[dmje]

This is the myth that the brexiteers sold the nation. And it's pretty much all bullst. See this thread for a pretty well done and amusing takedown https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1087360379691380736.html

[djmobley]

Perhaps I’m missing something, but how does a list of 72 laws the EU forced on the UK refute the “myth” that the EU forced laws on the UK?

[simonh]

I’ve not checked all of them, just about a dozen, but as far as I can tell they’re just regulations and European Council decisions. In other words they’re administrative interpretations of the application of laws. And entirely trivial ones at that. I’m not a lawyer maybe they meet the legal definitions of laws, but whether or not Apertame in particular is an ingredient that needs to be included on contents labels hardly seems like the stuff of international treaties.