EU rules.

[cee-dee]

The EU bureaucrats are flexing their muscles again:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36200778

Just to be clear, I am not and never have been a smoker but when looking at the current cigarette packets, I wonder if alcohol packaging will, before long have a similar "message"?

[baybizz]

>> #19: It has come to our attention that people are breathing in fresh air...

"Many a true word is spoken in jest...

>> The UK government must prepare and consult with the public on a new air quality plan aimed at meeting EU nitrogen dioxide limits...the UK government must prepare and consult on new air quality plans under article 23(1), for submission to the European Commission... the Court of Justice of the European Union judgement leaves no doubt as the seriousness of the breach...

http://www.airqualitynews.com/2015/04/29/supreme-court-orders-new-uk-air-quality-plan/

Of course we'll jump, if you say so, Lord EU.  How high?...

 

[baybizz]

>> The problem with satirical articles like that is that they could end just as easily end with "by order of the U.K. government.  I have no more say over edicts coming from one than I do the other...

I hope you do not really believe that you have "no more say over edicts coming from" the elected UK government than from the unelected European Union.

>> EU policies suffer to an alarming degree from a lack of democracy... Germany's state of parliamentary democracy is under threat from the European Union, which is slowly taking away all the national parliament's powers, the country's ex-president said...

https://euobserver.com/institutional/23250

[upthecreekyetagain]

I don't imagine the Brexit campaign will be using that ruling as an example of the EU interfering in UK policies 

[upthecreekyetagain]

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@baybizz wrote:

>> The problem with satirical articles like that is that they could end just as easily end with "by order of the U.K. government.  I have no more say over edicts coming from one than I do the other...

I hope you do not really believe that you have "no more say over edicts coming from" the elected UK government than from the unelected European Union.

>> EU policies suffer to an alarming degree from a lack of democracy... Germany's state of parliamentary democracy is under threat from the European Union, which is slowly taking away all the national parliament's powers, the country's ex-president said...

https://euobserver.com/institutional/23250

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Of course I do - I have just one voice amongst millions - mine, yours nor anyone else's views count for a jot when it comes down to it - we are governed by a party system in this country not a representative democracy and most people seem more than happy to cede their votes to a party rather than someone who will truly represent them or the majority of the electorate.

[Anonymous]

Exactly my thoughts as well.