The severe threat posed by Christmas crackers

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EU really is crackers, says Bloom

"Year after year children are severely wounded by indiscriminate pulling of Christmas crackers" said Godfrey Bloom MEP today. "That is absurd of course, but seems to be the thinking behind the application of a European Directive." The regulation, The Pyrotechnic Articles (Safety) Regulations 2010 transpose into UK law European Directive 2007/23 on the placing on the market of pyrotechnic articles.

"What this means in practice is that retailers have to demand ID from customers wanting to buy crackers and nobody under the age of 16 will be able to buy crackers. The British Retail Consortium (BRC) describes the rules as 'particularly daft', said Bloom.

"They are too kind. The rules are ruddy stupid.

"They seem to assume that everybody is an idiot, that nobody is safe and that every 10-year-old is a budding Guy Fawkes hoarding Christmas crackers in an attempt to blow up the House of Commons in an apocalyptic cataclysm of bad jokes and paper hats.

"I wish it were true but, sadly, this is just another example of the moronic British application of nannying EU rules.

"They will not rest until each of us is a dribbling incompetent, incapable of deciding what is and what isn't in our own interest.

"Here's an idea. Trust people to make decisions based on facts as they are presented, rather than employ armies of busybodies to check on the activities of innocent children and storekeepers," said Bloom.

Both in the European Union and in our own government we are run by complete nutcases, the dull legislation can be read via the link if anybody wants to - but this is just another example of busybodies interferring in people's lives, business and just rides over common sense.

But then again I guess they have to justify(?) their large salaries and golded plated pensions.

Thoughts?