Truly Amazing At Last

Lat night's episode of The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, while it was mostly still silly (no doubt the BBC seriously believes that a Prime Minister from the North of England, as well as being comically improbable in itself, would seek to move Parliament to Bradford and sell off Whitehall), contained the brilliant, if unoriginal, idea that EU legislation should only apply in this country once it has gone through exactly the same parliamentary process as has homegrown legislation. How many people realise that this does not already happen? Why does it not happen? When is it going to be made to happen? And how did so splendid an idea ever make it onto the BBC?