DEFRA: The acronym tells us everything - why nothing they did can be defended and nothing had the intended effect.
The fundamental question is how did a department created to oversee the environment, food and rural affairs end up writing stupid, unnecessary and incomprehensible regulations for a sector providing boarding for cats in the UK tourism supply chain?
Fabulous answer: No one else wanted the job.
But why did they replace every regulation with something worse and less comprehensible or applicable?
DEFRA’s entire regulatory framework is based on the ludicrous fantasy that our industry and everyone in it are routinely abusing domestic animals.
It's not surprising they got everything wrong.
Just look at the state of the environment, the empty supermarket shelves, the rotting crops, and the continuing river and coastal pollution that’s occurred while these clowns were in charge of fixing that too.
Being lectured and regulated by people who work for one of the least respected professions and worst performing institutions in the country is neither ironic or rich.
It’s because all delusional bureaucratic institutions think they’re qualified to do anything and fail at everything.
DEFRA also decided that sending mentally vacuous local authority muppets around to tell us that we need more education or extra staff to do our jobs and telling us how we should run our businesses was a good idea too.
And this is neither ironic or rich because local authorities are our largest annual services expenditure and local authorities can’t even tie their own shoelaces without wasting money or falling on their faces.
The acutely vicious and honest clap back from our industry is that no one who works for a living needs any inexperienced bureaucratic desk-bound clowns dictating any aspect of our lives or businesses under any circumstances until they can show the country that they can do their own first.