Bendy bananas

[Rod Speed]

BULLSHIT.

[Rod Speed]

That's mindless bullshit with parliaments.

Just because some fool says something...

Bullshit.

[Jeff Gaines]

Brexiteers are far too intelligent to believe remainiac loser comments about bent bananas.

[Rod Speed]

Jeff Gaines [e-mail] wrote

Nope, you do.

I never did anything of the sort.

Wrong, as always. And the WTO only applys to exports, not to stuff like subsidys for nukes, trains etc within the country.

[Rod Speed]

You never could bullshit your way out of a wet paper bag.

[Jeff Gaines]

Here's the quote:

See "neither" in there.

Do the research.

[Ian Jackson]

In message [e-mail], Rod Speed [e-mail] writes

Yes they did - they really did. They gave the bent banana regulations as a typical example of how stupid and bureaucracy-ridden the EU was. I have at least half a dozen friends who gave this as their reason for voting leave. Or were they simply joking - are worse still, lying?

Many now say that their decision was never really much about the economy, regulations, trade and such complicated things. but instead it was simply an objection in principle to being to told what to do by a totally undemocratic, corrupt and wasteful EU.

[Jeff Gaines]

The vote was confidential, same as a vote in an election. You have no right to know why people voted as they did, it's just insolence on your part, mind your own business.

"Many"? How many to the nearest million? Again, mind your own business.

[Joe]

But even so, bananas with 'abnormal curvature' don't need to be allocated a class by law. It is perfectly possible to look at them before buying.

[Spike]

Probably, your friends were politely trying to shut up a Remainer bore for the umpteenth time.

“…a totally undemocratic, corrupt and wasteful EU” sounds spot on.

You do realise that none of the €billions of money doled out under the CAP was monitored? It bought some nice mini-palaces on ‘farms’ in Eastern Europe. Some places near Durham Castle got the same treatment.

[Joe]

As you know, the issue was the use of a law (actually a Directive, I think) brought to bear on such an unbelievably trivial matter, with many hours of excruciatingly expensive time wasted on it. It was actually referring to bananas, but the stupidity would be the same if it referred to apples, pears or sherbet lemons.

In my case, not only being told what to do, but even the fact of my country being a member 'state' of such a completely awful and corrupt organisation. Ineffective, as well, if you recall the Lisbon Agenda (not the Treaty).

This statement was made in 2000 to be achieved by 2010, with considerable fanfare:

"the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion"

It was probably possible to tell Leavers from Remainers even then by seeing who laughed when they heard/read that. I certainly did.

[Rod Speed]

Ian Jackson [e-mail]> wrote

Bullshit.

Bullshit.

Then you need to get out more.

Or you never had a clue.

Fuck all.

[Rod Speed]

Jeff Gaines [e-mail] wrote

Doesnt say that there is only one trade agreement.

Been there, done that. The WTO gets no say what so ever on what happens within any country that isnt relevant to TRADE/

[Pamela]

After Brexit the average Brit is less well off, has less freedom of movement, gained no additional sovereignty, gets poorer services due to staff shortages, has a lower standard of living, there's less choice of goods in our shops, we replaced European workers with Africans and Asians, fake refugees still arrive at our shores .... and no unicorns appeared.

Other G7 countries recovered from Covid and the energy shortage far better than Britain. Yet there are clowns who still try to fool the public by claiming Brexit brought benefits, but only by "switch selling" what Brexit was supposed to deliver.

[Ottavio Caruso]

Am 07/06/2023 um 09:38 schrieb Pamela:

And ur telling me this was NOT the main goal of Boris, JR Mug and their cronies?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Precisely. Bendy bananas were the perfect example of an EU regulation that was utterly and completely pointless. It isn't that it was a pointless regulation per se, because it arguably did no harm, so much as it revealed a culture of regulation for its own sake, by bureaucrats with nothing better to do.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I campaigned for UKIP . I must have spoken to over 500 people on the doorsteps and at meetings, and I know what they told me were their reasons for voting.

What the BBC , the Guardian and Ian precious Jackson *thought* were the reasons were just made up, because they were in denial of what the

*real* reasons were. Even greater interference by remote bureaucrats and media tarts in ordinary peoples lives, is the simplest summary.

And a complete failure to listen to them when they complained

[The Natural Philosopher]

Bullshit Baffles Brains, especially in the over educated dimwits that comprise the 'Left'.

[Tim Streater]

Which is also precisely why there's the political mess that we now see in the US. The Dems didn't listen to the plebs - their core base, supposedly, so little wonder they were ripe for seduction by Trump (who is only interested in the plebs in the same way that Adolf was - as a way to power).

[Jeff Gaines]

Oh dear English comprehension problem - neither = not item 1 and not item

2 so it does indicate only one trade agreement.

That's right, we are discussing trade agreements.