Thread by @TrialByTruth

We are in thrall to tribal politics and being told to trust promises that largely have not been delivered

https://twitter.com/TimesRadio/status/1621119746480431104

If however, rushed regulatory divergence is argued to be the answer, we must ask more of the hard questions. Do farmers and the country gain from the standards race to the bottom?

https://twitter.com/GeorgePeretzKC/status/1590650811704410113?s=20

Who would buy our products? What harm might they do? How do we make standards clear for future trade deals where in flux?

Just a few questions lined to the #REUL. Mirrored by @DavidHenigUK

https://twitter.com/DavidHenigUK/status/1533386370512723968?s=20

@DavidHenigUK Not in the least averse to some simplification, but that is not what we currently have in prospect

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1607870173633028097?s=20

@DavidHenigUK Similar from a trade compliance specialist who kindly cast their eye over my quoted #REUL thread

https://twitter.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1616145459256385537?s=20

This long thread of threads

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1607833256170332161?s=20

With this summary on content

https://twitter.com/PippaMusgrave1/status/1616171935368454146?s=20

*linked to

On banking deregulation from an expert

https://twitter.com/Williamw1/status/1567110780675399680?s=20

More from David Henig. But you all know this. When you look for any product or service you look for some signs it is decent and above board, ideally signed off by some kind of standards body

Unless cheapest is all you can afford. You bear all the risk

https://twitter.com/DavidHenigUK/status/1576964431367794690?s=20

Now consider the same in this context from Director of the Hansard Society quoting an article on it. It is not just some iffy products if folk cut corners

It is components for machines,
chemicals, energy supply, food, medicines, plus worker rights

https://twitter.com/RuthFox01/status/1606317197667618817?s=20

Of course ministers can decide all it is too much risk and make minimal changes, but where then is the dramatic benefit?

Go big, suck it and see, like we did with Brexit. Fast short term gain for some, huge impacts that surface slowly due to the lack of regulatory oversight

The bottom line is uncertainty

https://twitter.com/sarahoconnor_/status/1613588384777392128?s=20

The appetite for which has been hugely high with eyes on this big deregulatory prize. Why else do you think they rushed you past all the boring pre-Brexit details?

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1607153059829792769?s=20

There's also the small matter of another treaty we could breach

The Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) if divergence is too sharp and affords unfair advantages. That is a fluid and negotiated judgement call

https://twitter.com/StevePeers/status/1572943929250836481?s=20

But the country was promised government would uphold our standards. Something had to give. Will it be government in the face of these big contradictions?

The EU review of our plans for data protection divergence did not seem especially promising

One of my specialist subjects

https://twitter.com/TrialByTruth/status/1593057566728531968?s=20

Perhaps fuel for Mr Frost's big meltdown a few days ago about the 'surrender bill', addressed here by one of our veteran diplomats

https://twitter.com/alexhallhall/status/1614260279499423744?s=20

Or perhaps he has other issues as a new Trustee for the Global Warming Policy Foundation?

https://twitter.com/OldDitch/status/1595061744921182210?s=20

The feeling abides that interests are too tangled and there is too little time and too little focus on broad welfare for our country

https://twitter.com/PJTheEconomist/status/1593219520713588737?s=20

*all of it

Like this leaver with a decent and deep grasp of complexity, who signed up for beneficial change, not ideological chaos

https://twitter.com/TheScepticIsle/status/1615759775903383553?s=20

Here it is in blog form if interested

https://twitter.com/TheScepticIsle/status/1615782645824393216?s=20

Sometimes it isn't project fear or woke snowflakes, sometimes it is a wildfire not a cosy bonfire

The means to understand is the useful scrutiny and some of the missing transparency about realistic impacts for the country