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Right now small businesses in the UK that don't export at all have to comply with all EU rules. If the UK leaves then they won't. So the effective influence wi

by wmil 10y ago

Right now small businesses in the UK that don't export at all have to comply with all EU rules. If the UK leaves then they won't. So the effective influence will be greatly reduced.

YeGoblynQueenne 10y ago
Hurray! We will at last have our crooked cucumbers and carrots, that the EU has for so long cruelly deprived us of!
- internaut 10y ago
  And the straight bananas, don't forget about them. At last a free market where the curvature of the banana is subject to consumer choice. I myself prefer the straight banana for optimizing my fruit salad.
threeseed 10y ago
That's assuming that the UK doesn't establish similar rules. Many of the EU regulations are designed to help consumers e.g. data protection.
- wmil 10y ago
  They also push impossible energy efficiency standards for home appliances. So the EU bans toasters and kettles that work: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/eu-to-launch-kettle-and-toaster-crackdown-after-brexit-vote2/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/eu-to-launch-kett... Vacuum cleaners that work: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11047127/EU-rules-against-powerful-vacuum-cleaners-ban-best-models-Which-warns.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11047127... Some of the other bizarre rules... It's illegal for bottled water makers to claim it's effective against dehydration: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8897662/EU-bans-claim-that-water-can-prevent-dehydration.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8897662/... They tried to ban jugs of olive oil at restaurants: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10064787/EU-to-ban-olive-oil-jugs-from-restaurants.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10064787... A salmon smoker had to re-do all package to notify people that it contained fish: http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/05/03/476064362/backing-brexit-a-salmon-smokehouse-says-its-been-swimming-upstream http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/05/03/476064362/b... There's just a lot of bs. Also the common agriculture policy and common fishing policy haven't been great for the UK.
tonyedgecombe 10y ago
A lot of those rules came from the UK in the first place.

by wmil 10y ago

Right now small businesses in the UK that don't export at all have to comply with all EU rules. If the UK leaves then they won't. So the effective influence will be greatly reduced.

YeGoblynQueenne 10y ago

Hurray! We will at last have our crooked cucumbers and carrots, that the EU has for so long cruelly deprived us of!

internaut 10y ago
And the straight bananas, don't forget about them. At last a free market where the curvature of the banana is subject to consumer choice. I myself prefer the straight banana for optimizing my fruit salad.

threeseed 10y ago

That's assuming that the UK doesn't establish similar rules. Many of the EU regulations are designed to help consumers e.g. data protection.

wmil 10y ago
They also push impossible energy efficiency standards for home appliances. So the EU bans toasters and kettles that work: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/eu-to-launch-kettle-and-toaster-crackdown-after-brexit-vote2/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/10/eu-to-launch-kett... Vacuum cleaners that work: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11047127/EU-rules-against-powerful-vacuum-cleaners-ban-best-models-Which-warns.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/11047127... Some of the other bizarre rules... It's illegal for bottled water makers to claim it's effective against dehydration: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8897662/EU-bans-claim-that-water-can-prevent-dehydration.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8897662/... They tried to ban jugs of olive oil at restaurants: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10064787/EU-to-ban-olive-oil-jugs-from-restaurants.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10064787... A salmon smoker had to re-do all package to notify people that it contained fish: http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/05/03/476064362/backing-brexit-a-salmon-smokehouse-says-its-been-swimming-upstream http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/05/03/476064362/b... There's just a lot of bs. Also the common agriculture policy and common fishing policy haven't been great for the UK.

tonyedgecombe 10y ago

A lot of those rules came from the UK in the first place.