Then the BBC and others have got very excited over the Commission’s claim that it has been “listening to the people of Europe” by repealing, under its “Refit” programme, more than 6,000 of those regulations they are always complaining about. As my co-author Richard North has long been explaining on his EU Referendum blog, what is really happening is that the EU is only repealing those thousands of directives and regulations in order to “consolidate” them into a smaller number, saying much the same things. One reason for this, as we move stealthily towards world government, is the need to harmonise EU law with standards handed down from global bodies even higher than the EU, such as the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (Unece).