Larry Stoter wrote in message
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trufflesdad wrote:

I have just received a load of farm manure for my allotment...The farmer
told me if I wanted any more I must get it before 2004 as the EU were
regarding it as toxic waste and it would need a special licence to be
transported on the public highway...This licence would be specific to the
driver and as he employs casual labour he could not afford all the
fees...
Wonder if anyone else has heard about this and if so what can be
done
about it....


Withdraw from the EU. Then we won't get stupid EU regulations,
and the rest of the stupid regulations will clearly be home-grown, so we can
hold our own politicians to account for them. It's
called accountability, and it's in extremely short supply with
the current EU/national govt set-up. If the new EU constitution
gets passed then accountability will disappear completely
for decades. Lack of accountability breeds revolutions.

Several issues here ...

1. The "popular" press do make up stories to fill space and having a go
at the EU is a favorite fantasy space filler, usuallly with no
foundation in fact. Just because it is in the Sun or on Sky news, it's
not necessarily true or even vaguely related to reality.


Er, just because it's a story that reflects badly on the EU, it
ain't necessarily _untrue_. Just start from Edith Cresson's
dentist, proceed through many years of EU accounts that
cannot be signed off by the auditors, and try to think why they appointed
megabrain Kinnock as the guy that could clean up
the EU commission. The corrupt EU political classes are
still laughing about it.

2. A lot of EU originating legislation (and some UK legislation) is, for
practical purposes, irrelevant. Unless legislation provides for (and
funds) enforcement mechanisms, the legislation is a complete waste of
everbodies' time, unless the police are looking for a nicely obscure
piece of law to have a go at somebody who has upset them.


Wrong. All these rarely-enforced laws are of great use to
state employees, in ensuring a suitable forelock-touching attitude amongst
the grinning peasants. If you're not polite
to a functionary when he's throwing his weight about, then he'll
find another 3 laws to stuff you with.

Rarely-enforced laws, in case you haven't noticed, also
create corruption. Bent local authority officials and politicised higher
civil servants do their master's
bidding, either if the master is their Labour boss or the guy with
the cash.

3. The British really should take a much more robust and commited
approach to the EU - like the French and Germans. If you don't like a
specifc EU law, ignore it.

You are a clown, aren't you? The difference is here that the
whole apparatus of the state will be used to enforce stupid laws.

If the barristers who have taken over
goverment start to get difficult, 5 tonnes of fish guts or pig manure in
Whitehall will probably encourage them to reconsider :-))


It ain't barristers as a class that are the problem, though
certian individuals who are creating this problem are
barristers. The problem is that 'the gentleman from Whitehall knows best'- a
long-established socialist attitude.

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Anton