are no worse off protected than we are at the moment."

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