Regulatory independence (inc on immigration) is the one unqualified benefit of Brexit, bought at a cost in trade, rights and investment. So this might be a good thing. twitter.com/TheScotsman/st…
The problems are
(1) does the British state have capacity to make all these judgements consistently better than the better-resourced EU (maybe)
(2) does the public like the idea of lower regulation on chemicals (doubt it)
(3) do companies want to have two processes, one for
the UK market with one range of chemicals and one for the EU market with a different range (almost certainly not, so an EU ban is an effective UK ban, but without a say for the UK.
I suspect a lot of Brexiteers have in their heads that the UK is just in some hand-wavy way
better at this than the Europeans, or ready to take a risk that will pay off. There’s certainly not much more democracy in obscure regulatory decisions shifting from Brussels to London.
So even where Brexit is working as promised, the question is #WasItWorthIt.
Originally posted as a thread of 5 tweets on Twitter on 4 August 2022. View the original thread.