{"product_id":"9781849014304","title":"Bad Laws: An explosive analysis of Britain's Petty Rules, Health and Safety Lunacies, Madcap Laws and Nit-Picking Regulations.","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver the past thirteen years, New Labour has made us wade through a quagmire of petty rules, health and safety lunacies, madcap laws and nitpicking regulations. We have been snooped on, hectored and hounded by state nannies from cradle to grave, all because government and its agencies have nothing better to do than to interfere in our lives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt would not be so bad if the Government ran the country well, but we have to put up with high taxes, street crime, late and dirty trains, the unjustified and disproportionate use of fines and charges, bloody-minded parking restrictions, excessive public sector waste, preposterous European directives, useless and unaccountable council officials and multi-culturalist busybodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this explosive and groundbreaking new book, Philip Johnston makes a stand and exposes the 'Bad Laws', those irritating laws, regulations and Whitehall idiocies that make life in Britain the day-to-day nightmare that it is today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe covers the following laws amongst many others:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act\u003c\/b\u003e (Ripa) or \"snooper's charter\", allows a wide range of government bodies and quangos to watch over people, check on what they are doing and monitor their communications.  \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Safeguarding Vulnerable People Act\u003c\/b\u003e...which will require 11 million people working with children or the elderly to obtain a certificate allowing them to continue to do so yet will be easily evaded by those few individuals who are a danger to children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Hunting Act.\u003c\/b\u003e More foxes have died every year since the Act came into force.  \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Children Act\u003c\/b\u003e. All 25,000 state and private nursery schools, child minders and playgroups are required to follow a new statutory framework dubbed the \"nappy curriculum\". \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSmoking Ban\u003c\/b\u003e - It has interfered both with personal freedom and with commercial enterprise. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHousing Act\u003c\/b\u003e - which brought us Hips in the midst of a property price slump.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEuropean Arrest Warrant\u003c\/b\u003e - which allows British citizens to be extradited to another jurisdiction to stand trial for an offence that is not a crime in the UK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDangerous Dogs Act\u003c\/b\u003e, which became synonymous with hasty and ill-thought-out legislation.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirearms Act\u003c\/b\u003e which wiped out the sport and livelihoods of thousands of law abiding people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWar Crimes Act\u003c\/b\u003e, pushed through using the Parliament Act but which has resulted in not a single conviction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReligious Hatred Act\u003c\/b\u003e which made a bad thought a crime.\u003cbr\u003eNumerous\u003cb\u003e Health and safety\u003c\/b\u003e laws of every description.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Licensing Act \u003c\/b\u003ewhich made it an offence to play a piano in a pub without authorisation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178830708976,"sku":"9781849014304","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781849014304_p0.jpg?v=1763751495","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781849014304","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}