Member

One of the most disturbing aspects of the regulations before us today concerns the manner in which the Government sought to defend them in another place when they were debated there last Monday. The honourable Member for North Antrim, Jim Allister, pointed out that there were many reasons to think that the regulations before us today, depending as they do on the failed methodologies of command economies, would fail, so that the trade diversion that the Government themselves admit in the relevant Explanatory Notes constitutes a clear and present danger would likely take place without any effective countervailing action.