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  My wife will tell you that my sentiments about H&S match Rick's 100%. Not only in the workplace, but at voluntary events and at leisure, the Health and Safety Executive are responsible for huge increases in costs to the extent where many much-loved events have had to be axed due to a combination of red tape and insurance, where businesses have simply given up trying to fight nonsensical working practices and where volunteers simply cannot keep up with the proliferation of legislation. It's simply an area legislated by, and monitored by, jobsworths whose sole aim is seemingly to keep jobsworths in jobs, and bugger the consequences or cost.
  
  A specific example of this is the cheese-rolling contest at Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire that has been held for literally hundreds of years; that is, until the the H&S Executive realised that far too much fun was being had and put the kibosh on it. There are millions more illustrations of this, many of which will be much more serious than cheese rolling, but my point is essentially that our heritage and way of life are in danger of being eroded by pointless legislation. At some stage, common sense has to kick in; let us hope that the Prime Minister has begun the fightback against those that want us to live in a sterile and unimaginative world.

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