EU to implode under burden of red tape

The EU Referendum blog has a post titled Cut red tape or suffer decline.

The whole post is worth reading but my reason for commenting on it is because it reenforces a point that I've been harping on for a while: the Europeans are drowning in their statist waste products.

Here's Richard of EU Referendum:

Latest of the long line of critics, the government's own 'red-tape czar' is calling on the EU to improve its business regulation or face long-term economic decline, according to The Times today.

Of course the Europeans are already in decline. Then the 'red-tape' czar, in a Herculean feat of mental alchemy, then

... called for an independent organisation to monitor and audit red tape and said: 'There need to be sufficient commission civil servants (sic) to carry out these functions and to progress the simplification agenda.'

Did ya catch that? The clueless Euro-weenie is proposing to add another set of bureaucrats who's purpose is to lift the dead hand of bureaucracy from Europe's vestigial economies. That like sending Custer more indians.

Asked what would happen if red tape continued to grow, Mr Arculus said: 'I think the consequences for Europe are extremely serious.' Europe's economy could decline to half the size of the US over the next 20 years if the tide of regulation was not stemmed, he said. [emphasis mine—johnh]

Yup, that's why the only thing that Europe is going to do is shrink in our rear-view mirror as we leave them behind.


Hat tip to The Diplomad