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Re:UK to depart from GDPR by benwad on Friday March 12, 2021 @05:25AM (#26434118)
Lowering taxes, lowering regulatory and environmental standards, and undoing workers' rights legislation can all increase the wealth of those who are already wealthy. I'm not saying all of those things are in the pipeline, but they've all been proposed by pro-Brexit politicians (and this article is one example of lowering regulatory standards).
Re:UK to depart from GDPR by marcus_holmes on Friday March 12, 2021 @05:28AM (#26434146)
Privatising the health system is the elephant in the room that's been talked about a lot.
Re:UK to depart from GDPR by callamdelaney on Friday March 12, 2021 @05:56AM (#26434371)
The Conservatives aren't stupid enough to privatize the NHS. It's a straw man argument - the NHS, much like the EU, is irrationally loved by the common voter and only Labour can get away with privatizing it, having perpetuated the complete myth that they are in some way its defenders while, according to them, the evil conservatives always have some corrupt plan to sack it off.
Re:UK to depart from GDPR by gobsmacked on Friday March 12, 2021 @03:04PM (#26440252)
> lowering environmental standards

This is much talked about but so far I've only been seeing the opposite. Since brexit, the UK has so far banned fish trawling in the North sea, banned live export of animals, banned the import of fois gras, and created a much more environmentally friendly alternative to the EU's (absolutely atrocious) common agricultural policy.

> lowering regulatory standards

I'd argue that not all regulation is good regulation, e.g. the GDPR

> Lowering taxes

This is could feasibly happen and you could say it already is by looking at the way the tories have further rigged the housing market and stamp duty post-covid. But I fail to see what that has to do with the EU really. I don't know a lot on this subject though.

> undoing workers' rights legislation

I can see this one happening sadly. Am I not right in saying though that a lot of workers rights come from the judiciary, not the government? Example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56123668

Re:UK to depart from GDPR by Mauricebranagh on Friday March 12, 2021 @06:13AM (#26434493)
Oh and second amendment style gun rights too
Re:UK to depart from GDPR by bodelecta on Friday March 12, 2021 @11:09AM (#26437227)
Absolute nonsense. Only a few days ago it was the 25th anniversary of Dunblane, a massacre that will never be forgotten and out of which the snowdrop petition forced the government to have some of the strictest gun laws in the world. Who in the UK looks at the US and thinks "yes, we should have more guns"?
Re:UK to depart from GDPR by Mauricebranagh on Monday March 15, 2021 @07:22AM (#26464593)
A lot of the hardliner Brexiteers would go for it (an Englishman's home is his castle) an Farage actually mentioned it.

Brexiteers would see tony martin as a hero.

Re:UK to depart from GDPR by pjc50 on Friday March 12, 2021 @12:50PM (#26438578)
Not actually an EU competence. Brexit is irrelevant to gun law and some EU countries are fairly liberal.

(Is this another one of those issues where someone is in favour of Brexit because they think the EU prevents something that is nothing to do with them, because they've been lied to by the UK press again?)

Re:UK to depart from GDPR by dash2 on Friday March 12, 2021 @06:28AM (#26434597)
I find it very hard to believe that that would be a popular policy in the UK. Got evidence?
Re:UK to depart from GDPR by sofixa on Friday March 12, 2021 @08:10AM (#26435446)
Yeah, even policemen rarely have guns in the UK, allowing everyone to have one would be lunacy.
Re:UK to depart from GDPR by Mauricebranagh on Friday March 12, 2021 @08:40AM (#26435683)
You know we can own shotguns and full power rifles (303) in the UK.

Thankfully the armed police have very stringent training in the Uk.

Re:UK to depart from GDPR by sofixa on Friday March 12, 2021 @10:31AM (#26436845)
Yes, you can, but you can't buy them at Tesco with zero paperwork.
Re:UK to depart from GDPR by Izkata on Friday March 12, 2021 @03:21PM (#26440421)
Nor can you in the US (you need to apply for a permit and pass background checks), so not sure what your point is.
Re:UK to depart from GDPR by gadders on Friday March 12, 2021 @09:54AM (#26436424)
And even larger I think. A chap I spoke to at lunchtime has a .308 for deer hunting.

What we can't have is pistols, apart from 20 or so people in the Olympic pistol shooting teams.

Re:UK to depart from GDPR by Mauricebranagh on Friday March 12, 2021 @08:38AM (#26435659)
Farage mentioned it and decent proportion of Brexiteers would go for it.
Re:UK to depart from GDPR by gadders on Friday March 12, 2021 @09:53AM (#26436401)
I think there is a case to be made that not all regulations are good regulations, and the UK can perhaps move faster than the EU - for instance by permitting genetically edited (via CRISPR) food to be grown and sold.

Do you know what does help keep the wealthy wealthy? A ready supply of cheap labour from outside the UK.