The right honourable member of parliament for the 19^th century.
For more on the new Rees Mogg dastardly devious Brexit device:
>The UK government has invited people to use a new website to identify EU laws they wish to scrap, in a move that would deliver a “crucial boost to productivity” but which critics dismissed as a Brexiter “vanity exercise”.
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>Jacob Rees-Mogg [unveiled the online “dashboard” in parliament](https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/governmentreporting/viz/UKGovernment-RetainedEULawDashboard/Guidance) on Wednesday, which lists 2,400 pieces of “retained EU law” that have been transferred to the UK statute book. The Brexit opportunities minister then invited members of the public to say which pieces they wanted to repeal.
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>“This dashboard offers the public a real opportunity: everything on it we can now change,” he told MPs, adding: “Together we will make reforms that will create a crucial boost to productivity and help us bring the benefits of growth to the whole country.”
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>However, the Labour opposition, leading economists and experts in regulatory policy said that removing small amounts of residual EU law — a long-cherished objective of Brexiters — would not bring sudden economic benefits and could even reduce the attractiveness of the UK to inward investment.
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>Stephen Doughty, the shadow Europe minister, said the scheme was a Brexiter “vanity project” and a “make-work scheme” for Whitehall officials and government departments charged with delivering quarterly progress reports.
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>Doughty added that it was not clear how many members of the public would ever delve into the government’s new “digital filing cabinet” of EU law.
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>The Office for Budget Responsibility, the independent fiscal watchdog, has said that Brexit will ultimately reduce productivity and UK gross domestic product by 4 per cent compared with if the UK had retained EU membership.
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>Thomas Sampson, an associate professor of economics at the London School of Economics who has modelled the effects of Brexit on UK trade, said there was no economic basis for the assertion that cutting EU regulation would deliver a “crucial boost” to productivity.
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>“Since 2016 the government has failed to identify any changes to EU regulations that would make a substantial difference to productivity growth. There is no reason to believe that the latest initiative will change that fundamental fact,” he added.
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>Nicholas Crafts, professor of economic history at Sussex university, said that even the most optimistic estimates made at the time of the 2016 EU referendum by the pro-Brexit think-tank Open Europe found deregulation could increase GDP by 0.7-1.3 per cent — far short of the 4 per cent hit from leaving the EU single market.
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>“That was the most optimistic estimate, but you would have offset that against the costs associated with divergence which can themselves deter investment,” he said. …
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>([*FT: Rees-Mogg asks public to say which retained EU laws they want to scrap*](https://www.ft.com/content/ba5b3944-178b-4084-87da-75614edb3fb7) – ([🪞](https://archive.ph/2mVyN)))
> Did you know you can’t sell sparkling wine in a plastic bottle? You may think drinking sparkling wine out of a plastic bottle is dreadful, but if you want to, why should there be a law stopping you?
There isn’t, Jacob, you almighty fuckwit. You are perfectly entitled to decant your wine into a plastic bottle and drink it from that if you want. Selling and drinking are different things.
Is there an option to indicate particular pieces of, for example, employment rights or consumer protection within EU retained laws that citizens think should at all costs be preserved? Or is it only scrapping rights and protections that can be supported through this portal?
I’m surprised he knows what plastic is. Maybe he’s picturing bakelite?
> Did you know you can’t sell metal forks to insert into plug sockets? You may think scratching your bum with a metal fork inserted into a plug socket is dreadful, but if you want to, why should there be a law stopping you?
He really is trying to appeal to the dregs in our society now isnt he
So Brexit would only have an upside?
Six years after the vote, and two years after we actually withdrew, the benefits are still so imperceptible that they have to appoint a minister to look for them. Then he has to ask the electorate.
And still, the best they can come up with is “You can put your Prosecco in plastic bottles now. Hurrah!”
What’s the point of a snobby nobby if they don’t understand why quality luxury items are how they are? If he can’t understand finer wines then why the fuck do we have this nanny boy?
I suspect JRM has never opened his own sparkling wine. Anyone who has would immediately understand the amongst of pressure built up.
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The right honourable member of parliament for the 19^th century.
For more on the new Rees Mogg dastardly devious Brexit device:
>The UK government has invited people to use a new website to identify EU laws they wish to scrap, in a move that would deliver a “crucial boost to productivity” but which critics dismissed as a Brexiter “vanity exercise”.
>
>Jacob Rees-Mogg [unveiled the online “dashboard” in parliament](https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/governmentreporting/viz/UKGovernment-RetainedEULawDashboard/Guidance) on Wednesday, which lists 2,400 pieces of “retained EU law” that have been transferred to the UK statute book. The Brexit opportunities minister then invited members of the public to say which pieces they wanted to repeal.
>
>“This dashboard offers the public a real opportunity: everything on it we can now change,” he told MPs, adding: “Together we will make reforms that will create a crucial boost to productivity and help us bring the benefits of growth to the whole country.”
>
>However, the Labour opposition, leading economists and experts in regulatory policy said that removing small amounts of residual EU law — a long-cherished objective of Brexiters — would not bring sudden economic benefits and could even reduce the attractiveness of the UK to inward investment.
>
>Stephen Doughty, the shadow Europe minister, said the scheme was a Brexiter “vanity project” and a “make-work scheme” for Whitehall officials and government departments charged with delivering quarterly progress reports.
>
>Doughty added that it was not clear how many members of the public would ever delve into the government’s new “digital filing cabinet” of EU law.
>
>The Office for Budget Responsibility, the independent fiscal watchdog, has said that Brexit will ultimately reduce productivity and UK gross domestic product by 4 per cent compared with if the UK had retained EU membership.
>
>Thomas Sampson, an associate professor of economics at the London School of Economics who has modelled the effects of Brexit on UK trade, said there was no economic basis for the assertion that cutting EU regulation would deliver a “crucial boost” to productivity.
>
>“Since 2016 the government has failed to identify any changes to EU regulations that would make a substantial difference to productivity growth. There is no reason to believe that the latest initiative will change that fundamental fact,” he added.
>
>Nicholas Crafts, professor of economic history at Sussex university, said that even the most optimistic estimates made at the time of the 2016 EU referendum by the pro-Brexit think-tank Open Europe found deregulation could increase GDP by 0.7-1.3 per cent — far short of the 4 per cent hit from leaving the EU single market.
>
>“That was the most optimistic estimate, but you would have offset that against the costs associated with divergence which can themselves deter investment,” he said. …
>
>([*FT: Rees-Mogg asks public to say which retained EU laws they want to scrap*](https://www.ft.com/content/ba5b3944-178b-4084-87da-75614edb3fb7) – ([🪞](https://archive.ph/2mVyN)))
> Did you know you can’t sell sparkling wine in a plastic bottle? You may think drinking sparkling wine out of a plastic bottle is dreadful, but if you want to, why should there be a law stopping you?
There isn’t, Jacob, you almighty fuckwit. You are perfectly entitled to decant your wine into a plastic bottle and drink it from that if you want. Selling and drinking are different things.
Is there an option to indicate particular pieces of, for example, employment rights or consumer protection within EU retained laws that citizens think should at all costs be preserved? Or is it only scrapping rights and protections that can be supported through this portal?
I’m surprised he knows what plastic is. Maybe he’s picturing bakelite?
> Did you know you can’t sell metal forks to insert into plug sockets? You may think scratching your bum with a metal fork inserted into a plug socket is dreadful, but if you want to, why should there be a law stopping you?
He really is trying to appeal to the dregs in our society now isnt he
So Brexit would only have an upside?
Six years after the vote, and two years after we actually withdrew, the benefits are still so imperceptible that they have to appoint a minister to look for them. Then he has to ask the electorate.
And still, the best they can come up with is “You can put your Prosecco in plastic bottles now. Hurrah!”
What’s the point of a snobby nobby if they don’t understand why quality luxury items are how they are? If he can’t understand finer wines then why the fuck do we have this nanny boy?
I suspect JRM has never opened his own sparkling wine. Anyone who has would immediately understand the amongst of pressure built up.
More gobblygook from The Haunted Pencil.