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It is estimated that something north of eighty per cent of Britain's laws and regulations originate in a European Union treaty or directive. I don't much like this idea. Tough Cheese.

I did not vote for the oligarchs of the Commission. Neither did I vote for some of the less than savoury members of some of the governments in other European countries. I cannot vote any of these people out. I don't want them legislating in my country, but they do. Tough Cheese.

I am legally bound to obey the laws they force my government to introduce, whether it wants to or not, and whether a majority in my country wants it - or hates it. Tough Cheese.

I am a law abiding sort of soul. But I really, really don't like any of this. Tough Cheese.

We can vote out our government if we want to. But there is nothing, NOTHING, we can do about a law that a majority of other countries in the EU wants to introduce, even if it goes against everything we hold dear. With a few, very few, exceptions (and the House of Lords thinks they may not survive the European Court) we have to accept it here, too. Tough Cheese.

Did I mention that I don't like this idea?

Almost worst than this, our own government will never admit, unless someone starts extracting their teeth, that a measure they are introducing has come from the EU.

Bad form, you see. It's not 'Don't mention the war'. It's 'Don't mention the EU'.

Well, Tough Cheese - this blog will mention it.

Tough Cheese will blog Alerts to EU interference in the governance of Britain - some of the ways in which Brussels is dictating to us. Just to let the buggers know that we know.

If you have details of any British law, regulation or quangoid measures being imposed from Brussels, please let Tough Cheese know. Keep it brief. Like this:

POST OFFICE CLOSURES
It's Brussels that's closing your post office.
We wouldn't have to close our rural post offices if we wanted to keep them open, if it weren't for Brussels making the British government remove the core money-making activities from the Post Office and put them out to tender. There's no way the PO can compete with cost-cutting comemrcial organisations, so bang go the services. With those profits gone there is no way your Post Office can survive, no matter how hard your local Postmaster works and no matter how devotedly you support the shop.

Restraint of trade? Employment law? Health and safety? Which British law covers it? Does the root of the problem lie in Brussels? Then send an Alert to Tough Cheese. But please keep it brief!

As for the Lisbon Treaty... Gordon Brown's despicable government has lied and lied and lied about it, despite our hearing with our own ears and reading with our own eyes the words of the leaders of most other European countries who all agree it is the Constitution - and celebrate the fact. They even say, in the clearest possible terms, that the Lisbon Treaty was designed to obfuscate in order to fool the peoples of Europe who objected to the Constitutional Treaty. You know, the one the French and the Danes threw out. The British government's denials in this regard are insulting.

Still, it's happening. We are governed by liars. For now. We move on.

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