A significant amount of laws thought of as 'local' or 'British' actually come from abroad, a BBC investigation has revealed.
The BBC secretly analysed 40 British laws passed recently, and found that 78% of them were actually from Brussels. And another 18%, though genuinely British, only existed because the United States wanted them as law, and the other 4% were for MPs' pay rises and trips abroad.
Jill Bulldogbreed, of the Britain Is Still Important Society, said: 'It's a big con. It exploits the British people's desire for British laws, and until it's audited the situation will only get worse.'
The government told the BBC it had not been aware that foreign laws had been passed off as British.
Deputy Yesman, Alastair Lying, speaking from Strasbourg, said: 'Of course we aren't ruled by the EU. We still have, er, well Irn Bru and jellied eels - let's see what the EU does about that!'
