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| Christopher Booker |
«[F]rom people running every kind of small business, all reported the same thing: their lives were being made a nightmare by an explosion of dotty new rules and regulations, enforced with puritanical zeal by a new army of petty officials.»
«Many of these regulations claimed to be promoting seemingly worthy causes to which no one could object – healthy and safety, better hygiene, protection of the environment, caring for young and old. But there was a strange, pettifogging unreality about all this new legislation, which seemed to have little to do with the problems it was purporting to solve, only with increasing the powers of officialdom.»
«What also became apparent was a remarkable shift taking place in how most of our laws were made. No longer were they being debated and voted for in Parliament; instead they were being issued by officials as statutory instruments, administrative diktats. Our MPs, it emerged, had been handing over their law-making power to officials, through “enabling acts” – a process which began with the European Communities Act in 1972, designed to put the growing mass of EU legislation into UK law, but now being routinely extended.»
«The system damages all it touches, which is why it lands us with one disaster after another, from the pointless destruction of billions of fish to the shambles it has made of our rubbish collection; from the skewing of our energy policy in favour of useless windmills to the way our family courts have turned every principle of justice on its head to allow politically correct social workers to seize children from loving parents.»
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