[pjc50]

- It wasn't entirely false, just misleading (there is a standard defining what a banana is for the purposes of trade categorisation, tax and subsidy)

- the EU does not believe it's dependent on the goodwill of voters; the elected part of the EU itself is the weakest

- the UK media is very anti-EU and the EU has no real UK media operation

- it's "tone accurate": the EU does produce an awful lot of fiddly little rules. The proposal to ban unsealed olive oil from restaurant tables got quite far recently before the public heard about it and it was laughed out of feasibility.

[tormeh]

If the EU does not believe it's dependent on the goodwill of voters, then why did it care about the unsealed olive oil ban being laughed at? The Brussels bureaucracy is a mess, but it's not ridiculous. The proposal would never have passed, regardless of public attention.

Okay, that's just my belief, but it would be fairly depressing if I'm wrong.