Re: Falling on sword time?
All those years of compliance (with a quite sensible and powerful-to-the-consumer law) will be wasted because of our "independence". They'll just cut the red tape so that their own projects (like the track and trace, etc.) don't fall foul of it either.
I can understand reasonable arguments pro/anti Brexit, but why do remainers keep spouting this ludicrous nonsense? Is it just a desperate attempt at propaganda, or blind refusal to understand the arguments of people you disagree with, in case they might be right?
We need to respect international rules to continue international trade (with the EU and elsewhere). British consumer and data protection law has consistently been tougher than EU minima, and tougher than those implemented by other EU countries (pre-GDPR the UK maximum fines were higher than those permitted in Germany, for example). Part of the parliamentary work before Brexit was specifically to enshrine GDPR in UK law, so that it would not just vanish afterwards. There is no credible reason to believe that reducing UK data protection to levels below GDPR is planned, useful or desirable.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
