Bloody EU wants to ban cheese and yogurt! (or does it?)

[doodab]

We wouldn't have food labelling if we were outside the EU?????

Quite possibly not. We didn't used to have it, and the requirements and minimum standards it has to meet were introduced under the auspices of the EU

[Flashman]

How much influence do you think Britain should have in an organisation of 28 countries? Do you think Britain is inherently superior and all the other should just fall in line with us and be grateful?

Eh? I don't think we should have a common government with 28 other countries at all.

[Flashman]

European Commission in the UK – Euromyths and Letters to the Editor » Blog Archive » No, Mail on Sunday, the EU is (obviously) not banning yogurt and cheese from school dinners

Yes listen to the EU trolls instead.

EU to set up euro-election 'troll patrol' to tackle Eurosceptic surge - Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph has seen confidential spending proposals and internal documents planning an unprecedented propaganda blitz ahead of and during European elections in June 2014.

Key to a new strategy will be "public opinion monitoring tools" to "identify at an early stage whether debates of political nature among followers in social media and blogs have the potential to attract media and citizens' interest".

Spending on "qualitative media analysis" is to be increased by £1.7 million and while most of the money is to be found in existing budgets an additional £787,000 will be need to be raised next year despite calls for EU spending to reflect national austerity.

"Particular attention needs to be paid to the countries that have experienced a surge in Euroscepticism," said a confidential document agreed last year.

[petergriffin]

On the EU, if they had just gone more slowly and gradually relaxed migration rules as the economies in the East began to match our own, made sure that migrants integrated better, far more would be in favour of it.

You have to blame Tony Blair for that, not the EU. Under the EU rules national states have eight years' time to allow new EU countries' citizens in their labour market. Tony Blair decided it was ok to allow all the Poles in straight away. Other countries have done so in 2012 only.

It would have been very different if the government had decided to wait maybe 4-5 years, but instead the damage was done. So it wasn't the EU dictat but a sovereign choice, backed up by popular vote (9.5M votes for Labour in 2005).