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One of the immediately likely things after the election is for Labour to rejoin various eurpean standards things, like on Chemicals, accepting the EU rules with
by ZeroGravitas 2y ago
One of the immediately likely things after the election is for Labour to rejoin various eurpean standards things, like on Chemicals, accepting the EU rules with no direct say in them, just like Norway and Switzerland.
> [Labour Chancellor] Reeves said she does not think “anyone voted Leave because they were not happy that chemicals regulations were the same across Europe”,
- robertlagrant 2y agoShe is correct. I really doubt anyone will care in practice, unless they're conditioned to care.
- rsynnott 2y agoThing is, the UK _was_ conditioned to care about this sort of thing, over a period of decades. Remember the bendy bananas? Basically since the UK joined, the UK's media engaged in a sustained campaign to convince people that EU regulations were unreasonable. The EC actually had a website for this at one point: https://web.archive.org/web/20200131192225/https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z-index/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200131192225/https://blogs.ec....
- Rinzler89 2y ago>Remember the bendy bananas? The WHAT?
- mmaniac 2y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromyth#Straight_bananas https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromyth#Straight_bananas
- fmajid 2y agoExcept much of the media in question are not the UK's media, being owned by a US citizen, Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch had to renounce his Australian citizenship as the US doesn't allow foreigners to own media like Fox there, but the UK doesn't have such basic precautions against foreign influence, and ends up with grotesque situations like Eugene Lebedev (now Lord Lebedev), heir of a KGB agent, owning a major newspaper, The Independent.