Over 1.64 metric tonnes, to be exact.
Ever tried selling a grey squirrel, impersonating a traffic warden, importing Polish potatoes or disturbing a pack of eggs without permission? If you do, you will be breaking the law.
These are among the 3,605 new criminal offences created by the Labour Government since it won power in 1997 – almost one for every day it has been in office.
Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne has described the plethora of new laws as ‘legislative diarrhoea’.
The new offences are made up of 1,238 which were brought in as primary legislation – meaning they were debated in Parliament – and 2,367 by secondary legislation, such as orders in council and statutory instruments.
I would be very interested to see our total here, year by year, if anyone knows where to get that info.
There haven’t been any real laws passed in a long time, only nanny laws now. We’d be better off if the US reps only worked 60 days like they do here in the Sunshine State.