Toxic sofas are a secret scandal

Re:Toxic sofas are a secret scandal by busterarm on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:16PM (#22424981)

I mean, look at how they framed the article...that this is a scandal because of Brexit...because Brexit is designed to hide corruption.

Even though the wheels started turning on all of this a few years ago. Even though the EU themselves only banned things in the last year.

Rather than jumping into the actual story, they used it to push an entirely unrelated political narrative. Worse still, a lot of folks are going to see those first two paragraphs and not read the rest of the article.

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Re:Toxic sofas are a secret scandal by sofarfromhome on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:24PM (#22425073)

There is probably some truth though that government is to a degree hoping that Brexit will sort out the mess that is the UK's furniture regulations, i.e. that the officials concerned can cover their backs by allowing industry to replace the regs with codes of practice that will they hope keep flame retardant levels up - something that would have been harder to do in the EU.

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Re:Toxic sofas are a secret scandal by busterarm on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:25PM (#22426324)

I could see that being the case, but that's not a conjecture that I would lead my story with.

That kind of journalism is really divisive and irresponsible, IMO.

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