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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
I think that one issue with EU rules is how countries interpret and implement them. Our system tends to take the rules as "law" and forces obedience. Other countries take them as guidelines to be generally followed with a good pinch of common sense unless it applies to "foreigners" when for some reason whole layers of bureaucracy is involved.
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It’s called “gold plating” and our civil service is exceptionally good at it. Those of them who rue the day we voted to leave the EU might find it useful to ponder the extent to which the culture they work in, and perpetuate, helped bring it about.