Ok, so it's not been going so well. But this really is a game changer.
The Daily Express, along with other internationally regarded journals like The Sun, asked it's expert readership of business leaders, lawyers and critical thinkers to help out Jacob Rees-Mogg in coming up with brexit benefits. (J R-M already knew what they were, obviously, because he campaigned for them, but he just wanted to see if Express readers are thinking the same way as he was, so he kept them quiet until the postcards came flooding in).
Barry and Doreen got some of neighbours in The Close round for a coffee morning and a think tank. (The nice English people, not the tenants obviously.)
Here are the nine benefits of brexit from the Daily Express itself:
- Encourage fracking, shortcut rules on planning consultation via emergency act.
- Abolish the EU regulations that restrict vacuum cleaner power to 1400 watts.
- Remove precautionary principle restrictions (for instance) on early use of experimental treatments for seriously ill patients and GM crops.
- Abolish rules around the size of vans that need an operator's licence.
- Abolish EU limits on electrical power levels of electrically assisted pedal cycles.
- Allow certain medical professionals, such as pharmacists and paramedics, to qualify in three years.
- Remove requirements for agency workers to have all the attributes of a permanent employee.
- Simplify the calculation of holiday pay (eg 12.07 percent of pay) to make it easier for businesses to operate.
- Reduce requirements for businesses to conduct fixed wire testing and portable application testing.
(There aren't ten. That's not because Doreen and Barry couldn't come up with a tenth one. It's because only foreigners do things in multiples of ten.)
I clicked so you don't have to, I really don't recommend it.
www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1618395/Brexit-news-Boris-Johnson-2000-ideas-Jacob-Rees-Mogg-suggestions-EU-rules-update