Can i have a dozen eggs.....erm no you cant

[Lee Nub]

Whatever next (sigh)

http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Brussels-to-outlaw-eggs-by.6386413.jp

[jibjob79]

When the EU's top priority is describing how you buy your eggs, the same eggs you bought last week as 6 eggs but next week will be 247g worth of eggs i sleep easy knowing the big issues such as world peace has been achieved and world hunger eradicated. British taxes well spent i say, not to mention the amount of money wasted on repackaging and individually pricing the eggs.

Think of the chickens i say!

[captain duff]

It sticks in the throat (no pun intended) even more given it is only last week that all those MEPs were brought off by food industry lobbying and voted against the easy to understand 'traffic lights' system of food labelling and for the completely unreadable (so no one does) RDA system. So much for thinking about the consumer! The only bright light on the horizon is that the artificial state of Belgium looks shakier than ever and may split apart soon (although that has been predicted for years), and if that happens the gravy train may have to find a new home...

[G-man]

First Sir Winston Churchill's cigar.
Now the system by which food is sold
Whats Next ?

I can see a poor sod having a dinner party and finding out 5
minutes prior to the guests arrival that he is 2 dinner rolls short.
I don know my fellow B/SOTL but your system appears broken and
You need to Ban together with the U S A folks and . . . . . . . . . . .
Time for another Tea Party !
Disturbing news learned yessterday from a BOTL that the scale has tipped in the
US 49 % of the blue collar workers are now footing the bill for 51% of the rest of that country !(free loaders)
Its time their voters clean up the system and take their country back !
If this is happening there then its happening everwhere in the world !

These are not the thoughts of the owners and those who monitor this web site.
These are the feelings of a simple man with simple needs .(The right to choose)
Now how simple and complicated could that be?

[eggopp]

We need to get the government to opt out of the European Union, wont be long now and we will be talking another language as everything British is being over ruled by Brussels... Yes so being in the EEU has its perks, but more recently id say disadvantages outway everything else.

Screw the EEU lets have our indipendence back

[r0lan6]

Re: Can i have a dozen eggs.....erm no you cant

I agree completely with your point. Biggest mistake was joining. Even our newly established Supreme Court remains second only to the EU Court of Human Rights. We can't even call our chocolate milk chocolate anymore. So glad we kept our own currency though.

We need to get the government to opt out of the European Union, wont be long now and we will be talking another language as everything British is being over ruled by Brussels... Yes so being in the EEU has its perks, but more recently id say disadvantages outway everything else.

Screw the EEU lets have our indipendence back

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[captain duff]

Well actually the independance side of things doesn't bother me so much as the sort of EU it has become. I actually like being 'european', and I like europe, not least because the standard and way of life is more often than not a hell of a lot better than in the UK - for example no other country has such a massive (and growing) gap between rich and poor than us (although there is still much to admire about the UK - pubs for one thing).

So for me the problem isn't in greater european unity (not least because for the first time in centuries we have a lasting peace in europe - something people too often forget), but in the undemocratic nature of the EU set-up (too many unelected bureaucrats with too much power), and the fact that recent treaties and stronger powers have all been about becoming a bosses and bankers europe rather than a 'peoples' europe.

Essentially though the 'independance' line founders due to the fact that very little power lays in any elected body anymore, be that the Uk parliament or the euro one - the current financial cisis has shown that real power is all in the unelected boardrooms and money markets, and unless that aspect is tackled then whether 'power' lays in westminster of brussels ultimately makes bugger all difference in my view...

[G-man]

This chatter is all well and fine by all of us but I think it soon time to roll up our sleeves and get busy KAATNP. We are the ones who elect these monsters into office and we are the same one's that can control the next election. We should listen with our hearts and know whats best for us and forget about what party we favor and maybe put a unknown into office that has the balls to stand up and be counted.

* KAATNP=(Kick ass and take no prisoners)

[daverave999]

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/06/28/dozen-eggs-banned-yes-they-did-make-it-up/

[eggopp]

AArrrrgggghhhh im gullable

[Lee Nub]

Strange, it was on the Bloomberg tickertapes yesterday as being fact. I hope it is just rubbish.


Thats a great website by the way.

[captain duff]

Well in all fairness, much as I hate the Daily Mail (and in my eyes a paper that cheered on Franco, Mussolini and Hitler in the '30s is never going to win any prizes), the link that started this thread wasn't from the Mail (or even the Torygraph), but the Scotsman. And it is true in terms of weights being displayed - and personally I never for one minute assumed that this would mean that packaging couldn't at the same time say 6 or 12 etc. And however you look at it this will be a complete ball-ache and expense, in particular for smaller producers who I'm sure now don't actually weigh the eggs now, but just see what sized whole guage they fit through to determine small, med and large...

Anyway, lots of lovely EU myths so exist of course, many are so regular that for many people they have become indisputable fact - here's a list the BBC sompiled a couple of years ago: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6481969.stm

[daverave999]

Thats a great website by the way.

The libcon one? I subscribe to their twitter feed for the occasional interesting article.

[tupacboy]

i blame obama

[Lee Nub]

The libcon one? I subscribe to their twitter feed for the occasional interesting article.

Yes , I enjoyed reading through it. Great site.