The UK is Slipping Through Our Fingers

Rupert Lowe MP

We can all feel it. I know I can.

Our country slipping through our fingers. Not in one single catastrophic moment, but slowly, day by day, week by week, through so many small, but important, failures that add up to something that feels so much bigger and more permanent.

It fills me with such anger and depression. I’m just so very bored of it all. Borders non-existent. Illegal migration is the norm. Legal migration is out of control. Soaring tax. Debt is out of control. Criminals walk free. Victims are ignored. Communities changing beyond recognition.

Nothing works. Our country is ebbing away. Slowly, but faster all at the same time. Those who play by the rules are punished and those who don’t are rewarded. Those who are happy to be policed are policed, and those who aren’t, aren’t.

Ordinary taxpaying British men and women pushed to the back of the queue, again and again and again - replaced by indolent Brits, foreign scroungers or third world conmen.

All this doesn’t happen overnight. It’s like a drip on a rock. Constant and relentless. But eroding everything away underneath it.

I don’t have all the answers. Nobody does. But I do know that there is a route out of this. One route. None of this is irreversible. Not yet. Although we are getting closer. Do we continue down this depressing path of managed decline? Or do we insist that our country, and our people, deserve so much better than this steaming mess?

Serious times require serious people and serious times require serious action.

The Great Repeal Act.

Without that, all else fails. It is the only way. Our decline has been written into law, regulation by regulation, treaty by treaty. Layer upon layer of bureaucracy and ideology, none of it ever consented to by the people, but all of it suffocating so very tightly.

Too many laws, too much regulation. It must be torn away. One single sweeping act of Parliament to strike out the laws, regulations, and obligations that have so badly poisoned our country and our once-great way of life.

Clear away decades of failed policies, restore democratic control to Parliament, and allow us to govern once again in the national interest.

Finally, take back control. For good. We must rebuild on firmer ground. It’s the only way.

If we are bold enough, honest enough, and determined enough, we can stop our country slipping through our fingers.

We can Restore Britain. I promise you that.

© Rupert Lowe MP

Rupert Lowe is right about one thing. We have too many laws. Few understand or have any idea of the detail any more. Lawyers get rich interpreting them, and judges seem to produce judgements that are inconsistent at best. We are supposed to be well rid of the mountain of EU legislation but it has not gone away. The government is dragging us back up its foothills towards its summit. We need to start again, back to a simpler code of laws. Ancient societies did not have so many. And some lasted many hundreds of years. However, the parties on what is in theory ‘the right’, who could oppose this government, and bring about an overhaul of the laws, are fragmented. Unless they can find common ground and unite, they will struggle. The main personalities need to set their egos aside. That assumes they will get the chance under the despot who says he has 10 years, and may well make sure he has by some nefarious means.

An example of unmanageable legislation is Mifid 2, an EU law code introduced in 2017, approximately 1.3m paragraphs long and 10 years in the making. A speed reader would take a few years to read it. Even with AI text scanners how do you know there are no inconsistencies in such a vast law code? The law regulates the financial sector. So why should you care if you don’t work in the financial sector? Many more people now have a private DC pension following the rollout of automatic pension enrollment, between 2012 and 2018. Again, so what? If like the majority you tick the bx for default management, then charges apply to your fund. After Mifid 2 those charges increased. I am in receipt of a drawdown pension and was offered the choice of a 150% increase in charges, or a reduced level of service. I chose the latter. And just this week even that lower level charge is increasing again.

Most people have never heard of this law or the thousands of others that impact their lives. Multiply Mifid 2 1000 times across UK law and EU law. Then perhaps have a better idea why things are so expensive, whilst service is no better, and usually worse, and consider why Rupert is right on this subject, even if you don’t agree with his other views.

Peter Coglan

Its worth pointing out that Peter Coglan's first paragraph is spot on here - under Blair over 3.500 new laws were introduced and its gone careering on ever since.

A massive reduction in unnecessary laws would be hugely beneficial to the UK

Kevan James

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