tinybgoat wrote:
"...then pass an act of parliament to annul the 1972 European Communities Act"
I know it's uncertain whether parliament would need to be involved in article 50, but wouldn't that require a vote, and be more contentious due to questionable legality & stupidity?
It would indeed require a Bill, which would need to go through the usual procedures. Unless Parliament (or the Commons at least) voted to give it special fast-track treatment. Which can be done. In theory a Bill can be presented to the Commons in the morning, go through a fast process and be deposited on the Queen's desk for the official signature in the same day.
In practice, outside a real, genuine national emergency that needs an immediate response I think things would be more difficult than that. Whether such a Bill would get a parliamentary majority I have no idea. The Remain wing of all parties would be faced with slapping down the referendum majority and the subsequent political problems that would cause them and most of us. So it might even get approved.
Though repealing that particular Act might cause all kinds of problems with all kinds of legislation passed since then as well. I suppose a catch-all clause along the lines of "this also repeals any legislation that involves any agreements with the EU concerning anything at all, and any legislation that implements EU Directives, policy or requirements" might be inserted. Or something more complex, but there'd need to be an awful lot of care in the drafting and I suspect the courts could be kept quite busy afterwards deciding what the UK's law now actually is.
I'm getting tired of calming down....