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[Jebus_lives]

Glad you could make it Joey.
I really don't think you can find 25,000 "Bad" laws there. There is a danger that each EU Commissioner wants to justify his or her existence by legislating for something. That does not mean that what is provided for is wrong, or not for the greater good. Certainly things can get over complicated, and there is no harm in trying to simplify things from time to time.
If you want to see impenetrable laws, look at children's social care where Acts of parliament are amended year after year, with layer upon layer of new and amending regulations, then statutory guidance, and non-statutory guidance and circulars and letters. There used to be statutory guidance called Working Together and another volume dealing with the assessment of children in need. Cameron's government decided to put them into one volume, and cut out a great deal of important provisions which had helped ensure vulnerable children did not fall through the cracks. It is a shambles. And there is not a word from the EU in any of it.

This is a fantastic post, it's reasonable, even handed and informative, yet I suspect it will be entirely lost on it's audience.

 

[Tea_drinker]

Johnson is set to lower the wage threshold for immigrants. Hope the brexiteers are furious.

 

[Yarrgh]

National Board of Supervisory Studies plus four years City and Guilds in Horticulture passed with distinction Cosh stage 1+2 - Certificate Gardeners examination. - NCH - plus 30 years experience leading to a top job in management .....
do you know the romans got paid in salt?

Forget the Romans, they're still stuck in the EU. Apart from our Carlo.

 

[davids]

That seamless USA UK trade deal appears not to be going exactly how Boris planned. ,5G anyone?

 

[YMJ]

Quote from my dads girlfriend who voted leave!
”So now we are finally out I will be able to bring as many cigarettes and bottles of vodka back as I like back from Spain without the EU limiting how many I am allowed!”

 

[Mr. White]

Quote from my dads girlfriend who voted leave!
”So now we are finally out I will be able to bring as many cigarettes and bottles of vodka back as I like back from Spain without the EU limiting how many I am allowed!”

At best, anecdotal nonsense....more likely, just pure BS.

That said, it's Calais, in the EU, that is hoping for such an arrangement to return. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/calais-eyes-return-to-the-heady-days-of-duty-free-rqt6bq67r

 

[YMJ]

Not sure what the difference between those two things would be, but it isn’t either.
The quotation marks are probably a red herring as I have had to paraphrase slightly but the significance is legit.

 

[roydo]

Brexit: Border delays 'could cause fresh food problems'

Warning comes after Michael Gove tells firms to prepare for post-Brexit border checks from January.

www.bbc.co.uk

But it is going to be easy, apparently.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

In the interest of balance, I was reading a paper this week from UCL, which looked at payroll taxes in Norway. Long story short, they had previously imposed lower payroll taxes in less populated parts of the country to try and encourage businesses in those regions, but it was banned by the EU in (I think) 2004, with the new law saying that taxes had to be uniform across a territory. Analysing the before and after, the data found weaker business growth in regions where taxes were increased, with slightly lower wages also (the caveat being that the analysis was restricted to large employers, as the Norwegian government were able to subsidise things for smaller employers so they were basically not required to pay payroll tax).

Anyway, I've seen similar suggestions this week in Scotland about VAT (they want to impose a lower level than the rest of the UK I think), but would have been barred from doing so during our EU membership. It's possible that there are justifiable reasons for this measure, but it seems a strange one to me, especially as geographic inequality is an issue in most countries in Europe, so being able to charge lower taxes to stimulate growth in those poorer regions would seem sensible.

 

[Huyton Layne]

One huge benefit is people who voted for it having to deal with the reality of it.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

One huge benefit is people who voted for it having to deal with the reality of it.

Thought this must be a parody. Quick look at his twitter feed. Hates cyclists, women’s sport, ‘wokeness’ and is from Leicester. Christ almighty. What happened to him to make him so angry? I’m thinking it’s something penis related

 

[Huyton Layne]

Thought this must be a parody. Quick look at his twitter feed. Hates cyclists, women’s sport, ‘wokeness’ and is from Leicester. Christ almighty. What happened to him to make him so angry? I’m thinking it’s something penis related

I did the same mate. Went through the profile looking for clever wording to give away that it was a parody, but nope, he's just an absolute toolbag

 

[Bungle]

What happened to him to make him so angry?

I think this question is answered by the following

is from Leicester

 

[Khalekan]

One huge benefit is people who voted for it having to deal with the reality of it.

I am loving this story.

And seemingly that was just a test run.

This time next year herds of gammon will be singing the same lament at airports throughout Europe.

 

[Blue 1]

One huge benefit is people who voted for it having to deal with the reality of it.

Oh for God's sake, what an absolute egg.