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Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA 🗽 Profile picture
@SteveBakerFRSA
Sep 28, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
For people trying to understand what the row is this week over coronavirus law, please see the attached summary of procedure for delegated legislation, here:

parliament.uk/about/how/laws…

The problem is that the Government has been over-using the "rare" made affirmative procedure.
"Most SIs subject to the affirmative procedure are laid in the form of a draft SI. They are considered by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI)." ...
"The role of this committee is to scrutinise the SI to ensure it is legal and *does not go beyond the powers specified in the parent Act*." [emphasis mine]

The Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 is subject to JR, now at appeal:

hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-0…
See for example:

And do look at the excellent Coronavirus Statutory Instruments Dashboard from @HansardSociety - it is very much more interesting than it sounds!

hansardsociety.org.uk/publications/d…

And massive thanks to everyone at @HansardSociety for such hard work and a great tool.

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🇬🇧In negotiating this ‘reset’ in UK-EU relations, Keir Starmer has done exactly what he always intended: sat down on the EU’s side of the table and given them everything they wanted.

A thread… 👇

❌️This so-called “reset” isn’t diplomacy—it’s surrender. Sold as pragmatism, in reality it is a clear infraction of Britain’s interests and a betrayal of the referendum result.

👎The worst example? SPS alignment. Instead of mutual recognition like the EU-New Zealand deal, Starmer has locked us into the EU’s regulatory framework indefinitely—with no voice and no veto.
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❓How do dating apps change the early stages of relationships?
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😳Preparing to speak on Bitcoin later for @axiombtc, I found this note I wrote for @bankofengland almost ten years ago.

❓What’s changed? More QE…

🧵Five areas for serious thought

cobdencentre.org/2015/09/one-ba…
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Inadequate risk modelling follows as a consequence of the moral hazard implicit in the system.

VAR-based risk models have repeatedly been shown inadequate yet they legitimize under-provisioning for losses, thus increasing risk and inflating profits.

Leverage ratio regulation suffers from the epistemological problem of the social sciences so it is likely to fail.

The accounting provisions of IFRS in relation to mark-to-market and loan losses further promote risk-taking and instability. [I believe this phenomenon has been improved.]

Basel capital adequacy rules failed in the past and will fail again.

Authors: Kevin Dowd, Gordon Kerr, John Butler.
2️⃣Capital-based macroeconomics and the boom-bust cycle

CPI targeting is dangerously misplaced: consumer prices are the final signal at the end of a long production chain.

Monetary fluctuations have material effects on the real structure of prices and capital. Prices become detached from underlying realities such as resource availability, technology and consumer preferences.

Interest rate manipulation by authority discoordinates the economy in time by sending false signals about preferences for saving, borrowing, consumption and investment.

Authors: Jesús Huerta de Soto, Detlev Schlichter, John Butler, Roger Garrison, Kevin Dowd, Mises, Hayek, Steve Horwitz.
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Jan 22
📻Shortly, I will be on @TimesRadio to discuss Net Zero: times.radio

🧵References

📢My proposed strategy:

conservativehome.com/2022/02/23/ste…
🇬🇧On the available data, UK emissions are 0.81% of the global total

ourworldindata.org/co2-and-greenh…Image
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📈Between 2022 and 2023, total UK CO2 emissions were less than China’s annual increase: 305 million tonnes vs 550 million tonnes

Note ours decreased

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🥀 What’s happening is the slow collapse of the post war social democratic system under the weight of state intervention, tax, debt and currency debasement.

💡Get the charts:

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🇬🇧Yesterday was the 4th anniversary of the UK leaving the EU.

🌎Brexit has allowed us to unlock our international trade potential meaning that #Wycombe, #Bucks, #NI, and the rest of the UK have easier access to global trade.
👇Take CPTPP, for example, which I long advocated for the UK to join.

📊When the UK fully enters it later this year, our membership will deliver lower tariffs, easier connections, and better trade.

👏We will be the first European country to join #CPTPP.

🗣️I held a debate in Parliament on CPTPP in 2021.

“CPTPP can provide a better standard of living for people in the UK & across the original member countries. It can deliver free trade plus self-government in this great age of interventionism.”

hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2021-0…
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