Britain has gone from a nation with few laws, but are broadly obeyed to one with many laws that are routinely broken out of necessity.Well done, New Labour. You've managed the impossible. By trying to micromanage everything down to and including their bowel movements, you've destroyed the British people's respect for the law.
Update: Now even blowing your nose is a crime.
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It must be bad if an attorney like Mr Mount feels that way.
I hate to see England deteriorating into Airstrip One, or more like the dysfunctional model of utopia in "Brazil".
The nasty little tentacles of an overbearing governance are reaching into my little corner of the world in what I used to call the Free South, recently the wife (a realtor) contacted the power company to turn on the juice at a house that needed an inspection and appraisal.
The power company told her that any house that had been shut off from power for more than 30 days had to be inspected by the official city person that handles such matters and be proclaimed electrifiable by that city official.
Wife goes to city, pays $35 inspection fee, city dispatches official, official calls wife, says "A-OK", wife calls power company, power company says; "No no no" we have to have it in writing.
Wife goes back to same official, official writes some sort of gibberish, gibberish is presented to power company which quickly dismisses as not having the right verbage. Back to the city for correct wording, and finally power goes on.
You might want to blame the power company at this point, but I suspect they've had difficulties with our fair city before and now enjoy making things as difficult as possible as the only weapon in their arsenal.
The last time I did that run back and forth was in my last semester in college (the state run variety) trying to get the proper signature from an "advisor" on my 27B/6 form.
In contrast when I first worked over my old homestead here in the late 1980s, there was one city inspector that was very accessible and when you called to ask if he needed to come take a look at the electrics he would ask; "Did the power company think it was ok? Well that sounds fine then".
Sorry for the rant, this sort of thing is a sore spot, particularly when revenue collection is disguised as public service.
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