Absolutely Peter....in a nut shell....spot on. Of course the reason they get away with it is that the various bodies who should be enforcing these regulations now have a ready made excuse for doing nothing. They are told by the legions of muddle minded do gooders and politically correct ding bats who have spread their insanity from Brussels to infect the whole of Europe....that it is wrong to single out any ethnic group, nationality....or pretty well anyone else you care to name...and accuse them of any wrongdoing, or of being responsible for anything. It would seem that now, even if you catch someone in the act of wrongdoing, you cannot take them to task for their actions, because that would be infringing on their 'human rights'
If you will allow me to digress slightly here, there were three items in the news the other day that demonstrate what I am saying about the madness that is Brussels and the EU....and the reaction to them highlighted at last the long awaited dawning of understanding within our politicians that it is time to say no.
Brussels have muted plans to levy new taxes on the British pensions systems, with vague ideas of taxing the payments made into pensions at the outset, and then taxing them again as they mature. The idea is to pour the billions thus raised into the economies of the EU countries who have proved to be incompetent at running their own affairs (such as Ireland, Greece etc.) to keep them afloat....the very same countries we have already bailed out once! The cost of those first bail outs the government now admits equaled pretty much all the billions saved by the cuts in our economy that they imposed...those cuts that are squeezing the worst off of us to death at this moment
The second was a response by Brussels to grumblings about the fact that we, the British tax payers, have to fork out millions every year to support the families of EU people living/working in this country. It seems that if such a person comes here to work, we immediately have to pay (or soon will, I can't recall which) child allowances etc. to that persons family, even though the recipients are still living at home in that persons home country
It seems Brussels intend to reinforce and even extend that regulation...
Lastly, a rather nasty Muslim religious instructor was recently found guilty of various acts of encouraging and supporting terrorism, supplying funding for terrorist training etc., and as a result was quite rightly banned from entering Britain, where he had intended to tour our local mosques to spread his evil. When this person decided to ignore this ban and come here anyway, he was arrested by customs and held for deportation processes to be enacted to return him from whence he came. As ever, this person appealed, and the ruling of the appeal court is that 'Although the initial judgement on this person, and the consequent decision to ban him from Britain were correct and just'....we now have to pay this individual as yet undecided sums in compensation....because we 'Failed to explain clearly or soon enough WHY he had been detained'
I gather that even old opponents of British policy, such as Germany and France, have now joined in at protesting at some of the crazy rules and new regulations recently handed down by the EU, or forced upon our legal system by diktats from the EU, many of which seem to be specifically aimed at Britain.
Perhaps there is light at the end of the tunnel? However, I for one shall not hold my breath while we wait
Sorry for the long whinge....I just get so fed up with the ever increasing madness of the EU, which seems intent on making us the milk cow for the rest of Europe...and determined to force us to stand still in silence and take it, by imposing this very manufactured madness called 'political correctness' into every corner of our lives....including the original point involving our fish (if you can remember back that far
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Cheers, Dave.
