Starmer vows to clear ‘regulatory weeds’ ahead of Reeves growth speech
Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to “clear out the regulatory weeds” to encourage growth, as Rachel Reeves will say that Britain has been “held back” and “accepted stagnation” in a major economic speech.
The Prime Minister invoked his New Labour predecessors and Margaret Thatcher, and said that for “too long regulation has stopped Britain building its future”.
It comes as the Chancellor is due to set out policies on Wednesday to encourage economic growth, and hail the region around Oxford and Cambridge as having “the potential to be Europe’s Silicon Valley”.
Europe's Silicon Valley? Not Britain's Silicon Valley?
As everyone knows, Starmer and Reeves have a major political problem in that nobody believes what they say. It has become impossible for either of them to make speeches and announcements. They do make speeches and announcements, but they no longer have the ability to make themselves heard. They gave it away.
Nobody cares what "regulatory weeds" are supposed to be and nobody cares what Starmer proposes to do about them. Nobody cares about "Europe's Silicon Valley" either, apart from those people likely to be the recipients of taxpayers' largesse.
It's the two dead parrots sketch.
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They are the sort of buffoons who think that in the age of Zoom it would be a grand idea to build an Oxford-Cambridge railway.
Regulation stops Britain from building its future? Yes, of course it does.
But you'll note, these clowns have still not abolished the EU's "nutrient equivalence" rules - even though they could. And we still have rules about bats, newts, and so on.
Talk is cheap.
By their deeds shall ye know them.
If it's Sturmer and Co you can be sure it will be another silly con . . .
"Europe's Silicon Valley? Not Britain's Silicon Valley?"
Whoops! If anyone was listening, you could have given the game away there!
It occurs to me that if there were such a thing as a regulatory weed, it would look a lot like Milliamp.
It certainly is the clown show. Regulatory weeds?
Arch Bureaucrat declares bureaucracy a problem. Do new public bodies give the game away?
Great British Energy
National Energy Systems Operator
National Wealth Fund
Industrial Strategy Council
National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority
Great British Railways (yet to be created)
Passenger Standards Authority (Announced)
Skills England
Regulatory Innovation Office
National Data Library (Announced)
National Care Service (Announced)
Fair Work Agency (Being legislated)
School Support Staff Negotiating Body (Being legislated)
Armed Forces Commissioner (Being legislated)
Border Security Command
National Centre of Policing
Ethics and Integrity Commission (Announced)
Independent Football Regulator (Being legislated)
I put it to you, m'lud, that clearing regulatory reeds doesn't extend to clearing centralising regulatory powers (and jobs for the fellow travellers).
"regulatory weeds" reminds me of Bill & Ben, Flower Pot Men. There was a character called Little Weed which Starmer could play in a new edition of the show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6zNwBTLSWU
dearieme - I remember reading about the history of the Varsity Line some time ago. Yes, in the age of Zoom there is no point replacing it.
Peter - I don't know much about that apart from noticing when I first came across it how depressingly bureaucratic it is.
Jannie - ha ha, that's good, Silly Con Valley.
Sam - yes it would look a lot like Milliamp. Pull up that weed and a great deal would be achieved.
James - yes, even the slogans are weedy.
DJ - good grief that's a depressing list. More in the pipeline I believe. Starmer and co. know this of course, they know they are sowing those regulatory weeds because regulate, regulate, regulate is their ethos.
dearieme - I remember Bill & Ben and Little Weed quite well, Starmer could audition for any of the roles, although he is a little dull for lively young minds.
Blimey.
And every one of those will be generously staffed, and all those staff will have assistants, administrators, offices, laptops, car allowances, inflation-proof pensions, and all the rest of it.
No wonder we're broke.
Starmer and Reeves go to the Regulators to ask for advice on how to grow the economy. Make more regulations, is their reply.
Peter - yes, sinecures for the righteous.
Tammly - and being Starmer and Reeves they follow the advice.
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