Posts tagged with ‘EU’

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Zebu review of the year – part 3

January 4, 2010

A ROUND-UP OF THE MOST GLARING, RIDICULOUS AND EGREGIOUS LIES, DECEPTION AND BULLSHIT OF 2009
Zebu OrganisationsRoyal Mail clearly deserve to be singled out for their “Sorry You Were Out” cards, pushed through letterboxes, whether people are out or not. Initially, facing an imminent strike, Royal Mail’s less-than-stellar management maintained that this hardly ever happened and [...]

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Zebu review of the year – part 2

January 3, 2010

A ROUND-UP OF THE MOST GLARING, RIDICULOUS AND EGREGIOUS LIES, DECEPTION AND BULLSHIT OF 2009
Zebu OrganisationsBritish Telecom make the list, primarily for telling the villagers of Hambledon in Oxfordshire that it was impossible to provide them with broadband. That might not have been so difficult to live with, had they not then discovered that BT [...]

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Zebu review of the year – part 1

January 2, 2010

A ROUND-UP OF THE MOST GLARING, RIDICULOUS AND EGREGIOUS LIES, DECEPTION AND BULLSHIT OF 2009
Zebu OrganisationsCouncil are high on many people’s hate lists. They’re happy to take our money but rather less happy to provide us with the corresponding services. Thanet Council deserve special mention for their “recycling” services after a Margate resident videoed dustmen [...]

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The staggering cost of EU regulations

December 23, 2009

What is the point of regulation? It’s a question that is not asked often enough. Ignoring the obvious, sceptical response, surely the answer must be that regulations are intended to improve the lives and conditions of the citizens in whose names they are being enacted.
Open Europe is, according to The Guardian, an independent thinktank committed [...]

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Why our food might be filthier than we think

December 3, 2009

According to Ohio University researchers, every American eats about “a pound or two of insects every year…ground up into tiny pieces in such items as strawberry jams, peanut butter, spaghetti sauce, applesauce, frozen chopped broccoli, etc.” The FDA regulates what they call “filth” in food. It permits, for instance, one maggot or five fly eggs [...]

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It isn’t only the lightbulbs that are dim

November 19, 2009

Finally, we have confirmation that the new-style CFL lightbulbs are not as bright as the incandescent bulbs we must replace them with. Despite the fact that we could hardly help notice that they are significantly dimmer, give out a muddier light and take ages to warm up, Environment Minister Dan Norris and umpteen government websites [...]

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European Union auditors fail to sign off the accounts – for the 15th year

November 10, 2009

For the 15th year in a row, the European Court of Auditors have felt unable to sign off the accounts of the EU. This is apparently largely down to serious errors in regional and rural development aid, which accounts for over a third of the Community’s budget.
In a break with tradition, Spain, Italy and Portugal [...]

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What a shower

October 29, 2009

Despite the furore over our own MPs’ expenses, the far more staggering amounts of taxpayers’ money sprayed at EU officials largely goes unremarked upon. It may be further away than Westminster, but a considerable proportion of it is still our money.
Only thanks to France’s Court of Accounts (Les juridictions financières) have we been able to [...]