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I saw the JRM/S*n piece floating around on twitter this morning as well.
My first and only thought was:
Is he so bone idle that he can’t be bothered do his own job, or is it that he’s so incompetent that he doesn’t know what “needs” to be done?
Or is it (most likely) a combination of the two?
I was also enraged by the continuous assertion that ‘low regulation’ means ‘agile business country’, when I’d suggest that reality is an almost perfect inversion of that. (Standard caveats regarding over-regulation, of course)
The sooner this shower go, the better we all will be.
It’s altogether more cynical.
Mogg knows he is under the spotlight because of his glaring conflict of interest, and so, he puts a call out to the great unwashed, for suggestions on what regulatory rollback he should pursue. Then when he goes after regulation which will directly benefit his investments, he can claim he was merely doing what the public demanded of him.
Eeeesh! Not a good thought, but I daresay you’re right
Will that even get past the spam filter? Will it get an instant block?
When I saw he’d been given the role of ‘Minister for Brexit Opportunities’, my first thought was that he’ll need to take up a hobby as he’ll have a lot of time on his hands.
AND Government Efficiency. Don’t forget government efficiency. That may take a bit of time!
And, no doubt, what could be more efficient than selling everything off to your buddies in the private sector? At a discount, I’d imagine.
Low regulation means adulterated food, unsafe workplaces, precarious employment, dangerous consumer goods, misselling of financial products, dirty rivers and beaches, spills of chemical waste, and all the rest of it. Welcome to the sunlit uplands, where life is nasty, brutish (or is that british) and short.
Well at least Brexit has created 1 (non)job
A lot of EU rules relate to product standards which are indicated by the CE mark.
These are used by lots of countries outside the EU so they will continue to be used in this country as a lot of our economy is international trade. The difference is that we no longer have a voice in their design.
On that general subject, doesn’t the WTO have a similar regulation?
Yes, but go capacity to enforce it
EU law can be split in to two broad categories:
a) Regulations
b)Directives.
Regulations once agreed by member states come into force across the EU. No further action is needed. (they also have an aspect called “delegated Acts – which is where the serious entertainment tends to start btw).
Directives on the other hand, once agreed at Eu level need to be turned into national legislation – i.e. member state parliaments transpose the legislation into national law. One supposes that Mr Smogg is referring to the latter. In which case, the current “gov” has its work cut out turfing through all that transposed stuff.
Did you know that ground coffee has a maximum content of ground cockroach – thought not. I will leave gentle readers to speculate on the possibilities in this area.
@Mike Parr
Oh dear!
I knew my (always down to the bottom denominator – as Kraft owned) Kenco coffee was tasting a bit poor – but is it really down to the cockroach content?
I know the FDA has specific rules about acceptable levels of insect and rodent contamination, but that is for the US. As far as I am aware, EU and UK rules set a zero tolerance level for foreign bodies in food, but perhaps you know different.
I’d rather have a maximum permitted amount (provided that was set at a suitable low level? Or zero) than no maximum. Think about what might happen then. I’m sure Baldrick would be able rustle something up.
Horrible thought….I remember his cappuccino
There are many supposed reasons for wanting to leave the EU. As yet I have not found one good one
There are good reasons, but nobody would have been interested, had they been told the time horizon on delivering them.
@ Ross
Firstly: I’m not trying to attack you with this question
Out of genuine interest, what are the benefits, and how long would it realistically take to deliver them?