A Horse! A Horse!
In which Flurry dyes a hunter and smuggles it across the border as a 'ringer' for the favourite in the point-to-point, evading EC78/245 'Movement of equine livestock (marking, tagging and chipping) cross-border trade Directive'
The Dispensary Doctor
When Finn is caught with a poached salmon by the Gardai he protests that as the fish had swum from Northern Ireland it was an alien species that had violated EU phytosanitary controls by failing to claim asylum status at the border. Whilst the case was referred to the authorities in Brussels the fish was eaten by Dr O'Rourke, to whom it had been passed for retention as evidence by the Gardai.
Oweneen the Sprat
A car from the north has an accident near Galway - but is not fitted with Winter tyres in accordance with Directive EC 86/294. It damages a tractor being used by Oweneen the Sprat but he refuses to exchange insurance details as the land he was working was being claimed as set-aside under the CAP. Instead he demands that Sergeant O'Connor lock the motorists up until they pay in cash - but he is wary of their Article 8 Human Rights
The Muse in Skebawn
zzzz OK that's enough whimsy
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12 comments:
Are you by any chance suggesting that the typical Eton-educated Tory has an intimate empathy with the Irish mind, then Raedwald?
But I'm not sure why this court ruling is such a big deal to you types. At most it is only to decide whether the political life of the nation should carry on as normal or remain in obviously contrived suspense.
But I forget. You are absolutists. And symbolists.
I think Peter Hitchens had a good take on this in his mail on Sunday column.
The EU is done. It's failed. It's over. It's just how much damage is it going to do in its dying.
If Boris wins, will they take any notice. If they win, will he? (I'm not talking about how the Brussels Bitches Collective will report it).
I think what is becoming apparent, is that the only real leverage the EU has over its satrapies is the threat of economic sanction against those in the Euro. What else can it really do? And even that? Nobody in the phone box move or I'll pull the pin on the grenade!
The "legal" framework has been so utterly debased by decades of French and German hypocrisy and the cynicism of everybody else.
If the court makes a political declaration are they all going to come storming back from their rip roaringly vital and successful conferences and have an election?
Who knows, remainiacs then might even answer a question I for one would like an answer to: stay in what?
PS I'm not sure that's whimsy Radders!
"The euro will be dead and buried by Christmas 2012" - Nigel Farage.
One element which has been overlooked by commenters is the further constitutional damage that a ruling against the Scottish court would have for the already parlous state of the UK's Union.
Rather more parlous that that of the European Union, most fair-minded folk would say, I think.
Most people seem to think that the Scottish court opinion was flawed, to put it mildly. I think that whatever verdict the Supreme Court hands down somebody is going to claim it’s the end of the world as we know it.
Just looking at the Labour Party conference is both frightening and amusing. Starmers latest wheeze, reduce the voting age to 16 and include EU nationals in a referendum vote is a cracker. Boris keeps refusing to do a deal with Farage, which means I suppose he is trying to re heat Mays WA. Oh dear if things go on at this rate Boris will be unable to do a deal with Farage because he will be toast.
It would be quite amusing if Boris won the Supreme Court case and then ended up in court over the funding of the blonde ex model with a pole dancing kit in her flat, according to the Sunday Times. What can Boris have seen of her economic development?
The Euro IS dead but not buried. It's a zombie currency and like a zombie plague it's tearing the guts out of the Eurozone.
It was flawed from the start. Jaques Delors himself said so in a 2011 interview (reported in the telegraph december 2011). The weaknesses of many of the participating countries (screamingly obvious at the time) were wilfully ignored. Delors calls this an "error" but it wasn't. They believed they could ignore economics. Well they can't.
If Scotland wants to leave the UK, all it has to do is hold another referendum and we will respect the result. What they do after that is up to them.
There was no "project fear" when they had their referendum and there wouldn't be again.
@ Mark
"The EU is done. It's failed. It's over. It's just how much damage is it going to do in its dying."
The view isn't great. Empires rise and decline - the decline is rarely spectacular but usually wibbly wobbly on a downward trend. Germany and France are in a wibbly wobbly economic situation at the moment, Italy has always been in a wibbly wobbly state, and the UK is leaving. The 4 main contributors are fading away...
We are better off out.
If Gina Miller loses at the unSupreme Court, will she go straight to the UCJ ? Ironic, huh ?
And, if we leave on 31/10, will we still be in the EEA on 1/11 ?
For the love of God, the pivotal case is not Miller's.
It is Cherry's, the Scottish one, Dadad1.
No the UK will not be in the EEA unless it agrees before then to be a member. Where have you been?
Why do you vote on anything, if you haven't a clue?
The markets seem rather more confident in the euro than in sterling, Mark
The markets seem rather more confident in the euro than in sterling
Uhm, bollocks
Before the prorogation and SC case sterling was down at about €1.08 for long time - it's now up to €1.13 and climbing.
Dadad, well, the Court didn't even need to consider the Scottish case as MIller's was allowed!
Have a pint of the finest ale of Merrie England!
So we can have an election now?
It looks like the millionaires and billionaires have won and democracy is over. We move to democracy for the people that can buy legal interference in government affairs.
Now those that fear a Corbyn Government have hope: all you have to do to stop Corbyn and McDonald's policies like re-nationalisation would be for shareholders in the private utilities and rail companies to take a Corbyn government to court.
Basically if you dislike government policy and have enough money, just take them to court.
Why bother voting at all now? It doesn't matter if you poor person voter a representative party into power, the elite have the money to stymie any and all policies if this is allowed to stand legally.
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