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I saw the Shapps/Green announcement, and wondered if the topic would show up here.
The UKCA really was a Rees-Mogg /Britannia 2.0/ 'they need us more than we need them' wet dream.
Needless, British exceptionalism based red tape and considerable costs for a small, domestic market only certification. Makes as much sense as the Isle of Thanet having its own 'standards'.
One of the abiding successes of the EU was the adoption of Euro Norms, EN, that did away with petty national standards that were routinely based upon favouring local manufacturers and stifling competition.[ENs did not stop French firms routinely requesting 'homologation'].
mespilus-
The UKCA really was a Rees-Mogg /Britannia 2.0/ 'they need us more than we need them' wet dream.
Yeah I don't think it's going to be a good couple of weeks for poor Moggy, the next thing on the chopping block will be the The Retained EU Law bill, the mood music suggests that it'll be kicked into the long grass very soon too.
HousecatHST
Interesting to see the UKCA has been postponed by Grant Shapps/Michael Green/etc, for the 3rd time. This time for 2 years. it was a nuts idea that was just going to cost business lots of money for zero benefit.
It'll be dead after the next election and is just another step on the road back to standards alinement and re joining the single market, customs union etc.
My long terms prediction is we'll have two terms of Labour moving us closer and closer to the EU, perhaps "a" customs union in the second term and the Tories returning 2035 ish to take us back into the single market.