I'm nearly certain he believed/believes in the Britannia Unchained folks type nonsense. Brexit, then ECHR exit, deregulate like crazy and exploit everyone and their mum. So long as GDP goes up.

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tonyedgecombe an hour ago | parent | next [-]

He was just sore because the EU put limits on the energy consumption of vacuums.

	▲	KoolKat23 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Ironically they're lower powered than my Made-in-Germany Bosch.

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arethuza 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't think "Britannia Unchained" manages to achieve the level of nonsense.

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robtherobber 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Oh, it's even 'better' than that. To quote from an article in the Guardian:

It’s a short book but if you read it you’ll see that a decent editor could have got it down to one sentence. “When we seek to protect the vulnerable we limit the freedom of the rich and the privileged – and that is a disgrace.”

It’s a wretched read – a series of assertions and hunches freed from the chains of argument or evidence, with the intellectual rigour of a YouTube conspiracy rant. The prose occasionally soars to the level of clickbait, as in its most famous sentence: “The British are among the worst idlers in the world.” Most of its authors are now cabinet ministers in a government that no one would call exactly Stakhanovite.

	▲	tialaramex 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		To be fair they're ex cabinet ministers. The current shambles are Labour and that book was written by Tories. But you're correct that they weren't exactly Pick of the Bunch Tories, Liz Truss in particular has the unenviable distinction of having been Prime Minister for such a short period that a lettuce famously outlasted her.

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_joel 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not sure how enforced self-sanctions make GDP go up.

	▲	KoolKat23 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's where the exploitation comes in. You cut every cost so that the cost is lower to make up for it. Cut taxes, employee salaries, social welfare, pension, environmental protections, legal protections, net profits go up. After all more valueadd, and increased production is more important than the actual human beings this valueadd was originally intended to benefit.