Originally Posted by
Often1
We've brought most of this on our stuff. So-called "pro consumer" and "pro privacy" disclosures and warnings are a necessary evil of a system which imposes liability for every small transgression.
How is that other EU member states manage to avoid this stuff, leaving (mostly) just the UK gold-plating all the regs?
When you phone AY - with no status(!) - you get through to a human within seconds, and they can fix stuff straight away (e.g. seat reservation for OWE).
For example, it seems lifts across mainland Europe don't actually eat people alive just because they don't have a loud voice warning
"DOORS CLOSING!!" before the doors close. Who determined that this was necessary in the UK? Are we a nation of muppets?