Regulation or deregulation?
Neither works if the writers are hoodwinked by ideology or lobbyists, too dimwitted to do the job, too inexperienced to foresee the problems or too zombified to react when everything goes wrong.
Water companies in the UK were sold off and deregulated.
And they are now responsible for massive and intentional pollution of our coast and rivers - but there is no legal recourse because pollution is legal and all of the necessary infrastructure investments that should have been spent on improving services was all syphoned off to pay dividends to shareholders.
Within living memory farming used organic fertilisers and was being drilled by a horse and plough and everything was harvested by hand.
Now because DEFRA regulates all aspects of farming, farmers are caught up in a country-wide mechanised chemical farming experiment which destroys soil life, poisons insects, people and plants - and DEFRA is fully committed to the death of our land and our ability to grow our own food long-term is being jeopardised by DEFRA's inability to react to science or inconvenient facts.
DEFRA should never have been involved in writing regulations for catteries or kennels
DEFRA wrote our sector’s entire regulatory framework on shaky foundations:
- The ridiculous assumption that there would be a competent licensing officer availabe in every local authority district.
- That someone with an NVQ was qualified or would have a basic level of literacy to apply any regulation consistently.
- That a licensing officer could come up with an appropriate rating for every business based on an unworkable rating system without making multiple blunders.
- That any mistakes could be rectified at the local level despite every local authority employing supervisors to misdirect, lie and undermine any complaint.