Britain swamped by 8 new EU laws every day

Britain is being swamped by 8 new pieces of legislation from Brussels every day according to a fresh analysis of EU output by the U.K. Independence Party.

A report from the U.K. Independence Party on the flood of legislation from Brussels reveals that between 1^st May 2008 and 30^th April 2009, Brussels introduced 2754 pieces of legislation, the equivalent of just under 8 per day. The total included 103 new directives, 1331 new regulations, 921 Commission decisions which had legislative effect and a further 409 other legislative instruments.

EU Commissioner Gunther Verheugen estimated in 2006 that the cost of EU regulation on economies Europe wide was around £581bn, the equivalent of the total economy of a medium sized European nation.

UKIP Leader Nigel Farage said, “We in Britain are being swamped by this torrent of legislation, while our parliament at Westminster is powerless to alter a single word of it. We can't reject any of these laws, we can't change any of them and MPs never bother to read most of them. But we do have to obey all of these laws made for us by Brussels. It's an outrage and we have to get out of this system so that we can once again have British laws for the British people."