Just what will EU bureaucrats do next ?
It's being reported that their latest interference in our lives involves banning the most widely used weed killer in the UK. It seems that there is disagreement amongst member nations with 19 countries, including the UK, wanting to carry on using glyphosate based products, Italy and France opposed and Germany and 6 more planning to abstain from any vote. Apparently, the effect of this mixture of opinions is that the EU licence to market such products, which is due to expire on 30th June, will not be renewed and sale of them will be illegal after that date.
It's reported that there are certain health concerns about glyphosate, specifically that it may be carcinogenic. This view has been formed after experiments with mice, although the World Health Organisation has said that the danger to humans in minimal. Typically, experiments to determine the risks associated with any chemicals are assessed by feeding huge quantities to animals such as mice and observing the effects, often making their relevance to humans questionable. Nonetheless, the EU may well ban the use of glyphosate weed killers, including the very widely used 'Roundup' either by a positive vote to do so or by the inability of member states to agree what to do. Either way, the licence to market these products would expire on 30th June.
Regardless, what on earth can the EU have to do with deciding what weed killers are available in the UK or any other country ? My use of a weed killer in my garden cannot possibly be any business of EU officials; if the stuff is dangerous, it should be for our own government to say so and act accordingly, not for some distant bureaucrats to tell me that I can't use it, even though my own government sees no problem.
Do we really want this type of dictatorship, imposed by unaccountable and faceless bureaucrats in offices hundreds, and even thousands, of miles away ? I don't. VOTE LEAVE !!
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