Democracy, Democracy, Bananas

[SirGalahad]

https://twitter.com/JonnyPrinceC/status/1103641489513631744

What is it with plumbers and Brexit and myths.

 

[durhamplumber]

https://twitter.com/JonnyPrinceC/status/1103641489513631744

What is it with plumbers and Brexit and myths.

What is it with your brexit fixation???

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Love it. about 1 minute into the video, David, a Leave voter, when asked what EU regulations affected his life he said he didn't like being dictated to and told he had to have straight bananas.

Typical TAS quitling.

 

[EFLImpudence]

I am sure that one of them calling a radio station last week ended up saying "Well, yeah, but facts don't prove anything, do they?".

 

[SirGalahad]

I am sure that one of them calling a radio station last week ended up saying "Well, yeah, but facts don't prove anything, do they?".

By making it acceptable to reject experts and facts anything based on a flimsy proposal can be accepted such as the rise in the anti vaccs movement or Brexit.

 

[EddieM]

Yeah ok, but what say would be your qualms for instance about eating chlorinated chick for example? (I wouldn't BTW) Trouble is the reasons are not what a lot of people possibly think they are.

 

[SirGalahad]

I would not but then what are the labelling requirements for food that contain chicken?

 

[Bosswhite]

I would not but then what are the labelling requirements for food that contain chicken?

Currently Labelling requirements have to comply with EU regulations, Leave the EU then we have to accept whatever another Country throws at us and deems fit for consumption .

 

[securespark]

What is it with your brexit fixation???

Christ. Are you seriously telling me there's a pair of Brexits?

 

[sodthisforfun]

Currently Labelling requirements have to comply with EU regulations, Leave the EU then we have to accept whatever another Country throws at us and deems fit for consumption .

Are we not able to make our own regs about what is acceptable? I didn't realise that leaving the EU meant that we'd be eating sweepings off the abattoir floor without any say at all...

 

[SirGalahad]

Are we not able to make our own regs about what is acceptable? I didn't realise that leaving the EU meant that we'd be eating sweepings off the abattoir floor without any say at all...

Be warned.

https://www.cieh.org/media/blog/2018/7-threats-to-food-safety-after-brexit/

7. Food labelling
US food labelling standards provide consumers with far less information than is the case in the EU. Unfortunately, representatives from the US have told our Government that in any US-UK trade deal, the UK should be obliged to accept food that complies with current US legislation and regulations.

This is why the argument that as long as people know its chlorinated they can chose unfortunately they may not know.


This is bad news for food safety after Brexit, as in the US and across the rest of the world, chlorine washes are used not only on vegetables and poultry but also on fish, fruit and non-leafy vegetables. This might account for why the rate of food poisoning in the US is approximately 10 times higher than in the UK.

 

[sodthisforfun]

Lucky for me, I don't eat meat or fish.

Said on the article though
"While the chlorine isn’t toxic at the levels being used, US processing plants rely solely on it because their other hygiene standards are so poor. EU rules dictate that food manufacturers should focus on overall hygiene to eliminate microorganisms, instead of using a single chemical decontamination step. After Brexit, however, UK consumers won’t know whether imported US chicken has been through chlorination unless it is either voluntarily declared or declaration is made legally compulsory".

So chlorine is not toxic at those levels (doesn't sound nice though I admit), and we could make the declaration a legal requirement for our own country. This is what I mean, are the UK not allowed to make any of it's own requirements when trading with other countries?

 

[JohnD]

Are we not able to make our own regs about what is acceptable? I didn't realise that leaving the EU meant that we'd be eating sweepings off the abattoir floor without any say at all...

When a mighty nation like the USA negotiates a trade deal with some minor country, their approach is "we fax them our terms and tell them where to sign."

So if dUK wants to sell cars, or steel, it will have to agree to chlorinated chicken, hormone-swollen beef, open-season on the NHS, British banks obeying American laws.

Only a large, strong and united bloc like the EU can negotiate with the US on equal terms. Trump found the concept difficult to grasp. He is used to little people rolling over and doing what they're told. He is very much in favour of UK leaving the EU. "America First!" he trumps.

As a major member of the EU we have representation and votes. We help to make the rules.

After our resignation, we will still have to obey the rules if we want to sell goods and services to our ex-partner.

But we will be a rule-taker not a rule-maker.

We will never have a vote in the US Congress.

This is what Brexers call "taking back control."

 

[transam]

Food standards

Blimey a while back it was reckoned that most of the population had been infected with BSE

Yep that was the UK / EU deciding it was a jolly good idea to feed cattle ect with scrambled sheeps brains and other offal from the meat industry

Than we had pigs fed on sewage pellets

Now the UK and EU think they can occupy the moral high ground when it comes to grub standards

 

[transam]

Blimey the EU have got some nerve to pontificate about farming standards

Animal welfare standards ect

Bunch of w*****s