ECJ

Jacob Rees-Mogg has a particular hatred for the European Court of Justice, but I'm at a loss to know why. The only criticisms of the ECJ that I can find are nothing to do with the rulings, but the backlog of cases - in that respect it's not much different from the British courts.

One of the problems is that fines are quite hefty, which makes an appeal almost automatic, and that adds to the time taken for a case to be completed, but other than that, no-one is complaining, except for a bit of minor tinkering and in that applies to any organisation.

The ECJ has been raised as the poster institution of the Brexit camp for no logical reason and Brexiteers are being whipped into a frothy-mouthed fury about an organisastion which does nothing more than protect their EU consumer rights and arbitrates between EU member states on EU law. It seems more to do with the fact it has the word European in it.