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I read this with boggling eyes. As a junior UK civil servant in the 90s, I was sent to Brussels with a single instruction: always insist on impact assessments! The British banged on about them at EVERY Council meeting. All EU policies MUST HAVE IMPACT ASSESSMENTS.https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/938340846293921793 …
This is literally like the Pope saying he's "not a fan" of prayer. The way the British were always posturing in Brussels about impact assessments, they've always been notorious for it! On their sodding "thorough prior appraisal" high horse - oh but he's "not a fan"?!pic.twitter.com/ENKUZsJlx3
My fingers still have the muscle memory from typing the briefings so often: "thorough prior appraisal" - "ex-ante evaluation" - "ex-post monitoring" - was all done anyway, UK was just virtue signalling back home, and now as we see it was do-as-we-say-not-as-we-do exceptionalism.
He's certainly earning his stripes.
"a few economic forecasts" - you haven't done many robust impact assessments I take it?
Now in fancy @lsebrexitvote blog form:http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2017/12/08/britains-insistence-on-impact-assessments-helped-wrap-brussels-in-red-tape/ …
Correct. Commission insiders watched in horror as a nimble institution was bureaucratised to near-death at the UK's behest. You can't even get coffee for a meeting now without filling in an online application two days in advance.
It often seemed to me like the UK was trying to throw a spanner into the EU's wheel in the hope that it would make the other countries realise they'd been too ambitious and roll it back to just free trade.
Every project I work on has risk assessments and impact assessments on every area of the job and it's intersecting areas outside the job. The thing is that's standard practice across most sectors isn't it? Even putting a ladder up needs assessments these days.
And the EU have been carrying them out, so has industry affected by this. Why aren't they doing it? The simple option of no deal requires it surely? Unless the planned outcome is not leaving.
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