This government declares war on red tape, regulation and quangos while increasing same. A good example that my partner discussed is the governments plans to create a new quango for continual career development for teachers. Yet they scrapped the previous same thing the Teacher Development Agency, (having spent £10s millions relocating it to Nottingham as part of the move of such things away from London). The new part L and O of building regulations are incrediably prescriptive. Probably a good thing to improve building efficiencies. But you get the point. Governments are constantly regulating for the things they like and deregulating for the things they don’t like.
The majority of these were, and are, grown men. It well worth having the odd look in CEX for the DVD "Scream of the Shalka". This was the 40 year anniversary 'celebration' of DW by the beeb. Story-wise it's very good - Richard E Grant was a fantastic Doctor - but it's the first true animated Who - done in 'flash' and still looks pretty good. The release showed the true business acumen of aunty as shortly before transmission they announced that 'proper' DW would be returning to the BBC so there was zero interest in this 'non-canon' DW outing. The DVD extras are very interesting as the story of "...Shalka" is tied up with the invagination into of 'who actually owned Who', the birth of BBC's iPlayer and Russell T Davis enduring the wrath of 'hard-core Whovians' which lead to him closing down, at the time, around half of the BBC's on-line offering.
FFS. They didn’t go to Watford because it was infested with Daleks, and went on to Bedfordshire instead, which had been turned into a giant mining complex. But what the Daleks wanted from mining the Earth’s richest seam of 5hyte was never properly explained.
Isn't that Dutch growth down to the fall in the GBP - EUR rate and they've taken over 'a lot' of our market garden exports to the EU?
We are worse on inflation too. Only the Dutch are experiencing a higher level of inflation that the UK.
My bad ; you are right of course. I meant regulating things they are interested in controlling from the centre, and deregulating things they have no interest of being responsible for. So governments seem obsessed with centralising and homogenising the state education sector. When it comes to the employment market the current government wants to reduce the influence of government on employers. One of the more bizarre things with BREXIT is that the single market massively reduced the regulations within it. As now of course exporters have discovered (or already knew).
Yes indeed. German inflation is about 7%. In any world scenarios, (Covid and a European war have of course spiked inflation across G20 economies), the friction created by BREXIT, with labour shortages, impacted supply chains, etc, etc Will always have created the heat for UK economy inflation to grow at a higher rate to single market economies
The Daleks also aerosoled everyone to death. Tch, didn't they realise they were destroying the planet.
WTAF!? A charity that normally deals with disasters such as earthquakes operating in the UK to deal with the Brexit caused lorry queues in Kent:
We have spent too long focussing on foreign disasters, so it’s another Brexit benefit to home grow them.
Hopefully the charity workers are going up the queue handing out Levelling Up posters, a platinum jubilee street party kit and a guide to potential programming on the new and improved Channel 4 from this autumn.
Oh. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brexit-pushes-asylum-seeker-approvals-to-30-year-high-3z9r3j99k
Brexit fans will go ‘yes, but the pandemic’ but being in a trading block gives greater resilience to shocks. Which we threw away. Still, in Brexit Britain, the toffs will still have their UK luxury cars, so there’s a consolation for the Tories’ newer seats.
Yes, and all very predictable. The Brexit economist Patrick Minford even predicted this so those that voted for Brexit can only have considered this as another "price worth paying" for their Narnia dreams.
So, Rees-Mogg's crowd sourcing Brexit opportunities department has delivered its best ideas. These are the 'top 9', culled from the 2,000 received. I kid you ******* not. Encourage fracking, shortcut rules on planning consultation via emergency act. Abolish the EU regulations that restrict vacuum cleaner power to 1400 watts. Remove precautionary principle restrictions (for instance) on early use of experimental treatments for seriously ill patients and GM crops. Abolish rules around the size of vans that need an operator's licence. Abolish EU limits on electrical power levels of electrically assisted pedal cycles. Allow certain medical professionals, such as pharmacists and paramedics, to qualify in three years. Remove requirements for agency workers to have all the attributes of a permanent employee. Simplify the calculation of holiday pay (eg 12.07 percent of pay) to make it easier for businesses to operate. Reduce requirements for businesses to conduct fixed wire testing and portable application testing. https://www.express.co.uk/news/poli...s-Jacob-Rees-Mogg-suggestions-EU-rules-update Mr Rees-Mogg is said to be “delighted” with the response.
I’d have saved the vacuum cleaner one for later in the list, build to big finish! What a ******* joke. He should be embarrassed that this is what that process has come up with.
Yes, but if Tory voters want to be experimented on or even euthanised that’s their look out. Some daft stuff there. You can certainly qualify as a paramedic in three years now, but educational requirements are not the preserve of voters anyway. They should be down to the colleges and regulators. There are restrictions on the size of vans you can operate and the power allowed for E-bikes for good reasons. Mr Toad loves junking regulation. It was invented for him. People will die if this isn’t approached carefully. Fracking is daft and so is slashing workers rights. However PAT testing? Sometimes that does seem a bit OTT when you find the perfectly good office kettle has had its cord snipped and you are dying for a cuppa.
I can see great potential savings here by using the new, super-charged vacuum cleaners in (2) to carry out the operational aspect following on from (1).
ISTR this was brought about after intense lobbying by the insurance industry in the 70's - it has SFA to do with the EU. It the office microwaves that are generally the problem.
This is odd because the fitness to practice as a pharmacist is overseen by the GPhC are the Tories taking away oversight from a professional, self-regulating, body? Possibly one for @Clive_ofthe_Kremlin could you daughter practice right after graduating in paramedic science (?) or did she need to register with a professional body?
No, the practitioner would still have to register if their profession is subject to statutory regulation.
No, they have to register with the body. All the health people do. You can check online to see if someone is a genuine doctor or paramedic etc. Also, they are then a 'probationer' for the first year and always have a fully experienced paramedic with them. Remember there are also other staff on the ambulance such as Ambulance Technicians and Emergency Care Assistants. The Paramedic has to take charge of them and tell them what to do.
