On 17/11/13 13:27, Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
Martin wrote:

Read the draft regulation and one can recognise it as another straight banana
myth.
It's not obvious to me why the UK press specialises in creating EU myths. It
doesn't happen elsewhere in the EU AFAIK

It is to me :-(

Yes, Minister etc. was the acceptable face of the mandarins. As a
group, their primary skill is ensuring that some innocent party gets
the blame for their malice, negligence, incompetence and even what
is arguably treason.

Government by civil servants has been replaced by government by
SpAds (special advisors). If you believe the rhetoric about
the efficiency of the free market etc, then the corollary is
that SpAds are very good at pushing their (financial)
backers' interests.

I find it difficult to distinguish SpAds from the
Tolkien character Wormtongue.

Choose your poison

Their SOP is to take a reasonable directive,
'gold plate' it for their own reasons and ensure that the EU gets
the blame for its extremism.

There's some truth in that, but it isn't universal. In
particular the CAA has been pleasantly effective at pushing back
against the new EASA regulations.

But what REALLY ****es off the Eurocrats is when the British
representatives demand that something is included or omitted,
despite the fact that everyone else disagrees, threatening a veto
if they don't get their way - and THEN say that they tried their
best to avoid that but the evil Eurocrats insisted.