The Secretary of State for Raw Sewage is responsible for Environment, Food, Rural Affairs, Catteries and Kennels, and while they didn’t alter the acronym to DEFRACK to reflect the changes, all of their responsibilities have been degraded throughout this century by DEFRA's indefensible choices.
What DE FRACK is going on?
- I'm concerned that DEFRA believe that institutional arrogance transcends and supersedes any individual’s right to run their own businesses.
- Our sector is made up of individual people running private businesses and I’m concerned that what DEFRA have done is not “like” the imposition of autocracy it's a text book case of government abuse and tyranny.
- I can’t believe that a government department thought that it was free to legislate away personal freedoms and felt justified in the imposition of uniformity and able to determine the terms and conditions of an entire industry without consulting a single representative working in this sector.
- DEFRA set itself up to approve or disapprove every conceivable aspect of our businesses but hadn’t got a clue what they were doing and made no attempt to identify consequences or weigh up any possible impacts.
- DEFRA are trying to deflect from the fact that our regulations were written by a misinformed, uninformed and ill-informed government department who spent the following three years avoiding responsibility for writing legislation that was never even proof-read.
- DEFRA have fallen short of every stated objective and I’m concerned that bureaucrats judge themselves by different standards because after imposing a catastrophic novella of nonsense on this sector, no one has been fired, no apologies issued and the regulations have not been revoked.
- I’m concerned that in the 4th year, the closest DEFRA have come to admitting that they inflicted the most half-baked and damaging regulations on any industry other than farming and clean water is referring to their incompetence and negligence as having produced “unintended consequences”.
- I’m concerned that DEFRA are using the concept of “unintended consequences” as a deflection.
- DEFRA knew what the intended consequences were when they wrote the regulations - but they confused their goals by writing into the regulations a rating system that doesn’t function and forced the regulations to match the rating system - And now DEFRA are using “unintended consequences” as a euphemism to avoid paying compensation, addressing the damage they inflicted and trying to deflect from their absolute failure to deliver on any objective.
- DEFRA have replaced our ability to provide a wonderful service for our guests with a worthless bureaucratic quagmire based on the same wasteful and inefficient practices that all government departments represent and all businesses work to prevent.
- I am concerned that individual officers are being protected by an institution who have driven a number of community based businesses into the ground and forced people with decades of experience and expertise to leave our industry without paying any price.
- I am concerned that someone as inept as Dr Thérèse Coffey could be appointed as the Secretary of State for Raw Sewage, who was meant to regularly review policies and even in her cabinet position for over a year was not even aware or didn't care about what her current department has done to our sector.