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How many times in the last 20 years or have you said that the EU is on the edge of collapse ?

It was just nonsense when you started and is no different now.

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A bit of a chuckle...

Americans see Brexit as a reckoning – and boy are they enjoying it

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This one for green bananas. The rest you can find here reg 543/2011. There is no requirement with regards to odd forms. Products need to be intact though. Only if you want to classify your produce as class 1 or 2 there are requirements with regards to shape which have to be met. So in theory there is no problem to sell odd shaped products. Nobody wants to buy them though. That is why they go into processing or the farmers leave them on the fields and plow them (natural manure).

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Isn't the problem that consumers have just become too fussy for no good reason. All the above regulations to go through just to sell a bunch of bananas!! Those on low incomes would surely prefer just lower prices, to buy from 'markets' rather than supermarkets?

What do the regulations mean by "practically free" from pests, visible foreign matter, bruising etc. not very specific.

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The purpose, in case it's not obvious to you, is to define what makes something "premium" quality. Otherwise, everything sold would be sold as "premium", even if it's the crappiest excuse for fruit & veg on the planet.

Take the leave campaign, for the example. No regulation allowed them to make patently false claims on the tin with impunity. And by all accounts, that swindle has far worse consequences than any 4th rate banana.

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Yep, I think that the consumer is a bit spoiled. And that is the main reason why it is so difficult to sell these products. I was just pointing out that the law isn't the problem here.

How can you be specific with fresh produce? There is always some variation in fresh products - it is nature. You can't control it. What would it mean if you write "free of foreign matters"? It is extremely difficult to clean fresh produce completely. Do you want to destroy every salate were you find a spot of dirt?

These EU regulations are also in line with the Codex and other international regulation such as the UNECE norms.

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JUNCKER BACKLASH: 83,000 back economist’s calls for EU resignation | City & Business | Finance | Express.co.uk

"EUROPEAN Commission president Jean Claude Junker is facing a massive backlash in France over his involvement in the Lux Leaks scandal raging in his native state.

Mr Juncker flew to London yesterday to have dinner at 10 Downing Street with British Prime Minister Theresa May but left stony-faced.

He has repeatedly threatened the citizens of the United Kingdom and made outrageous Brexit demands since the country voted to leave the EU in June last year.

Mr Juncker currently earns more than €300,00-a-year for his position as president of the commission as well as a bonus of 15 per cent plus a massive pension.

But he has repeatedly failed to step in to help as countries like Greece, Italy and Spain which are crumbling over the debt burdens placed on them after they joined the euro.

Pensioners have been out campaigning on the streets in their tens of thousands as they face cuts while Mr Juncker jets around member states failing to provide any solutions."


The Eu already knew fine well that he was as bent as a three quid note when they chose him.

Which begs the question, Is that why they chose him ?

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Dick is like the spotty faced teenager who always thinks that it is he who breaks up with girls despite overwhelming evidence and public knowledge to the contrary.
In Dick's mind it was the population of the 27 other members who held a referendum to leave the UK, stupid foreigners.
In Dick's mind it's not the fault of he who runs up a huge debt, spend s like a crazy person with never any intention of paying anything back but rather it's the fault of those who lend the money.

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**Quoting Dick's thought process rather than any particular post, of which there are thousands to choose from.

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You mean just as you choose to throw around insults, rather than give a cohesive reply or discuss how the Eu has got itself into such a Godawful mess. ;)

:nod:

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I know it sounds ludicrous now, but I'm willing to bet a tenner that sometime within the next decade or so, the whole anti-EU, pro-Brexit mantra will become one of those topics that becomes socially tacky and distasteful, like say, Jimmy Savile. And for those few who still have any memory of now, will be unsurprised to see Dick ranting on about how idiotic and "undemocratic" the whole Brexit thing was, and blabber endlessly about who's to blame for it.

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Just as the Eu is about to become, you mean ?

:rofl:

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:flypig:

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So which one is that, Junkers or Merkel ?

:rofl:

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Voting in a legally held referendum, for a country to leave a particular trade organisation. To regain supremacy (in total) of its judicial system. To have freedom to make free trade agreements with non-EU countries, to have equal immigration rules not related to nationality. You equate with the topic of Jimmy Savile????
I think the latter was rather more than "tacky and distasteful" topic.

Whether Brexit was the wrong decision or not will be seen in the future, but at least start negotiations before constantly expecting/hoping? Brexit will fail.