LordFisheh said:
The thing is, there are actually people sitting in a conference room thinking this is a good idea. But talk to someone on the street, and you'll rarely get one who agrees. Does becoming a eurocrat just change people? Or does it take a crazy person to seek out the job in the first place? It's hard to believe that there wasn't a single person in authority along the convoluted process who called bullshit on this.
I agree to an extent, but it's not a conference room in Europe, it's the Daily Telegraph's 'you couldn't make it up' fiction dept.
There are some slightly strange laws that come from the EU, however, most of the ones that make the papers either were pulled straight from Littlejohn's anus, or have been twisted out of all recognition by an 'opinion journalist'.
By the way, it was recently ruled that 'opinion journalists' can use the phrase 'The facts are', and then follow with lies, as 'its assumed that the reader will understand it's only an opinion. So they can now print 'the facts are, 99% of all cakes in the UK are eaten by lesbian immigrant amputee benefit cheats, paid for by YOUR taxes!' and that's just fine.
The only 'fact' I've really picked up on from newspapers is one of the health articles.
'Reading one less newspaper a day can reduce your fear of cancer/lefties/ crime/immigrants/ Europe/Muslims by 99%'.
Reminds me of 'EU meddlers pass law to force UK shopkeepers to sell eggs by weight, the traditional half dozen box is doomed!'.
Turns out they were just modifying an old law which specified that eggs had to be weighed and the weight printed on the box somewhere, while nothing else else changed. They were still to be sold by sixes, dozens or hundreds, whatever the vendor chose.
To which the response was 'But it'll force UK farmers to buy expensive weighing and sorting equipment, putting honest british jobs at risk! OMG EU!'
When in fact farmers already weigh the eggs, that's how you get a box of medium or large or x large eggs.
I'm not sure that Europe is the right move for the UK in all ways, but every time I see another piece of entirely fabricated scaremongering by the tabloids, and when the Times or Telegraph do shit like this, they ARE being tabloids, it makes me want to vote pro Europe. I mean, surely there's got to be real reasons against Europe they could be reporting on?
