We're all in this together

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/12/red-tape-challenge-assault-on-laws

The more so because, as David Cameron has made clear, it isn't just about regulations, codes and rules. It's primary legislation too. The aim, he said in April, is "to massively reduce the number of rules, laws and regulations that, frankly, treat all of you like idiots." The key word there is laws. And sure enough, the Cabinet Office has put statutes as large as the Health and Safety at Work Act, the Sale of Goods Act, the Climate Change Act and the Wildlife and Countryside Act on the table. So too is the Equality Act. This isn't red tape. It is major legislation. Small wonder it isn't just the usual suspects like the TUC who are alarmed by what's afoot.

I agree with Martin Kettle that these acts contain 'hard-won, well-constructed and socially essential law'.