DEFRA need address the unicorns, admit to the stupid and revoke the legislation.
One of the most interesting things said about trying to get bureaucrats to do their jobs is that you can’t get anywhere by telling them how they’d be rated by businesses or imagining how it should be, or telling them what they should do. But we’re now dealing with a department who imagined they could run a business, had no understanding of our sector and wrote legislation by imagining fictional problems and mixed them with unicorns and magical thinking. The results of which have been to raise our costs, distract an entire sector from their work and turn us all into a mirror image of the inefficient and pointless bureaucrats who wrote the legislation.
Sir Lindsay Hoyle and George Eustace both advised us on what we should do to save our industry … So, we did as we were advised and set up multiple points of contact. We’ve had direct talks … again and again … but nothing has changed because DEFRA refuse to recognise the mess they created.
DEFRA’s entire process of writing our regulations was so badly flawed that they endangered an entire sector of UK businesses essential for tourism.
Because:
- DEFRA had no knowledge of our sector and no contact with anyone in our sector.
- They took advice from the CSFG who have no representative from our sector on their board.
- DEFRA was so focussed on creating an unworkable rating system that they forgot that their primary goal was to produce legislation to safeguard animal welfare - not rewrite our terms and conditions or force immaterial standardisations, waste our time and reduce animal welfare.
No one who touched, read or contributed to any line of this legislation has a legitimate excuse and every person needs rooting out and they need to be disciplined and dismissed.
Because:
- The legislation is so bad and DEFRA officials were so incompetent that they are now too frightened to admit or fix their mistakes.
- DEFRA held multiple false beliefs about our sector and wrote legislation to deal with multiple imaginary problems that they invented.
- DEFRA appear to believe that the longer they drag it out, the less chance they’ll be held to account or be forced to revoke the legislation.
- DEFRA are willing to destroy more businesses so that the cabinet minister doesn’t find out he/she is responsible for the incompetence of the entire bureaucratic clown show.