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All you need to know about European Bureaucracy
Posted: 21 Sep 2011, 20:52
by GHD
Pythagorean Theorem (Euclid Version) is just 22 words
The Lords Prayer (King James Version) is 66 words
Archimedes Principal is 67 words
The 10 Commandments 179 words
The Gettysburg Address is 286 words
The U.S.Declaration of Independence is 1300 words
The U.S.Constitution (with all 27 Amendments) is 7,818 words
THE EU REGULATIONS ON THE SALE OF CABBAGES IS 26,911 WORDS !!!!
You couldn't make it up, could you?
Re: All you need to know about European Bureaucracy
Posted: 21 Sep 2011, 22:15
by Garry Russell
I can quite believe it
Re: All you need to know about European Bureaucracy
Posted: 21 Sep 2011, 22:34
by AllanL
Look, just eat your greens. You know it did a power of good for Garry's avatar.
When Greece, Italy and Ireland go belly up and drag us all down the pan with them, we will be glad of the paperwork to burn to keep us warm. Then you can start into the renewable energy regulations, they should keep us warm until the recession is over.
Re: All you need to know about European Bureaucracy
Posted: 21 Sep 2011, 22:59
by Tomliner
You couldn't make it up, could you?
You don't need to.Certain countries are going t!ts up despite what the so called European leaders say.Those politicians are only interested in saving their faces ,careers and political ideology.The worst offending countries have borrowed way beyond their ability to repay and spent like there is no tomorrow and now the gravy train has derailed.Tough Sh!t,just don't drag us down with you.
EricT
Re: All you need to know about European Bureaucracy
Posted: 22 Sep 2011, 09:21
by emfrat
Not long ago, I had a look round the 'Net for similar EU nonsense and found Brussels had required a manufacturer to provide a 22-page User's Manual with every pair of gumboots he sold...
Everything they do seems to add massive costs to the simplest things.
MikeW
Re: All you need to know about European Bureaucracy
Posted: 22 Sep 2011, 18:13
by Vancouver
Sadly beaurocrats have no sense of irony and cannot see the problem here.
Re: All you need to know about European Bureaucracy
Posted: 23 Sep 2011, 00:36
by steelsporran
Tomliner wrote:Tough Sh!t,just don't drag us down with you.
EricT
That's what we're saying down here.
Re: All you need to know about European Bureaucracy
Posted: 23 Sep 2011, 04:30
by jonesey2k
Grrrr! I hate the EU!
Re: All you need to know about European Bureaucracy
Posted: 23 Sep 2011, 08:45
by GHD
Gumboots? They're called wellies round here
Re: All you need to know about European Bureaucracy
Posted: 24 Sep 2011, 10:34
by Nigel H-J
To think that when we joined it was called the 'Common Market' now it is nothing short of an EU 'Gravy Train' for those overpaid over expensed MPs' - enough said!!
Nigel.