Duncan : Bruno, can I ask a question?
Why on earth do you insist on doing these stupid “bendy banana” style stories? Why is your writing style on this blog more akin to a UKIP member than to a serious journalist?
There are plenty of things which are genuinely wrong with the EU and a lot of good would be done if journalists addressed those issues and wrote about them in an objective manner and provided genuine constructive criticism. But no – let’s write about anoraks instead, let’s bring up the bogeyman of health and safety yet again instead of focusing on real issues.
Put bluntly, these kind of articles and the attitudes of people who read them uncritically make me genuinely embarrassed to be British.

Yet you fail to point out what’s “wrong with the EU” that’s more worthy of reportage, instead resorting to nothing but rhetorical statements.

This is very worthy of being pointed out. Onerous regulation upon regulation for no reason whatsoever — and especially for false reasons — means that the EU intends to wield power instead of protect its citizens. It is also a bigger indicator of how much control the EU has over the global market, by forcing conformity to an arbitrary standard not based on anything, never mind any kind of scientific data (which is not cited, presuming its existence). If you cannot see what the political ramifications of this are, then perhaps you need to read some history books.

Mr Waterfield is the reporter; you are not. What are your journalistic qualifications that give you the moral high ground of what to post on a blog or write for a newspaper? Instead, you attack while suggesting no alternative. You make comparisons with the UKIP without considering what validity might be to them (a party that has raised its profile in the recent EU election, to boot); perhaps you should worry more about the genuine dangerous presences in the EU, such as Berlusconi’s neo-Fascists, Germany’s NDP, Austria and Hungary’s neo-Nazis, and even the BNP (who got a seat on the EP)? Perhaps you have always been ashamed of being British…?

Why on earth do you insist on doing these stupid “bendy banana” style stories? Why is your writing style on this blog more akin to a UKIP member than to a serious journalist?

There are plenty of things which are genuinely wrong with the EU and a lot of good would be done if journalists addressed those issues and wrote about them in an objective manner and provided genuine constructive criticism. But no – let’s write about anoraks instead, let’s bring up the bogeyman of health and safety yet again instead of focusing on real issues.

Put bluntly, these kind of articles and the attitudes of people who read them uncritically make me genuinely embarrassed to be British.