I dunno, if the UK can pull off smaller government then they might continue to be attractive to businesses chafing from the high regulations and taxes of the EU.
Other regulations affecting things like working hours or environment wouldn't necessarily be great for the UK to cut back on. These are designed to prevent beggar-thy-neighbour policies that turn into a race to the bottom in a zero sum game. It's better for everyone to agree to the same rules here, game theoretically.
And less freedom to hire people from the continent would just push up labour costs.
So personally I don't think there's any upside from Brexit here. That would have to come from somewhere entirely hypothetical, like significantly better trade deals than the EU currently has.
Errr, that's not true at all. What the EU said was that British fishermen can't fish British waters, but Spanish fisherman can overfish here as they please. Leaving the EU, whatever else it does good or bad, is a massive win for our marine ecosystem.
If British fishermen weren't getting the best deal out of EU fishing quotas, then it can't have helped that the British representative on the EU Fisheries Committee was one Nigel Farage, who never turned up to represent them, but was still happy to use them for Brexit propaganda.
There are lots of EU regulations that are basically pointless busywork. Look at the cookie rules. Huge cost and expense to implement millions of warnings, no benefit, and their plan is to double down on them.
Some countries - particularly ones with larger economies - want to stop smaller economies undercutting their tax bases. The current laws mean that profits get taxed in the country where the company doing the sales is based. There is some talk of changing this so that the profit is more balanced based on where the sales are targeted. I think this is fair; this again comes under beggar-thy-neighbour common rules.
I was talking about the change to EU wide VAT rules that force sellers to charge VAT at the buyer rate not the seller rate.
I havent heard a single person who are against the free market. But UK is split between some / most elite who dont want their nation to fell into others hand, the lower class who gets absolutely no benefits at all, ( They are poor with the free market, and they will STILL be poor if UK leave ), and basically the middle class who think money is the most important factor, and are willing to trade their nationalities for more money or higher standard of living.
Quite the opposite IMO.
But in this case I don't think people have misunderstood them. I think the distinction between "tracking" and "non tracking" cookies is one that exists primarily in the heads of government officials.
No, the issue is with the lazy, cack-handed way the cookie directive was implemented in UK law. Those obtrusive pop-ups aren't a requirement of the directive (which only requires consent, and doesn't specify how that consent is obtained), but of the UK's Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendment) Regulations 2011. And, of course, regulation 6 is worded in just about the most confusing way possible.
OTOH, both the 2002 and 2009 directives have much clearer language, which is funny as they allow latitude to member states as to how they're implemented, and the UK chose the most awkward and intrusive method of implementing them as far as cookies go.
> I think the distinction between "tracking" and "non tracking" cookies is one that exists primarily in the heads of government officials.
No, there's a pretty solid line, but it's like the line between murder and manslaughter: intent. If you're using cookies to help autofill data the user would otherwise have to fill themselves, that's not tracking. If you're using cookies to provide some persistent state across pages (sessions, carts, &c.), that's not tracking. If you're using cookies to records a user's actions on the site, that's borderline, but as long as that data is anonymised and treated only as part of an aggregate, a solid argument can be made that's not tracking, but it might be good to inform the user anyway. Once you start targeting individual users, that's certainly tracking.