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You hope that after a few weeks, watching that the hit of the Elon Musk composition rampant through the American federal bureaucracy, people could swallow that his “efficiency” was not fully advertised.
However, instead of the Trump administration, the administration is considered a caution, the cult of worshiping deregulation as a necessary good thing has gained an upsetting number of global followers. When France suddenly pushes the EU for “Massive regulatory pause” You know things are not normal. But this is in the UK, where the usual genuflexia to the United States is further persistent despite the wonderful various political cultures and administrative systems, where true believers can be found.
The chemical Badenoch, leader of the Conservative Party, said bizarrely this week that Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) I didn’t go far enough. At the end of Trump’s first week, Simon Case, a former head of state service in the UK, wrote wonderful From the “extreme transparency” of the US facility on efficiency and said he could provide a global model for the inventor of the Government. Given the damage that Musk breaks through day by day, this argument is already very old very bad.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is far less extreme and fortunately he did not cite Trump as inspiration, although he did bring out a deregulation During his first call with the US president. But his government still showed some disturbing tendencies in that direction. By transcending a long and commendable commitment to Labourd to facilitate the construction and planning of infrastructure, they say ministers and Writings Now routinely full of general calls against exaggerated rules.
You can consider all this a standard empty rhetoric of Pro-Business, but it seems dangerous at a time of such deregulation destructiveness to give the cult space. You can be sure that is not in The manifesto of choiceWhat is, in addition to planning questions He pulls away quickly.
If the Government apparently desperately desperately changes the political narrative will be grabbed on any idea marked as a deregulation, it could do this serious damage. Throwing around to find the economic model of the workforce, he obviously did not think of when in opposition, Chancellor Rachel Reeves called in the UK last month and asked them for their ideas about growth. The government then thrown out Chairman of the Competition and Market Directorate (CMA) because he is not eager to approve of merging.
CMA has long been criticized by large companies, especially in technology, for blocking the download and too long for decisions. You can now discuss the action of competition policy in the UK, both in the process and in the outcome. But it is worried that the Government seems to identify the interests of large companies as identical to promoting growth.
Unlike the standard of products or green regulations, competition policy is not only a matter of protecting the interests of consumer or environment compared to those companies. The unregulated monopoly produces great profit for monopolists, but traditionally does not produce growth or innovation.
If the economy of the technological industry means that the compromise between the restriction of market domination and growth is now outdated, we should hear the reasons why. If your departure from American economic history is favorable to watch a few weeks of Trumpon deregulation, and neglecting more than a century of antitrustovsky, you do it wrong.
Here, of course, is a huge irony for the UK. The rules that affect companies are not written solely on a whimsical controller. Many facilitate growth, and are created and sometimes companies themselves. For example, the use of a 20 -foot shipping container that revolutionized the world’s goods trade has largely expanded after global size standards have been officially adopted.
As is happening, the UK has started an experiment of radical deregulation in the last five years, renouncing the official rules that have been largely developed in cooperation with companies. The system was an EU market and the Customs Union, and the experiment was called Brexit. It was based on direct fabrications on EU regulations -bailed bananas and the like, and perishes, charge perhaps 5 percent of GDP. If the Government wants a growth model, ironic, re -joining EU regulatory superstars here, and I still have to see any convincing argument that it will be beyond the EU AI regulatory framework will exceed the benefits. The rejection of the Government to properly discuss the issue shows that it is not serious enough in terms of growth.
There is a measured, controversial discussion of good and poor regulation. Taking inspiration from male, whose method of simplification Pretty literally “Ctrl-F [thing I don’t like]-Select-delete, ”is not it. Working all big companies tell you that doesn’t it. Reckless Crusade Against Regulation- Using Holder Metaphors such as “bureaucratic” and “draft” is always a warning signal- can eventually create a huge damage, and the rules or abolition of the rules in a hurry to fulfill the political imperative is a sure-fiery way to misunderstand .
