We already did with the animal welfare. We are still up on top now, compared to other countries, including those in the EU, with welfare for animals. We started that way of thinking by changing our own laws before the EU was a twinkle in the eye, so I think it's a fair assumption to say we didn't need the EU to do that.
How long did it take the EEC/EC/EU to come up with it then?
But the U.K. in cooperation with other countries could have achieved the same thing. Although what you call excessive in this respect is often a matter of opinion. But the EU still cannot bring in a law which has any effect in non-EU contries.
But nations simply coming to agreements, without the EU, could have done. Just like the U.K. government and the new Irish government did almost a century ago.
Again, countries working together could have done so without the EU expense and bureaucracy. And look at the effect that the most restrictive copyright laws had.
No paperwork? How about the extensive VAT reporting which is demanded for EU trade?
Give a few decades, and the EU might just be the cause of World War III.
How about everything that the U.K. did up until 1972?
The world was a better place before they introduced cheap mobile phone calls. Nothing worse than being on holiday and some shrieking harpy is on the phone near you telling her friend back home how drunk she got last night.
Come on John, being a bit flippant now aren't ya? How about any thoughts on the lists we've already given back to you on your request, instead of just asking for endless more lists? Please debate, properly!
Indeed, it's hardly earth-shattering considering that the majority of people didn't even have mobile phones until very recent times, and the costs of using them had already been coming down considerably.
That's for sure. Mobile phones have plenty of good uses and have undoubtedly been life-savers, but compared to the cost of everything else these days, the calls are really too cheap in my opinion, and that's what's encouraged the indiscriminate use of them anywhere and everywhere. And because of that, the ridiculous attachment that some people seem to have to them even when supposedly performing other tasks has become worrying, such as the case I just mentioned elsewhere in which I nearly flattened some guy in a Raley's parking lot a few weeks ago because he was so intent on staring at his stupid cellphone that he just walked out right in front of me. Specifying a minimum per-minute call charge and outlawing unlimited calling plans would actually have been doing the world a favor!
Who says they were ovecharging their customers? Don't you think a private company has every right to charge whatever it thinks the market will bear for its services?
Let's pick just one thing related to the environment to be going on with then: The Clean Air Act 1956.
An alternative view is always welcome, however your final sentence does suggest that you will soon be abusing folk the same way that JohnD and Himaginn do to get your socialist point across I don't really read newspapers as they are cheap rags... Even the Morning Star
Perhaps you could elucidate as to why you feel that way, and why you feel that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
