No regulation you say? There is another thread on here (the Grenfell thread) on which regulations were ostensibly in place, but were bypassed or ignored to increase profits.
To be fair this is possibly the greatest irony of Brexit. “We need to be free of EU regs” say the rich right wing independent school educated Tories. “No not that regulation. We meant all the other ones that don’t benefit us over poor people”
Historians will look back at the postwar history of England and ask what the f*** happened to the English?
For many Tories Brexit was all about deregulation. Immigration was just the trojan house to convinced ordinary folk to commit self harm
The best way to let the status quo prevail is to create rules that are ambiguous and a management rubric that doesn't work.
Clearly they only looked at the things they didn't like. No-one will change the things we like, oh s**t they are going to change them as well. No, no that can't happen!
Freeports see Special Enterprise Zones.I don't know what you mean when you say 'freeports are also an issue', Britain has had them pre and post Brexit
As I said I know little about them, I just keep reading that our freeports are outlawed in the EU.I think the £1.3B that would be raised by VAT on education pales into insignificance compared to the £100B pa leaving the customs union has cost us in GDP, and I would imagine any chancellor would think exactly the same. (Ok, maybe not Kwasi)
I don't know what you mean when you say 'freeports are also an issue', Britain has had them pre and post Brexit
That was untrue, because Cameron closed down our freeports in 2012.
A common expression’Health & Safety gone mad’ encouraged by the bosses, so regulations, hard fought, could be ignored for profit.
Permission for a brief digression.
I agree completely.
In terms of irony, could that include the likes of Crow, McLuskey and Corbyn et al being keen to see the back of the EU too?
I was going to write a post about examples of what you describe in your last sentences, but tbh, I could get myself into a whole load of trouble. I'm tainted, anyway. I only saw the dirty laundry. My experience at the sharp end, testing software at companies such as Northern Rock, Equitable Life (oh, and Equiniti), has made me realise I'm better off out of it.
Every country/civilisation has its time. The lessons of history show the constant rise and fall of empires. We have had our time just as the Pharaoh's, the Romans the Hapsburgs the Ottomans before us....the USA could pretty much disintegrate if Trump wins the next election, they will crumble in to infighting and possible Civil War again while China continues its rise and will become the dominant country in the world.....we had about 300 good years as being World leaders but, we f***ed it up.
There’s a reason for that. Think Archer and Belotti land grab.
Good years for whom? Some was good but a lot was bad, with ongoing problems.
I entirely agree, as a nation it was a time of huge prestige, not so good it you were in the armed forces far abroad or doing 14 hour days in a mill or as a servant.