Re: One thing Brexit won't hurt
British civil servants are still gold-plating EU directives even just before Brexit. Here's a quote from a story I read a few months back:
The Package Travel Regulations – designed to protect travellers who book flights and hotels online – will mean that B&Bs and hotels need extra insurance if they want to reserve guests a table at the hotel’s own restaurant or book them a taxi to a local pub. [...] The regulations, based on an EU directive, were intended to offer travellers the protection they would have if they booked through a travel agency. But the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy extended the rules to cover any service not part of the room rate – something no other EU country has done
And while searching for this one, another one came up although this one was from 2004:
Alone among EU countries, according to mountain sports companies, Britain is extending a Brussels directive on safety-at-height to leisure climbing, as well as the originally intended target of builders, steeplejacks and window cleaners.
Perhaps people's ire should be directed at Whitehall instead of the EU?