Thursday, 5 January 2012

Give Them Enough Rope

Here are some things that should be more widely known:

Goodbye Sale of Goods Act, 1979. Hello Common European Sales Law

French farmers will have to pay to use their own seeds. Can't see that going down too well but at least they won't be burning live animals in protest this time.

If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we'll stop your benefits. The result of the legalisation of prostitution in Germany.

Make good use of your water butts while you have them: Collecting and using rainwater is illegal in Utah. It's only surprising if you've never heard of Agenda 21.

BBC Financial Statement 2010-2011. See how they take the EU's shilling - and have been doing so since, at least, 1972.

Germany & France send political players to ECB Executive Board

We've certainly given them enough rope and I wonder how long that rope has to be before the Great British public decide it's long enough to do a good job.

5 comments:

  1. Sod the bloody rope - its now 'piano wire time'!

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  2. What is the 'optional' element in the Common European Sales Law?

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  3. That's a good compilation, can you tell me on what page of the BBC accounts it says they get funding from the EU?

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  4. Captain HaddockJan 6, 2012 12:40 AM

    "What is the 'optional' element in the Common European Sales Law" ?

    I suspect that in the case of UK it will be fully, legally binding in every respect ..

    Whilst the French (and others) will continue to please themselves as to whether they take any notice of it ..

    In short .. same old shit .. only the date has changed ..

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  5. Mark, p83 references the loans from theEIB. There's also more here on UK Parliament and here (FoI request, which is less than the full truth).

    We might also ask ourselves why this government and the BBC are co-funding a project like this - so-called Predator tracking - with the EU.

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