Natasha  🇪🇺3d ago

Irish Legal News: A landmark EU court ruling on legal gender recognition “double underlines” the incompatibility of a controversial UK Supreme Court ruling with EU law, meaning it cannot be implemented in Northern Ireland, Irish Legal News has been told ...

"Paragraph 54 is also a rebuke to the UK Supreme Court in FWS – when the Equality Act 2010 was laid down, the UK was part of the EU and UK protections against discrimination had to work in line with EU law, a factor in statutory interpretation that the UKSC skips over in FWS.”

https://www.irishlegal.com/articles/eu-ruling-double-underlines-trans-rights-must-stay-in-northern-ireland

#Ireland #NI #UK #Transrights #EU #Brexit

New CJEU ruling ‘double underlines’ transgender rights must stay in Northern Ireland

A landmark EU court ruling on legal gender recognition "double underlines" the incompatibility of a controversial UK Supreme Court ruling with EU law, meaning it cannot be implemented in Northern Ireland, Irish Legal News has been told. The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) last week rul

Irish Legal News
Show threadNatasha  🇪🇺3d ago
This quote - aforementioned paragraph 54 - from the CJEU should be sent to Lord Reed and others of the UK Supreme Court every time they speak in public
Show threadNicola Elle 🏳️‍⚧️3d ago
@Natasha_Jay More and more, as I look at the motivations behind Brexit and the events in its aftermath, I am left wondering if the reason people in the UK voted leave was so that they could just be a bunch of bigots without worrying about the EU.
Show threadNatasha  🇪🇺3d ago

@NicolaElle
I now think this and freedom of movement within the EU or even within a close trading relationship will preclude the UK rejoining the EU, or getting close in my lifetime.

Not the public, but the UK establishment are the issue for a number of reasons.

Show threadIsabel Ruffell3d ago

@Natasha_Jay @NicolaElle

#Labour are the problem: their delusion that they can have close ties without freedom of movement has impeded any chances of an outbreak of serious policy.

Show threadNicola Elle 🏳️‍⚧️

@iaruffell @Natasha_Jay. Exactly. It's SO not happening. Again, not in your lifetime, nor in mine.

Mainly because, as you say, there's no real incentive now among the establishment. I get the sense that it's becoming a third-rail now; Labour politicians don't want to discuss it for fear of alienating right-wingers that might vote for them, and anything to the right of Labour certainly wouldn't. It would probably take Labour's destruction, a Green wave, and maybe Scottish/NI independence for return to the EU to even be on the table.

No, what the UK establishment clearly wants is an FTA similar to NAFTA/USMCA: a free trade zone so it gets the benefits of unrestricted trade with the EU, but the right to be as bigoted and thick-headed as it wants beyond that.

Mar 16 at 6:16pmWeb
Show threadNatasha  🇪🇺3d ago

@NicolaElle
I think the red lines on both sides will preclude rejoining the EU or a meaningful trade agreement.

Even on a first tentative step recently the UK can't accept that EU students should pay local UK university fees (about £9k pa) vs overseas rates (over £30k pa).

Labour shoot themselves in the foot. Repeatedly. On such small gives. It has to be ideological, they cannot be that dumb can they?

@iaruffell

Show threadIsabel Ruffell2d ago

@NicolaElle @Natasha_Jay

I fear you are right. Indeed, this #Labour incarnation is way more likely to leave the ECHR THAn rejoin the EU. But I don't think it is an "establishment" thing, so much as #Starmer's dogged commitment to profound political miscalculation.

It has always been about the racism and xenophobia. The transphobia is just the cherry on top.