{"id":6602,"date":"2016-02-20T08:19:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T08:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6602"},"modified":"2016-02-20T08:19:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T08:19:36","slug":"will-the-brexodus-be-going-through-the-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/02\/20\/will-the-brexodus-be-going-through-the-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Brexodus be going through the Brexit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environmentalists whom I know tend to want to claim that much of the UK's recent pro-environment legislation 'n' regulation stems from the EU rather than from our own parliaments. \u00a0I don't know enough to adjudicate on that view, but it sounds plausible, <em>prima facie<\/em>. \u00a0Of course, not everyone thinks that all such law is wholly positive \u2013 think the EU's anti-science and anti-humanist biases evident in its prejudices against genetic modification. \u00a0Anyway, ...<\/p>\n<p>There wasn't much, if anything, about all this in the documentation emerging last night after the 30 hours of faux EU-drama in Brussels. \u00a0I read it this morning over a large cup of tea. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/uk-britain-eu-factbox-idUKKCN0VS2SH\">Here<\/a> it is. \u00a0It is, of course, largely a comma-free zone and so is hard to read, and it has too much of that scream-inducing tendency to begin non-sentences with present participles:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"Desiring to settle, in conformity with the Treaties, certain issues raised by the United Kingdom ...\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You should read it in all it's glory, and share my pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmentalists whom I know tend to want to claim that much of the UK's recent pro-environment legislation 'n' regulation stems from the EU rather than from our own parliaments. \u00a0I don't know enough to adjudicate on that view, but it...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}