Britishness

Tory MP Boris Johnson leverer sedvanlig en treffende kommentar om livet i det britiske parliamentet. Denne gang om Labours pågående reguleringskåthet - med fokus på subsidiering av britisk film basert på et poengsystem for “britishness”. Så dement at bare EU kan ha vært involvert. Kostelig!

“With 15 new regulations coming out of Westminster every week it is no wonder that sometimes we in the Opposition give way to the sin of despair. Sometimes we just slump back on the green benches and watch as Labour blizzards the landscape with legislation, like some out-of-control alpine snow machine. Sometimes we shut our eyes, unable to do anything to stop the avalanche of paper; and sometimes we have a peek, and we actually read something that has just been adopted by our rulers, and we feel we are in danger of going mad.

It must have been about 10pm on Monday when I was waiting to vote and someone gave me a copy of a Labour-generated regulation only hours old. It described a new definition of a “British film”, and I could feel I was about to slip the guy-ropes of reality. Take all the political correctness of the Government; add the pernicketiness of Gordon Brown; throw in the sheer lunacy of the European Commission – and you begin to understand.”

 Les hele her.