Reasonable Free Trade requirements or half baked interfering claptrap?

So Blair wants to take on EU inspired red tape, the increasing of which is apparently a popular pastime with local civil service types. Nice try Tony, and very welcome indeed. We don’t like red tape over here on The England Project. However, I have a better idea.

You see, I’ve been thinking about this red tape stuff and this EU regulation business and I’m wondering just how much of it is to do with free trade (you know, common actual quality requirements and the like) and how much of it is really, well, interfering and burdensome rubbish. So, I’ve devised a test called …..erm….. The England Project Regulation Standard Test.

This is how it goes.

Companies that do not trade with the EU (perhaps ones with only local markets and the like) should be studied. If they are subjected to any EU regulation then those regulations fail The England Project Regulation Standard Test and should be immediately discarded as interfering claptrap. After all, if these companies don’t trade with the EU what business has the EU of imposing business regulations on them?