Forget straight bananas, banning coffee machines and bagpipes, and mandating toys for pigs: Mr Gove has made up a new porker about the EU. He recently claimed that we could only sell one pig's ear per pig to China as the other one had a tag in it (maybe he meant the other one had bells on it...). He obviously blamed the EU for this barmy regulation - a barmy regulation he made up. For he made a pig's ear of this, clearly not understanding the actual regulation which says that an ear tag or a shoulder tattoo ("slap-marking" - no, not "slapper-marking") may be used.
The irony is that it is Brexit that threatens our pork exports to China. That export deal was finalised after seven years of negotiations and rests on EU regulations and EU law.
Oh well, at least we will be giving £350 million a week to the NHS,
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