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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
I expect the Brexit process to be defended in this thread but this is not its strongest defence. If one of the cited selling points of the Referendum 6.5 years ago was to remove red tape, then surely we at least knew what the red tape was that we were going to get rid of? If this was impeding the economy then it would seem sensible to remove it at the same time as we were busy erecting more red tape for exporters? Or at the very least, given Covid, to have a timetable for its removal?
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Your appeal to the date of the referendum is a deliberate obfuscation.
Regulatory change is something that couldn’t be planned in any serious way while the degree or ongoing alignment with the EU was unresolved. Don’t forget (I’m sure you haven’t really) that for 3 years the government was led by Theresa May who clearly wanted to retain as much alignment with the EU as she could get away with.
As for covid, well most politicians seem to accept that these are highly unusual times. Even the SNP accepts its own constitutional project must wait until some semblance of normality has returned. And once we get do get to it, it would be very tricky to deal with “regulations” in a single act of parliament. There are lots of different rules affecting lots of different things. Regulatory divergence from the EU is a project that will unfold organically over many, many years.