Extracts from Lords proceedings - Jan 27
Thursday, 28 January 2021 08:22
Extract from Lords consideration of the Agricultural Products, Food
and Drink (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 Lord Empey (UUP)
[V]:...As time goes by, each day brings a new challenge. Today’s
comes from Amazon which—as one of the most sophisticated retailers
in the world—says that it will have to withdraw a number of
products. It has already stopped selling alcohol because it would
be subject to two amounts of excise duty. We will not even be able
to have our busy Lizzies and...Request free trial
Extract from Lords
consideration of the Agricultural Products, Food and Drink
(Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020
(UUP) [V]:...As time goes by, each day
brings a new challenge. Today’s comes from Amazon which—as one of the most
sophisticated retailers in the world—says that it will have to
withdraw a number of products. It has already stopped selling
alcohol because it would be subject to two amounts of excise duty.
We will not even be able to have our busy Lizzies and begonias
introduced from Great Britain because British soil is no longer
allowed. This is happening every day and, naturally enough, people
are asking us where all this is going and what it means. Can the
Minister prevail upon his right honourable friend the Secretary of
State for Northern Ireland to desist from maintaining that there is
no border in the Irish Sea? It is becoming increasingly a source of
anger and dismay among our business community and the general
public that we are trying to pretend—like King Canute—that the tide
has not come in, when in fact it is there every day for hauliers
and businesspeople to deal with...
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Extract from Committee
stage (Lords) of the Domestic Abuse Bill
(Non-Afl):...Using data as a predictive tool to
improve preventive interactions sounds like common sense but could
mean adopting a pre-crime approach that criminalises and demonises
people when no crime has been committed. It can also be fatalistic
and get things very wrong. One noble Lord made the point that
algorithms can predict our likes and dislikes based on what we buy.
Well, if you could see what Amazon predicts I will like,
based on what I bought at Christmas, you would know that depending
on algorithmic predictions in something as serious as criminal
justice cases would be a mistake. We should be very wary of going
down that road...
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