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There is an ocean difference between political philosophy governments on both sides of the Atlantic. But with one policy dimension, the United States and the United States are in line: the desire to yell at business removal. The task is immense with the rules and regulators that have been dealing with in the last 50 years.
In addition, similarities end. In the United States, the urge to deregulation is an article of the political faith. In the UK, this is a political need born of poor growth. This difference mirrors in very different ways of solving deregulation: how best to dismantle the high Babel regulatory tower raised brick brick over many decades?
The instincts of the new American administration should resolve the regulatory tower to the ground and only then to return on the basis of needs (or needs-muus). Design, this burned access-earth provides a change of system in culture and practice. Eliminates dead regulatory overhead costs with the risk of origin.
This is to the Great, in contrast to the access of the Government of the United Kingdom so far. This began with the creation of a new regulatory office. No one would discuss with the principle of regulatory innovations. But to believe that the solution to the regulation proliferation is to create a new regulatory agency logic that defies gravity.
At the end of last year, Sir Keira Starmer Government began to pray to regulators to give priority to grow. But as long as these bodies have a legal term whose main concern is risk, not growth, this is a cheap conversation.
At the end of last year, regulators were requested for voluntary victims from their ruling books. Incredibly, the turkeys did not welcome the news of Christmas. This was followed by the dear letters “Dear Santa Claus”, with negligible probably effects on growth. Kazan, the Government recently turned to the Soprano style tactics with a ride Ejection of the jurisdiction of the competition and the market.
This messy, piece approach will not make a permanent change. Diminacating bricks by high tower bricks cannot transfer regulatory culture and practice. The first law of thermodynamics is applied to regulation as well as energy: one regulatory brick was soon removed than the other replaced.
Indeed, this has been the experience of the Government of the UK so far. In the midst of deregulation rhetoric, new regulatory bricks were placed in the wall, some by design (such as the Law on Employment Rights) and others in response to public noise (such as the Oasis ticket sale). This noise will not diminish. And as self -sacrificing champions of working people, ministers will not be able to resist him.
The UK for March is scheduled for a regulatory action plan. Like his growth plan, this has all the realization of Sekspir’s tragedy: sound and anger signify nothing – or to respond to the case. Of course, the selective pruning strategy would quickly be flooded with regulatory growth. By drawing a list from the American book, however, it may be a systemic shift in regulatory cultures and practice.
In the UK, no more than 90 different regulators need, some overlap, employing thousands of people with regular books on millions of pages. The government should commit at least halve this number, with an equivalent decrease in the budget. As the treasury knows well, there is nothing like the limit of costs to change business models and cultures.
If the growth will receive equal billing in regulatory priorities, then a double legal term will be required. Since greater growth requires greater risk download, the new statute should clearly determine the Government tolerance for consumer loss. This is a social choice that only politicians can do – and then take responsibility when loss and public noise increase. This leaves regulators unlimited to act in accordance with this term.
And the best way to limit consumers losses is strong incentives to the very top of regulated organizations. The regulatory regime focused on the sanctions for the main executives (not for the regulator), including release in the event of failure, would do so. These incentives then cascades of the organization, reducing the need for expensive compliance at all levels of the pyramid.
Furthermore, Professor Andrew Loa’s work showed that artificial intelligence can be used to recognize overlap and inconsistencies in complex legal and regulatory rules. Ai could thus provide a cheap and effective tool for simplifying the right books and automation of compliance – this could dramatically lower bureaucratic loads.
The deregulation was advocated by every government in a living memory. They failed for the same reason that they are risking that they do not succeed in the strategy and idiosyncratius harmony of brick. The UK Chancellor says he wants to strengthen animal spirits in British companies, Trump’s style. The adoption of the American deregulation philosophy of forgiveness, not permissions, offers the best chances for it.
