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David Starkie's avatar

The bottle top directive, was it not adopted here after we left the EU?

I would also like to mention of how regulations especially impinge on old people. If you lack strength or have arthritic hands modern packaging is a nightmare. But no account of this is taken when designing these measures. Age discrimination? Oops, another regulation.

Ian Braithwaite's avatar

The insidious thing about bureaucracy is that it often proceeds in small steps, each one apparently rational and justified, yet after a sufficiently large number of these steps, the result is absurdity. The freedoms we enjoy are no longer our birthright, but those we are allowed to have.