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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
It's the same problem in the U.S. resulting from an inherent flaw in an electorial form of government representation. It works like this:
1. Lawmakers feel constant pressure to act on things in order to avoid the appearance (or worse still, accusation by a challenger at re-election time) of being "do-nothing".
2. As such, they feel the need to sensationalize every issue possible to keep their names in the public eye and to appear "on it", passing far more legislation than is probably needed.
3. Most legislation goes into law without any provision for expiration or "sunset clauses". As such, the number of rules on the books grows and grows and grows until you get to the point we are at today - where virtually everything and anything from birth until death (inclusive) is either illegalized, regulated, overseen, restricted or taxed.
4. Problem is complicated by the ever-growing population of hand-wringing ninnies out there who want/expect the government to do things for them "because my tax dollars are paying for it!"
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Absolutely spot on, it also doesn't help that the British public in general are pretty apathetic. If you try and bring in these kind of restrictions in some where like France, you would have riots.
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The problem we American's have is thinking they are a bunch of tea sipping gentlemen in bowler hats. When the fact is a huge percentage are yobs
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I don't drink tea or wear a bowler hat but I'm no yob!