Nick Maclaren wrote in message ...
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anton wrote:

The mindless interpretation and enforcement of EU directives is a UK
problem.

Those of us with long memories will remember that it was no different
before we joined the EU,

Wrong. Even if you choose to believe that the quality of govt
regulations is no worse since accession to the EU, the
increase in the volume of regulations is beyond dispute.

So? The rate of increase has not changed. It was increasing
rapidly before we joined, and had been for a long time.

Source? I seem to recollect a plateauing in the 1980, f'rinstance.

The UKrats
seized on the EU as an opportunity and an excuse, but there is not
a scrap of evidence it is even a part of the cause of the increase.

You're overegging the pudding so madly that you can only be wrong. The
source of many of these regs is the EU, and that's
at the very least a 'scrap of evidence'. You lose.


but that fact is conveniently forgotten by
the Little Englanders.

They're in rather short supply old, chap. That mindset seems
to have been taken over by europhiliacs who believe that the
drawbridge can be drawn up around the EU, protecting its
little nonsenses from the big bad world.

I am afraid that you are simply one of the suckers

back on topic, but it's a reference failure. Now my stagshorn
sumach.........

that has been
taken in by the Big Lie, promulgated from Whitehall and the Little
England press. UK politicians have no views of there own, nowadays.


Dear oh dear. And there was me thinking that I was a well-informed observer
of matters political. Back to my current
currant pruning.

have fun

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Anton