Re: Funny ...
It's interesting. The EU ruling has no more effect on UK legislation than the establishment of a new directive. UK law still has to be changed before it becomes law in the UK. What would have happened is that if someone had complained to the relevant EU court about the existing legislation, the UK government could have been fined. The UK law would still have to have been amended or repealed before the metadata could have been deleted.
If the ISPs had started deleting the metadata, they would have been in breach of the still extant UK legislation. They could have appealed any action in the EU court, but they still would technically have broken the existing UK law. There was no need to pass this emergency legislation, and it should have been properly discussed either earlier in this session of parliament, or at the beginning of the next.
There's some change in there that the government was desperate to enact that's not been spotted yet.