Legislation that needs to be translated into 24 languages is better off dull than ambiguous.

Sure. How about 441-pages long US counterpart?

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2016/pdf...

A 120-page manual about good writing practices - and that makes the reader a dull person?

I read through the beginning of the document and it looks good to me. It seems to be a well-written readable document which can be immediately useful for people writing company documentation (such as myself - occasionally I have to pause writing code all day).

You don't really want to be creative when producing legal documents. Other (supra) government bodies have similar style guides.

I look at the IBM style guide and Microsoft style guide fairly frequently these days. I wonder what does that say about the state of the US economy, politics, and ideology? Exactly the same amount as the EUC Style Guide about the EU, I'd wager.

And? Don't you want your politicians to be boring, really

Try MTV or any other reality tv then.

> A 120 pages manual on how to be a completely dull person.

Trump is what you get otherwise. Popularity contest with hollow interior.