colinsunderland
RIP Colin
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- Jan 28, 2016
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"A total of 52,741 laws have been introduced in the UK as a result of EU legislation since 1990, according to the Legal business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals."
I'm sure some of the laws are sensible or needed, but doesn't the sheer number make you pause for thought, they must invented a rule for eveything!
I think the bent bananas and cucumbers was a way of highlighting some of the lunacy coming out of brussels, "The regulation states that bananas must be "free from malformation or abnormal curvature." why its just food, its natural, they've got too much time on their hands and wasting valuable money thinking up this nonsense, I wonder how many man hours went into consultations and drafting all these laws.
many people use to read and rely on tabloid newspapers for their information pre the internet, and the EU bent bananas rule was one of the stories they told their readers about, hence everyone's heard of it, so when questioned it comes to mind.
whether these food rules are still in place after all the ridicule I don't know
theres a fairly good explanation here
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