Britain Has Won The Biggest Brexit Prize Of All

[Khandro]

'Over the last two decades it has become clear that the EU is not so much an over-mighty regulator as a really bad one. Mainly because it is bureaucratic and un-democractic, and often under the sway of the lobbyists who spend billions in Brussels every year, it has become more and more intent on clamping down on every form of innovation. That could be seen most clearly in the internet and app economy. It became increasingly hard to believe that Europe’s dire performance against the American and now Chinese giants had nothing to do with the way the industry was crippled by its regulators. But it crept into every area of the economy, from finance, to legal and professional services, to intellectual property. If it was new, innovative and entrepreneurial, the EU either banned it, broke it up, or burdened it with so many costs it was impossible for new companies to get going or to scale up when they did.

The EU was demanding a degree of regulatory alignment from the UK that would have meant we had to stick with every wealth-destroying directive coming out of Brussels. Under-performance in the industries that matter most would have been built into the system. That has rightly been resisted. We will now be able to embrace technologies from artificial intelligence, to driverless cars, flying taxis, lab-grown meat and vertical farms (oh, and vaccines, which the EU seems very slow to approve, even amid a pandemic).' ......


The Spectator

[Khandro]

ichi, //Three counties of Ulster are still happily wholly within the EU//

"Counties" can't be happy or unhappy. What you may mean is, in the 2016 referendum the remain vote won in 3 counties. Would it be the same outcome today after watching the capering of the EU over 4 years, we don't know.

[brainiac]

I think what ichi means is that Ulster comprises nine counties, only six of which are in the UK

[Jackdaw33]

I think what he means is that 6 of the nine counties in Ulster are part of the UK whilst the other three are part of the RoI.

[Jackdaw33]

Snap!

[Togo]

I see that Warden Hodges has his light detector on full scan. The odious BBC(they're next for special attention) are not keen on it, so it must be good. The left wing Ingsoc propaganda drones are all whirring away to the point of spontanious combustion and the remoaners are all gearing up for a run out with the glow bulls to take their (admittedly small) minds off it all. Bless. "I'm Freee". :))

[Khandro]

ichi, ignore my post above please.

[Peter Pedant]

(oh, and vaccines, which the EU seems very slow to approve, even amid a pandemic).' .

yeah I wondered to the beeb what value added there was in delaying approving a vaccine
( same point as Trump I blush to add)

the fluffy beebster tree hugging vaccinologists at Bush House ( the beeb hacks that is!) didnt understand the question

mass vacc has started
I wondered readers if you have got down here - even in America the vaccine was ready on say Friday night and hey - everyone said there's gonna be alodda lodda work to do begin 9 am Monday|!

no distrib ove r the week end then

to change a vacc to take into account the new variant
yoou dont have to go froo the whole rigmarole again
it is like the flu vacc - the approval is about the whole process and not a tweak

[Peter Pedant]

// The left wing Ingsoc propaganda drones//

sorry no left wing in 1984 and no drones
but hey I understood the metaphor

at least when I refer to marxist tree huggers at the Beeb you can be sure they are all marxist and in the background to the news you can spot a few in pixie uniforms hugging saplings or plant pots

[Peter Pedant]

Khandro can you keep your admirably Prussian view of Irish geography to yourself please?

counties can be happy metaphorically
and hey before 1922 - there were a lodda lodda unhappy irish counties ( ja!)

[Khandro]

PP, On my post at at 12:27 Sat. I misunderstood what ichkeria was meaning & later politely asked him to withdraw it when I realized my mistake, & there's nothing Prussian about my views.

What in heaven's name is a 'metaphorically happy county'? It's clear that you have problems writing in English & it would appear you are semantically challenged in the language as well.

[Sunk]

// This was precisely why James Dyson trying to develop electric cars had to stop & move his enterprise out of the EU because he was hamstrung by their regulations. //

Dyson ceased developing electric cars when he realised they would be too expensive to produce. They had made a ‘fantastic’ car in the UK using 500 UK employees.

// Dyson said its engineers had developed a "fantastic electric car" but that it would not be taken further because it was not "commercially viable" and also lack of potential buyers for this project. //

Since the project was abandoned, no further work has been undertaken in Singapore or Malaysia.

Far from hampering electric car development, the EU has actively encouraged it. The Nissan Leaf was a huge success long before Dyson took an interest. Many European car manufacturers have successful electric cars, and Tesla have a manufacturing plant in Berlin.

Some Dyson products have fallen foul of EU regulations on energy usage. But Dyson took its manufacturing to Malaysia for just one reason - cheaper Labour costs.

[Khandro]

Ros Taylor of the LSE wrote in July 2016:

'Business leaders – notably James Dyson and the CEO of JCB – have cited the scale of EU regulation as a reason to leave, and voters have been persuaded.

Graeme MacDonald, the CEO of construction equipment maker JCB, one of Britain’s largest manufacturing companies, argues:

“What is needed is a lot less red tape. … Some of it is costly for us and, quite frankly, ridiculous. Whether that means renegotiating or exiting [the EU], I don’t think it can carry on as it is. It’s a burden. … It’s easier selling to North America than to Europe sometimes.”'