they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR TEA!!
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2016 8:41 pm
Brussels is temporarily pulling the plug on plans to ban high-powered kettles and toasters in order to avoid giving anti-EU campaigners fresh ammunition in the Britain’s “Brexit” referendum, it was reported today.
The decision to shelve the plans until after the EU referendum comes as Brussels tries to minimise its reputation for meddling in all aspects of voters’ ordinary lives ahead of the June 23 vote that will decide Britain’s EU membership.
The plans to enforce greater energy efficiency on small appliances like kettles and toasters first emerged in 2014 and have become a hot-button issue among anti-EU campaigners who have drawn attention to the issue as an example of European over-reach.
"The only thing that should be toast is our EU membership," said Brian Monteith, Leave.EU's chief spokesman, "They may take our tea and toast but they will never take our freedom, but we can have both when we vote to leave.
"We are constantly told leaving the EU is a leap in the dark but the real unknown is just how much more depressing and grim life will be in the homogenised, soulless EU. They are already taking menthol out of our cigarettes, next they'll be saying oil of bergamot causes cancer and Earl Grey Tea will be no more."
"Brussels is storing up all barmy regulations, power grabs and budget demands it can delay until after the referendum," added Robert Oxley, a spokesman for Vote Leave, "But if we vote remain quicker than you can boil a kettle the same damaging proposals will be back on the table and we will be powerless to say no. The only safe way to avoid a referendum hangover is to Vote Leave."
“What we want is to let the free market reign, not this diktat by bureaucrat,” said David Coburn, a UK Independence party MEP from Scotland who highlighted the proposals set out in the EU’s “Ecodesign” consultation.
Mr Coburn, who recently purchased a new kettle and toaster on moving house, has grumbled that his new appliances no longer seem to have the ‘oomph’ they once did. “I think I must have bought a euro-toaster, I have to put the bread in five times and it’s still pale and pasty. Perhaps it’s powered by windmills,” he told The Telegraph, “And the kettle? Watching a kettle boil has never been so boring.”
