Should we get rid of red tape?

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КОМЕНТАРІ • 116

  • @snufkinmatt162
    @snufkinmatt162 Місяць тому +86

    This so reminds me of Brexiteers parroting (without evidence) that all EU rules are bad and should be scrapped. In reality they are almost all good and scrapping them would only benefit unscrupulous and greedy business owners. Unscrupulous & greedy... now isn't that the two main characteristics of right wing politicians? What a coincidence!

    • @debb6393
      @debb6393 Місяць тому +5

      Yes, we didn’t have all the sewage in our rivers and sea while we were in EU, water companies must’ve been gleeful when we came out.

    • @ajwright5512
      @ajwright5512 Місяць тому +5

      The response was always "Which rules?" To which they'd respond either with a blank stare or "Straight bananas".

  • @yeastov5470
    @yeastov5470 Місяць тому +21

    "Everyone loves the fireman, yet everyone loathes the fire safety inspector."

  • @sulalee7413
    @sulalee7413 Місяць тому +75

    Oh sweet lord, it's like listening to every minister since 1983! I was a civil service in the Dti (among other ones) where most of what we seemed to do is cost/benefit analysis on this like getting rid of red tape and draft minutes to the ministers explaining the impact. Argh! 😱

  • @RichardFraser-y9t
    @RichardFraser-y9t Місяць тому +182

    Red tape is red because its soaked in the blood of previous disaster.

    • @TheHoliday2012
      @TheHoliday2012 Місяць тому +3

      😂😂😂 yeah right 😂😂😂

    • @44yvo
      @44yvo Місяць тому +7

      True.

    • @Secretgeek2012
      @Secretgeek2012 Місяць тому +17

      ​@@TheHoliday2012Literally, yes it is.
      Every sign you see saying, "Don't do that." is there because someone did exactly that and either died or was seriously injured.

    • @kevintyerman1906
      @kevintyerman1906 Місяць тому +6

      Well, there's an evocative image I didn't expect under a satirical sketch.

    • @RichardFraser-y9t
      @RichardFraser-y9t Місяць тому +4

      @@kevintyerman1906 Comedy is serious.

  • @emmabrooker166
    @emmabrooker166 Місяць тому +50

    Freedom is experienced differently by the powerful and the disempowered.
    Don’t fall for charlatans, folks!

    • @bentilbury2002
      @bentilbury2002 Місяць тому +19

      Yep. Freedom for the powerful is often the freedom to exploit and abuse the disempowered. Freedom for the disempowered is freedom from that exploitation and abuse.

  • @keithsquawk
    @keithsquawk Місяць тому +22

    So many people out there who voted time after time to 'get rid of red tape' and voted for getting rid of all sorts of licensing and regulation inspectors.
    The same people who are reading the Tory Press and going "Shame, shame. Thoughts and prayers"
    They enabled the whole thing, they should look very hard at themselves for voting for greed.

  • @natrelacoustix
    @natrelacoustix Місяць тому +21

    I'm old enough to remember Tories whining and moaning about unions making jobs more difficult because they wanted 'safety standards' for their members. Fast forward to Thatcher and every Tory government since and now you can't go up a ladder for more than 4ft without a risk assessment and then having scaffold erected. Difference? Health and safety is big 'private' business now. Tory mates have shares in companies raking it in.

  • @FenrirWolfganger
    @FenrirWolfganger Місяць тому +9

    Tax/Regulations "No one ever makes a positive case for them but everytime they're cut vulnerable people suffer" Painfully true.

  • @Timlagor
    @Timlagor Місяць тому +12

    The end got clipped
    "..that you know about"

  • @mootpointjones8488
    @mootpointjones8488 Місяць тому +22

    Sums up Cameron and Westminster City Council quite well

  • @br5380
    @br5380 Місяць тому +19

    Whenever I hear anti-H&S rhetoric I'm reminded when we got an extra 1% bonus at the company I worked for at the time because no one had died (on the job) that year...

  • @Demun1649
    @Demun1649 Місяць тому +14

    "That was ONE time! Why keep going on about it"?

  • @JohnAllenRoyce
    @JohnAllenRoyce Місяць тому +25

    Love it Matt! Humans caught in the stupid rhetoric loop is funny when you do it, thank you!!! 😆

  • @clivemortimore8203
    @clivemortimore8203 Місяць тому +5

    "That was one time" hahahaha

  • @alanbeaumont4848
    @alanbeaumont4848 Місяць тому +3

    Common sense would be lots of arrests now and trials later. Convert a dangerously cladded building into a prison.

  • @TheEvertw
    @TheEvertw Місяць тому +3

    "That was one time"
    🤣🤣🤣

  • @CarolynFahm
    @CarolynFahm Місяць тому +4

    Absolutely, positively spot on!

  • @dfishpool7052
    @dfishpool7052 Місяць тому +3

    Priceless - thank you Matt.

  • @weswheel4834
    @weswheel4834 Місяць тому +8

    I forgot that it wasn't 2 different people after watching the violent bit. Found myself imagining how he'd done it :D

    • @MattGreenComedy
      @MattGreenComedy  Місяць тому +12

      Very expensive SFX

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 Місяць тому +4

      @@MattGreenComedy I thought you'd brought your brother Jonathan in to help :)

  • @kellypaws
    @kellypaws Місяць тому +3

    I can't believe that the insulation supplier's share price is still higher than Nadine Dorries's IQ.

  • @middleearth8809
    @middleearth8809 Місяць тому +1

    So we'll said Matt.

  • @marnig9185
    @marnig9185 Місяць тому +16

    Biggest joke: "Common sense"😂 no not by a bit😂

    • @clivemortimore8203
      @clivemortimore8203 Місяць тому

      If you had a market stall selling "common sense" you would never make a profit. The minority who have it don't need to buy it and the rest of us who think we have it already, won't buy it.

  • @jzakk8000
    @jzakk8000 Місяць тому +2

    Utterly brilliant.

  • @djoakeydoakey1076
    @djoakeydoakey1076 Місяць тому +1

    Chestertons fence, if you pull the fence down, you first got to know why it was there in the first place. No one builds fences for no reason. It can be a bad reason but you need to know its a bad reason.

  • @ThoughtandMemory
    @ThoughtandMemory Місяць тому +2

    Red tape may be irritating at times but it’s there because of lessons learned previously.
    Regulation is there to stop the unscrupulous risking other people lives.

  • @Hiltok
    @Hiltok Місяць тому +5

    On point, MG.

  • @maisiedogonline
    @maisiedogonline Місяць тому

    "That was one time!" 😂

  • @Cider4144
    @Cider4144 Місяць тому +7

    When it's cheaper to pay the unlikely fine than it is to the job right and protect lives. Capitalist profit motive at its finest.

  • @BillDavies-ej6ye
    @BillDavies-ej6ye Місяць тому +3

    Good timing. Grenfell, of course. But Trump's reduction of deli meat regulations left 57 in hospital, with 9 deaths.

  • @RazTheVoidTalker
    @RazTheVoidTalker Місяць тому +2

    I mean... it was only that one time! Give him a break!
    You know, like he gave all those people that one time!

  • @carolynwestwood6258
    @carolynwestwood6258 Місяць тому

    Wow! So cleverly put together!!

  • @oldgreybeard2507
    @oldgreybeard2507 Місяць тому +10

    Perhaps if we were rid of the red tape surrounding people who would make a bonfire of red tape people would still be alive and families not torn apart.

  • @TheEvertw
    @TheEvertw Місяць тому +2

    There are ALWAYS unscrupulous people who have no problem with endangering the lives or well-being of other people. These will continue to be a problem. Red tape does not stop them. But most red tape is the embodiment of lessons learned the hard way.

  • @howarddavies3744
    @howarddavies3744 Місяць тому +1

    Spot on!

  • @aljosacebokli
    @aljosacebokli Місяць тому +3

    Haven't followed new in a while, and I shudder at the thought that you've taken inspiration from something an elected representative put forth.

    • @MattGreenComedy
      @MattGreenComedy  Місяць тому +7

      So many people to choose from…

    • @HALLish-jl5mo
      @HALLish-jl5mo Місяць тому +3

      This was a government rule during the coalition.
      I imagine it worked really well for a year or two, and then they started running out of daft regulations.
      It reminds me of that policy some companies have to fire the worst performing 10% of employees every year. First year they implement this policy, it goes amazingly and gets rid of loads of useless people. Second year there are some good people lost as well. Third year it really starts to cut into great workers, and by year 5 people are hiring sacrificial lambs just to save their own necks.

  • @obtuse1291
    @obtuse1291 Місяць тому +1

    One red tape that I am all for is the one covering the size of steel cables to be used on passenger lifts. Can you imagine how many would be dead by now if builders were allowed to use any old bit of wire they had to hand?
    This logic can of course be applied to almost any regulation you care to mention. 😂

  • @reidflemingworldstoughestm1394
    @reidflemingworldstoughestm1394 Місяць тому +1

    They never mean "like that," do they?

  • @silviasanchez648
    @silviasanchez648 Місяць тому +1

    I love how his defence isn't "I didn't do it, that's a lie" but "I did it but just once".

  • @bernardcharlesworth9860
    @bernardcharlesworth9860 Місяць тому +4

    No red tape in buildings as the builders own building control companies

  • @tamara3984
    @tamara3984 Місяць тому +4

    Off topic - nice shirt.

  • @Tulkash01
    @Tulkash01 Місяць тому +7

    I sense the reference to a certain tragedy whose investigation was finally completed a few days ago...
    Well done, Matt.

  • @adewhite731
    @adewhite731 Місяць тому +1

    Yo! Big respect to mah maim man! 😊

  • @wildflower3379
    @wildflower3379 Місяць тому

    Something of a Pickle there.

  • @mrnice7570
    @mrnice7570 Місяць тому +5

    Matt Green for PM!!!

    • @natrelacoustix
      @natrelacoustix Місяць тому +1

      Please no. Matt seems like a great guy, but popularisim is how we got into this political mess.

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 Місяць тому +1

      @@natrelacoustix Agree, but I'm not sure that Matt is a populist.

    • @mrnice7570
      @mrnice7570 Місяць тому

      @@natrelacoustix couldn't do any worse than ANY career politician......

  • @caccioman
    @caccioman Місяць тому +1

    Britain: collapsing buildings are just a fact of life 🤷

  • @Secretgeek2012
    @Secretgeek2012 Місяць тому +2

    "Common sense" is more often neither.

    • @michaelk.jensen1611
      @michaelk.jensen1611 Місяць тому +1

      Common sense should include the limit of common Sense. Preferably applied to the actual situation in front of you.
      Common sense if we really have to use that as "tool" i prefer not to .
      Is like, "dont step in the dog shit right in front of you.
      Dont go under the ladder where the person is right now painting the wall, and you have nothing to do your self but look out for that.
      Its also common sense .. that we make mistakes.
      That work places where we come up against situations where we should use or constant "common sense" all the time, that it will fail eventually, by your self or by some one else, many times because another person has a slightly different view on what common sense is.
      Common sense is not any specific thing it can t do anything and is sHIT for anything remotely complex.

    • @cancerino666
      @cancerino666 Місяць тому

      The only proof I need that we cant rely on common sense to prevent disaster, is that tories have been elected.

  • @enothewonderdog
    @enothewonderdog Місяць тому

    this rocks Matt.

  • @Mudge07
    @Mudge07 Місяць тому +1

    Hit it on the shin, oww, Matt. Methinks the, “Little Boxes” theme tune is a clue to these planners’ and builders’ ethos. Le Corbusier may not be trending style-wise but at least he saw humanity and domicile functionality before profit.

  • @roderickmain9697
    @roderickmain9697 Місяць тому +1

    "....I've also never maimed anybody" :-))
    Its amazing how uncommon common sense actually is. And despite previous experience of expecting adults to have it, finding they dont, then creating rules and regs instead, finding out that even the "common sense" of following said rules and regs isnt all that common, they want to get rid of rules and regs and go back to relying on common sense. Of course, common sense would tell you that is a mad idea which likely demonstrates that those advocating for common sense dont actually have it themselves.

  • @Sean006
    @Sean006 Місяць тому +2

    De-regulation is for people who like to live dangerously!.....are you a risk taker, do you like dicing with death?.....then join the Conservative and Unionist party.

  • @Alo4321
    @Alo4321 Місяць тому +1

    And who's gonna pay to retrain the red tape makers?

  • @theoldar
    @theoldar Місяць тому +1

    Welcome to modern America.

  • @danksheev66
    @danksheev66 Місяць тому

    Me barking on about taxing the rich at parties.

  • @chriswarburtonbrown1566
    @chriswarburtonbrown1566 22 дні тому

    My sister in law was an apprentice in the 80s. On day one her group of 30 were warned by their boss 'Probably two of you will die during the apprenticeship'. And that's exactly what happened through industrial accidents. That's why we now have H&S 'red tape'.

  • @wmorris189
    @wmorris189 Місяць тому +2

    Red tape. For us Essential protections. For corporate monsters A tedious restriction on profiteering 😎

  • @tonyclewes8
    @tonyclewes8 Місяць тому +1

    Proper regulation catches them
    Proper sanctions dissuades them in the first place.

  • @notadoctora7956
    @notadoctora7956 Місяць тому

    Thank

  • @meh3247
    @meh3247 Місяць тому +1

    How would car parks, furniture stores and stupormarkets know they need to be "grand" opened if they weren't wrapped in red tape?

  • @patchso
    @patchso Місяць тому +1

    That was more of a serious political point than comedy. Which is fine as it was a very good political point!

  • @Amstermouse1
    @Amstermouse1 Місяць тому

    😂 quality

  • @derekmulready1523
    @derekmulready1523 Місяць тому

    The Result of the enquiry into the Saint Valentine fire at the Stardust in Dublin concluded this year.
    Each family affected is to receive €500,000.
    14th February 1981.
    🇮🇪🇪🇺

  • @jaredstaniland9117
    @jaredstaniland9117 Місяць тому

    without red tape you wouldn't have such great contributions to mankind as 'Yes Minister'... or, 'Yes Prime Minister'! These are just 2 of the contributions that bureaucracy has made to society..

  • @humanperson8418
    @humanperson8418 8 днів тому

    Regulations are good if they are effective & minimal. Regulations in the UK are ineffective and excessive.

  • @KieranKelly-o9s
    @KieranKelly-o9s Місяць тому

    Didn't Kerry Packer say the same thing in an Australian select committee?

  • @tonyclewes8
    @tonyclewes8 Місяць тому +1

    Small government gets you Grenfell. Yet the Tory leadership competition is still banging on about it. They are increasingly irrelevant.

  • @wonderfullife3108
    @wonderfullife3108 Місяць тому

    Maybe we could replace red tape with a slightly inferior version, a sort of pinkish tape that looks almost the same but made in China or somewhere and a lot cheaper and put together with some slightly compromised quality control and testing and not really that inflamable at all.

  • @englandcalling9721
    @englandcalling9721 Місяць тому +8

    Get rid of all red tape, and replace it with green tape. It's like red tape, only green is trendier for the environment....thingy.

  • @harlinos100
    @harlinos100 Місяць тому +1

    As a lover of games, I welcome regulation. Can you imagine how shit a game would be without rules? By definition, it would no longer be a game..

    • @cancerino666
      @cancerino666 Місяць тому

      Anyone that has ever worked in designing very popular games can tell there is a significant percentage of the adult population that lacks common sense. I speak from experience.

    • @harlinos100
      @harlinos100 Місяць тому

      @@cancerino666 I thought this was the case but chalked it up to my autism

  • @AndyM_323YYY
    @AndyM_323YYY Місяць тому

    What are those regulations for cladding high rise buildings for anyway?

  • @garryferrington811
    @garryferrington811 Місяць тому

    Great. Open the UK to Chinese-style "tofu-dreg" construction. What could go wrong?

  • @2lefThumbs
    @2lefThumbs Місяць тому

    Too soon Matt FFS
    I haven't read the Grenfell report yet, so view this as a "spoiler"

  • @Earlover
    @Earlover Місяць тому

    I have never used red tape so go on get rid of it. I prefer clear tape or white tape some times.

  • @mikerodent3164
    @mikerodent3164 Місяць тому

    One slight fault with this: the free-market proselytiser didn't have a shiny enough face. I didn't catch the name of the other guy: it certainly wasn't Jonathan Goodenough: as a true media professional, Jonathan's deepest instinct is Always Keep Things Fluffy Luvs. All this morality stuff is a bit of a draaaaaaag.

  • @FirstoftheAbyss92
    @FirstoftheAbyss92 Місяць тому +7

    You're asking for common sense from a man who deleted the rules against kicking/ punching people as soon as it was possible.

  • @LeafHuntress
    @LeafHuntress Місяць тому

    Isn't being a part of the panel of the live version of -Remainiacs- Oh god what now? basically a party? It looked like fun & people pay for it...

  • @robinwhitebeam4386
    @robinwhitebeam4386 Місяць тому

    I think we should keep Red Tape because we have a Red Labour government. Change the tape colour to match the Government colour.

  • @adblocker276
    @adblocker276 Місяць тому

    Let’s apply the same logic to hard drogs

  • @KenPassey-hd2mc
    @KenPassey-hd2mc Місяць тому +1

    The Tories didn't like"Red" tape,they preferred blue tape. So we ended up with no tape at all, so that each party could blame rach other.😂👏👏👍👍

  • @TheCaptScarlett
    @TheCaptScarlett Місяць тому +3

    Not the market will decide, Darwin will decide

    • @weswheel4834
      @weswheel4834 Місяць тому +1

      You sound like you are agreeing with Jacob Rees Mogg?

  • @jeaniebottle6758
    @jeaniebottle6758 Місяць тому

    How many layers of tin foil under that beanie hat do you have Tim?
    How many layers do you recommend, 1-2-3 or more?

  • @jenniferpatton5108
    @jenniferpatton5108 Місяць тому

    Free PALESTINE
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  • @tinagibbs618
    @tinagibbs618 Місяць тому

    😄xx