Another unless branch of government: The Risk and Regulation Advisory Council

The Risk and Regulation Advisory Council will be reporting to PM Gordon Brown, who is concerned that the cotton-wool culture is denying people the freedom to enjoy themselves that he has asked the watchdog to report to him personally.

He really does not get it does he? We need less rules, less regulations and this whole department is just one huge waste of time, effort and public money.

Unnecessary warnings that bags of peanuts “may contain nuts” and overly protective rules banning conker fights in schools will be targeted by a new watchdog intended to restore Britain’s spirit of adventure.

Gordon Brown is so concerned that the cotton-wool culture is denying people the freedom to enjoy themselves that he has asked the watchdog to report to him personally.

The move comes after a festive season in which actors in pantomimes were banned from throwing sweets to children in case someone got hit on the head and Christmas lights were banned in towns and villages for fear that they might pull down lampposts. A Rotary club in the Midlands was even made to put its Father Christmas in a body harness in case he fell off his sleigh.

Last summer hanging baskets were banned in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk in case they fell on the head of a passer-by, and home-made cakes were banned from a fête for fear that they might cause food poisoning.

There will be disappointment that Mr Brown’s response to such killjoy acts is not to halve the number of health and safety officials or revise the hundreds of regulations introduced under this Labour Government.

**Now that might have something to do with the fact that much of the over regulation actually comes via the EU, our mother of Parliament's just rubber stamps the appropriate box and so they can't actually repeal the law short of taking it back to the EU.

That said a massive cull of government employee's, slash whole departments of bean counters, tree inspectors, diversity monitors and the like would be a good move. Won't happen under Labour, but we can hope..

The Risk and Regulation Advisory Council has been set up in response to recommendations from the Better Regulation Commission that it has replaced.

The body for common sense will be set up alongside a national campaign to emphasise the importance of self- reliance and a sense of adventure. It is intended to engage the public, and remind them that the Government is not responsible for every accident or piece of bad fortune that befalls its citizens. The team of seven will tackle policy areas where there are fears that the Government is in danger of overkill.

Ten years, ten damn years it has taken them to realise that we are being over regulated an still they can not get it right.

They nanny on everything from plastic glasses, ban smoke almost everywhere, preach with regards our salt intake, use meaningless units to measure our beer intake, insist that everything has to have a sodding risk assessment before anyone can do anything, government should govern but not micromanage.

1984 was not meant to be a sodding manual for New Labour.

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