The low business taxes are symbolic, but there's so much more to it than that. Mostly it's an attitude difference. Ireland knows that businesses don't have to base themselves in Irelan… (View Post)

Mentioning that exposes the true purpose - our regulatory bureaucracies have become captured by a multi-generational cabal of archaeologists, determined to create regular, easily identifiable, change… (View Post)

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/07/02/why-are-bottle-caps-attached-to-the-bottle-inside-the-eu-directive-causing-drink-spills-ev A measure to reduce plastic waste. An EU directive from 2018. (View Post)

Is the NHS pension funded, or is the employer contribution an accounting fiction related to a promise to pay a pension out of future tax revenues? It's much cheaper to "pay" a pension … (View Post)

Which is why we need to have a seat at the table where these rules are written. Annoying things the EU does is one of the best reasons for joining it. (View Post)