Voting TaKtiX

We all know that the EU exists solely to make life difficult for people by introducing new, pointless regulations. The very idea that it could make life easier by allowing us free travel, movement, standardising weights and measures and giving us rights if we choose to live or visit any other member state is complete anathema, right? James C. M.:

How DARE they give shoppers choice? How DARE they remove pointless domestic regulations that prevent pensioners and single people from being able to buy anything less than half a loaf when all they might want is a few slices

It’s terrible, isn’t it? Deregulate and allow consumers to choose, so that, for example, a single bloke living alone can buy small packets of stuff that goes off quickly so that he can eat it all before it goes off?

How awful…

D’you think there’s a chance that the Europhobic might, possible, acknowledge when the EU does something they’ve been asking for? A little internal consistency? Nah, silly question, I know.

For those that find remembering which countries are part of what, the Pedant General has created a venn diagram that’s reasonably comprehensive.

He forgot Croatia in the accession countries, and hasn’t covered Council of Europe at all, but, well, the rest are all there. The reasons for us to not be in Schengen still elude me, but there y’go…