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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Yeah it's a stupid law and they were told it wouldn't work by industry experts. But the politicians that were in power when all this was first been decided were Conservatives and therefore arrogant and of the opinion that if they don't like something, it's realities responsibility to reconfigure itself.

Then Labour got in and for some reason implemented the stupid law anyway despite having heard none of the consultations, and of course now it turns out that the consultations told them not to do it. Now I'm sure the industry experts would have been ignored anyway but Labour look really daft now.

They have basically accepted that this law is unworkable and is basically going to be ignored by everyone, but they still have to go through all of the pantomime of trying to enforce it. I'm sure eventually they'll quietly kill it because the whole thing has been such an embarrassment for them.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think it's well established by now that this bunch of Labour politicians too are "arrogant and of the opinion that if they don’t like something, it’s realities responsibility to reconfigure itself".

That would amongst other things neatly explain why they went around and implemented the stupid law.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago

It also doesn't help that they're being advised by people who don't understand the world anymore and who's last real contribution was probably in the 1970s. The fact that they can't even capitalise on the fact that Boris Johnson has been found guilty of misappropriation of government funds is just ridiculous and shows how incompetent they are as politicians.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah it’s a stupid law and they were told it wouldn’t work by industry experts.

You mean lobbyists?

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

were Conservatives and therefore arrogant and of the opinion that if they don’t like something, it’s realities responsibility to reconfigure itself.

Which is exactly what they have done with tariffs in the US.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Th US has taken it to step further. Somehow they've managed to convince a significant junk of the population that a tariff is not a tax, and that the tariff is paid by the importing country, even though that's not how tariffs work. They don't require reality to actually do anything, they just require the populace to be mind numbingly stupid. Fortunately, they are.

It's pretty ironic, the United States was founded on the back of unfair taxation, and yet financial literacy is probably lower in the US than it is in any other country in the world.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I remind people as much as possible that it is essentially a federal sales tax.