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No, a system where the law is changed just so that we're forced to buy some new thing? Better off out really, aren't we?ħ. The big light bulb companies had developed CFLs (disclosure, I supplied the industry for many years with a vital ingredient, but halide bulbs, not CFLs) and they wanted to make sure that people bought them. The real reason for this was producer power. You just have to say they're for commercial, not domestic, use. Because of course you can still go and buy all the incandescents you like. Incandescent bulbs have been phased out in stages in the UK since 2009 following European regulations. Something else that could now make a return is the incandescent lightbulb. And no, this is not the way to create ever higher living standards through that constant process of innovation. Now do you see the problem? It's now illegal to innovate with other cultivars in the European market. The EU said it's illegal to sell anything other than Class 1 for direct human consumption on pain of a 6 month jail sentence or and a £5,000 fine.

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They did not, as UK law would, just say that 'If you call it Class 1 then it must be free of abnormal curvature.' No, no, don't be silly. Which cultivar should that be? Maybe a bendy one? Who knows, maybe there will be a craze for bendy bananas? Or perhaps one of the other 80 odd cultivars will become fashionable, one that happens to be naturally curved? We're really pretty sure that the current Cavendish clones are going to have to be replaced, as the Gros Michel was before it, as those clones succumb to the thing that usually gets all clones, a microbe that they're not resistant to. It doesn't say anything at all about what you can do with bendy bananas. The industry definition says that Class 1 bananas are free of abnormal curvature. The EU then said, well, let's have some banana regulations, we'll take the industry one and why not? And that's where it then went wrong. And that definition included free from abnormal curvature and all the rest. Growers, wholesalers and retailers need to have the same definition of what is a Class 1 banana for example. As is common in all industries (I've even written such an industry standard myself) there's a certain shorthand for how things should be.

This idea comes from the industry itself. Because it is that which prevents innovation, on the very simple basis that it leaves no space for people to innovate into.Ī 1994 EU regulation specified that bananas must be 'free from abnormal curvature.' What we don't want is rigid descriptions of the current state of play then ensconced in law. Don't defraud people, don't poison them and so on. Regulation of products, of services, should simply be along the old Common Law lines. Well, frees us assuming that our now sovereign rulers go through the process of actually clearing up the statute book in the manner that it ought to be cleaned up. The Mail has a list of things which Brexit now frees us from. Which is at complete variance with what we actually want to be happening in the world which is that continual and continuous process of innovation which makes us all richer. It is a method of setting the world in aspic. This is this and no other version should or can be allowed. The basic insight being that the EU system of regulation tries to nail everything down. As are those incandescent light bulbs and also the so far, at least as much as I know, unmade tomato marmalade.

However, this is actually an important insight into just what is wrong with the basic approach of the EU to how the world should be ordered. To worry about the European Union's laws on bendy bananas might sound like a rather trivial thing to be doing.

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