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Legislation – legislation – legislation There’s another of Patrick Crozier’s “world in a grain of sand” pieces (the sand this time being the use of a portable phone while driving a car) over at UKTransport today, this time about the assumptions, all of them mistaken, underlying the epidemic of legislation that is now sweeping the hitherto civilised world. These assumptions are:
· That if something nasty is happening then the government should do something about it
· That that something is new legislation
· That legislation will be enforced
· That enforcement will be effective
· That legislation will have no adverse side effects.
I realise this is not exactly original stuff. But some things must be said again and again. And when someone else says them well, I’ll link to them, and then say them again for good measure. Copy and paste at will.
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