- DEFRA introduced regulations that have undermined the financial viability of an entire sector of UK businesses.
- DEFRA increased costs, introduced financial hardships, increased stress and increased workloads for absolutely no benefit.
- DEFRA caused local authorities to believe that they had the authority to force the closure of multiple business and through their behaviour and attitudes caused an unsustainable loss of expertise to leave the industry.
But after hundreds of bungled inspections only DEFRA are still pretending that is someone else’s fault.
An annual assessment doesn’t imbue any bureaucrat with any expertise or insight, sense of responsibility or social morality.
- If DEFRA were held responsible for their decisions or if DEFRA employed any competent officials or availed themselves of any professional oversight, our regulations would never have been written or passed into law.
- If DEFRA officials could feel the sense of shame that head-mistress Ruth Perry felt before she killed herself after an Ofsted report was bungled - No government official would be allowed within 100 miles of another school and the official responsible for the report would be facing a criminal referral for involuntary manslaughter.
- If DEFRA officials were held to the same standards as they want to hold us to they would receive a zero rating, lose their jobs and their entire department closed immediately.
While it would be a welcome and novel solution, we don’t need every incompetent official to be fired for their failures.
- But we do need a change in the civil service … the endless prevarication, lies and delusional conduct that surrounds every issue would be the starting point.
As a business and as a country we can’t withstand being ruled by failed institutions.
- But as long as bureaucrats are allowed to self-regulate, self protect and exist without rules and outside of consequences, government officials will continue to believe that they are entitled to fuck up everything, stay employed and still get paid.