'There's just too many laws!' Claire Fox and Toby Young on trivial legislation | SpectatorTV 

If you could repeal one piece of legislation which would it be?

You cannot legislate society out of its decline.

Love listening to Claire Fox, she’s so rational and genuinely wants Britain to be a freer society 🇬🇧

Mass immigration, why work harder for no extra pay, why work harder for no better job why work harder for no home.

Perhapsthey should enforce existing laws

You cannot own a cat. A cat chooses where it wants to live and who it wants to live with

Claire Fox and Toby Young are great

Laws are for the little people. Partygate, Post Office scandal, Dominic Cummings and Barnard Castle. Those that rule are rarely held to account.

The passage of many laws about trivia or impossibilities brings the whole law into disrepute

Way back in the 60's I remember reading that every time we woke in the morning we had to remember the over 8,000 Laws and regulations in place at the time because IGNORANCE OF THE LAW IS NO EXCUSE.

Too many laws. Too much tax. Too much regulation. Free we are not.

"Ignorance of the law is no excuse", we need the government to fund all citizens in to taking a degree in UK law.

There was a state somewhere in which the proponent of a new law had to stand on a block with their neck in a noose. If the law failed of acceptance then the block was removed

Kerry Packer, the Australian media mogul, when complaining about more laws being passed by the Australian government to curb his business interets,made the very sensible suggestion that for every new law introduced, one old existing law should be repealed.It made perfect sense to me to stop the state just churning out law after useless new law.Of course his idea wasn't accepted.

I have thought for years that there is too much law making. We should get MP’s out of Westminster and meeting their constituents rather than grandstanding in the Chamber

To many Lawyers in the HoC & lords therefore they love making new laws.

Claire Fox for PM !

thank you for finally letting me know what a stakeholder is!!

I have two suggestions . 1, Newtonian legislating... Newton said 'for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. So for every law that gets passed an equally large,(or small) law must be removed from the statute books . 2, Politicians should, by default, but not all the time, follow the simple premise.... "Don't just do something, sit there. This pause would allow thought, reflection and critical internal and external debate on an issue .

Clair Fox continues togo up in my estimation. Toby Young also. Heres's to Common Law and here's to hatred of that which should be hated!

Lawmakers make new laws or they will be out of a job, the same goes for the EU, if they don't keep making laws they won't have anything to do and their job would be as redundant as them.

Cats choose you, not the other way round!!!

Go, Claire go!

Law making as governmental Virtue signalling. So true.

Can we get a bill to find stolen bikes.

It's not trivial if you get your dog stolen, it's devastating.

There ARE too many laws ffs. Use the plural.

In the Sixties I remember reading that upon awakening in the morning I had to remember the 8000+ Laws and Regulations commonly in use at that time as ignorance of the Law is no excuse! Trouble is, Laws are so rarely erased even when no longer relevant.

Brilliant insights exposing the “consultation process”

Why always adopt the 'american systems' - they're retro-gressive and crap as it turns out!

Lady Fox (as I think of her).

They can be so mindless

Yes, “stake holders” are activists, so minority views are magnified and mainlined into parliamentary action. Perhaps there should be a mainstream views “stakeholders” that are factored in via consultations. Minority rule is very problematic.

There is some interesting discussion here. However, Toby Young is totally wrong about 15-minute cities. All it means is having services within a 15-minute walk. It doesn't mean you can ONLY travel 15-minutes from your home.

The only area of law I know well concerns child employment. And it's such a patchwork mess that most people think it's been banned outright. A 14 year old can get a job in an office*, but they'll need permission from the local authority, but they can't work in a factory, except when organised by a school, but they can work in a pub, unless a local byelaw prohibits it, but they may still be able to sell alcohol in a sealed container, but if there isn't a byelaw then they can serve alcohol, but only if each sale is authorised by the bar manager, unless it's for a table meal, in which case they can sell alcohol, but only in the restaurant area, unless the restaurant area has a bar. So I can only imagine what a tangled web it is in other areas. * But not for more than an hour before school, unless a byelaw allows it, but for a maximum of 2 hours a day, except during the holidays when they can do 5 hours, unless they're 15 when they can do 8 hours, but only for a total of 12 hours a week, except during school holidays when they can do 25 hours a week, unless they're 15 when they can do 35 hours, but not after 7pm or before 7am.

There are*

Why no acknowledgement that this was prompted by a very similar article in The Critic last week? BTW it's almost certainly the case that Toby did NOT knock on doors and leave his phone number in the cat episode.

There are laws that cover this, pet's are property. To take a cat is theft.

It is so sad and depressing that someone like Claire Fox is rewarded with a position in the House of Lords. She has views on bullying and abuse issues that I strongly disagree with. It shows what sort of views get you rewarded in society Oh by the way to all the right wing, remember Fox was in the Communist Party.

What sort of monster doesn't recognize their own cat!

My attention span is too short for any more Toby Young waffle. Bailed out at 2' 27".

The Tories have been in power for FOURTEEN YEARS and they've only just discovered they've passed all these laws "The Tories are theoretically in favour of a smaller state" - actually no, they're in favour of private power and the public realm having as little as possible ability to restrict the activities of banks, corporations and the people who own them. The Tories over the last 45 years have actually created the most privatised state in the Western world and that is where your taxes are going: to subsidise privatised utilities, outsourced services and then things like tax credits and housing benefit which prop up low wage employers and private landlords. To those on the Right complaining about "small boats" i.e illegal immigration, who has the contracts for the accommodation for all these people? It's likes of Serco and Capita. Who's the former CEO of Serco? Rupert Soames, brother of Tory big wig Nicholas Soames

Laws on MPs lying would be very useful, like about the benefits of Brexit...

Toby, I'm surprised to hear you speak with forked tongue. The '15-minute city' idea is nothing whatsoever to do with restricting peoples' movements but restricting the unnecessary use of private cars. People would still be completely free to move around the city using other means of transport. You should know better.

Definitely, and fewer muppets and Islamists, by about 100%.

Monty Python reference #2: Fish licence! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pnq96W9jtuw.htmlsi=YtfwH-lmRl0iUYY8