There are some very odd mental gymnastics cropping up with the scrapping of the EU laws. The fact is, Grenfell happened under these EU laws.
People on Twitter are also claiming that we might get another horsemeat scandal if we scrap EU law. Even though the horsemeat scandal happened in Ireland, in the EU. Along with contaminated Dutch eggs, campylobacter riddled German chicken, contaminated Spanish salad, terrible animal welfare in Spain and Denmark and Polish fried chicken that actually killed a bunch of people.
Except we had red tape and it didn’t solve the problem. Catchalls like “red tape” are meaningless to praise as yet another rule is not actually a solution if that rule isn’t fit.
Whenever you hear red tape you should think workers rights like holidays and striking but also safety laws like that for Grenfell but also electrics and gas and everything else in this world that can kill you if its not done properly That is what red tape is about, improving our lives and making the world safer. Anyone who wants to rip that up is doing it purely to profit from suffering.
Sensationalist article which is very misinformed.
Working in the construction industry and especially with regards to compliance, the *British* regulations were overhauled in 2018 and updated in December 2022 in the wake of Grenfell / The Hackit Enquiry. The consultation process is ongoing (Approved Document B).
There’s no connection between European deregulation and changes to our own countries’ building regulations. I have no idea what this article is trying to imply but rest assured it makes bugger-all sense. Any British Standard (BS) will mirror a European equivalent, or (as has been evident in the past) actually been more onerous than the European equivalent!!
This was the main reason the elites & business owners like Dyson & Wetherspoons prick voted for Brexit and hoodwinked the working classes into thinking it was about ‘immigration’ and ‘unelected bureaucrats’ (like the House of Lords) – so they could roll back protectionist EU legislation that gave rights to the employee and thus stopping businesses from doing stuff like ‘at will’ employment like in the USA where they can just let you go without any comeback.
So often ‘red tape’ is just code for those pesky rules that protect the public from rogue businesses trying to cut corners for more profit
Tldr: the official guidance that allowed for flammable cladding was set in the 80s, then we became the dumping ground for crap cladding in the early 2000s when our regulations fell behind those of the rest of the EU.
It sucks because we need a lot of laws binned (Like laws against weed, and laws against protesting), but they seem to only want to bin the ones that are good.
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There are some very odd mental gymnastics cropping up with the scrapping of the EU laws. The fact is, Grenfell happened under these EU laws.
People on Twitter are also claiming that we might get another horsemeat scandal if we scrap EU law. Even though the horsemeat scandal happened in Ireland, in the EU. Along with contaminated Dutch eggs, campylobacter riddled German chicken, contaminated Spanish salad, terrible animal welfare in Spain and Denmark and Polish fried chicken that actually killed a bunch of people.
Except we had red tape and it didn’t solve the problem. Catchalls like “red tape” are meaningless to praise as yet another rule is not actually a solution if that rule isn’t fit.
Whenever you hear red tape you should think workers rights like holidays and striking but also safety laws like that for Grenfell but also electrics and gas and everything else in this world that can kill you if its not done properly That is what red tape is about, improving our lives and making the world safer. Anyone who wants to rip that up is doing it purely to profit from suffering.
Sensationalist article which is very misinformed.
Working in the construction industry and especially with regards to compliance, the *British* regulations were overhauled in 2018 and updated in December 2022 in the wake of Grenfell / The Hackit Enquiry. The consultation process is ongoing (Approved Document B).
There’s no connection between European deregulation and changes to our own countries’ building regulations. I have no idea what this article is trying to imply but rest assured it makes bugger-all sense. Any British Standard (BS) will mirror a European equivalent, or (as has been evident in the past) actually been more onerous than the European equivalent!!
This was the main reason the elites & business owners like Dyson & Wetherspoons prick voted for Brexit and hoodwinked the working classes into thinking it was about ‘immigration’ and ‘unelected bureaucrats’ (like the House of Lords) – so they could roll back protectionist EU legislation that gave rights to the employee and thus stopping businesses from doing stuff like ‘at will’ employment like in the USA where they can just let you go without any comeback.
So often ‘red tape’ is just code for those pesky rules that protect the public from rogue businesses trying to cut corners for more profit
Neat headline, garbage article.
This is much better read on how poor regulation supported the use of flammable cladding: https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/news/the-paper-trail-the-failure-of-building-regulations-55445
Tldr: the official guidance that allowed for flammable cladding was set in the 80s, then we became the dumping ground for crap cladding in the early 2000s when our regulations fell behind those of the rest of the EU.
It sucks because we need a lot of laws binned (Like laws against weed, and laws against protesting), but they seem to only want to bin the ones that are good.