You get no kudos for abolishing silly, trivial regulations which it would have been easy to dump years ago.
Business groups met the announcement with scepticism, calling on the Government to tackle the bigger regulatory burdens rather than tinkering with less important rules.One said
It is evident that hefty regulatory changes in pensions, flexible working and maternity and paternity are still going to hit small firms hard.That's exactly it. The smug Cable wants credit for doing something trivial, while other measures are making business regulation more burdensome.
Some of these regulation cuts being announced today will have no tangible impact on small firms at all as they are outdated and unused anyway.
Do ministers really believe this announcement makes a significant difference to business - a worrying misunderstanding? Or is this guff announcement pure cynicism?
Anyway, from the tone of their puffery it seems this is the best they can do. Which makes them deregulation failures.
2 comments:
"Or is this guff announcement pure cynicism?"
We are bound to assume it is cynicism and that's a real problem. There's no trust left and whose fault is that?
They think they have huge reserves of credibility to draw on (first mistake) and that they can easily be replenished (very odd misunderstanding).
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