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"Mr President, in common, I suspect, with most people in the Chamber, whenever I visit a firm in my constituency, particularly a smaller and medium-sized enterprise, and ask if there is anything I can do to help, the top answer by miles is: ‘Get out of our way, do nothing, leave us alone.’
Here, discussing this proposal, we have a classic example of it. We passed a well-intentioned law saying that people should not work for more than 48 hours and that there need to be statutory rest periods for drivers and so on. What the lawmakers fail to understand is that the hassle lies not in imposing the law, but in proving to the inspector that you have complied with the regulation: the days off work you have to take; the logs you have to keep; all the unnecessary cost and bureaucracy involved in showing, to the satisfaction of the authorities, that you have met the requirements. Now we are reduced to spying on people to make sure that lorry drivers are not in breach of the Working Time Directive.
As the great Chinese sage Lao Tzu said, 600 years before the birth of Christ: ‘Do nothing and the people will, of themselves, prosper.’"@en1
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