John Britton, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and director of its tobacco advisory group, said: “The bar code looks like the bottom half of a packet of Marlboro cigarettes. I was stunned when I saw it. This is pushing at the limits.”Well, the credulous twonk is now urging the EU to get on with publishing their Tobacco Products Directive as a matter of urgency after the resignation of John Dalli.
I would hope that the Tobacco Products Directive could go out to consultation as soon as possible because we need to see what was proposed and be able to comment and maybe adapt it if there’s anything in there that could be improved.Err, John. Mate. The consultation was nearly two years ago. Did you miss it? It was very well documented at the time, and the responses reported widely. The directive is the result of the consultation and, thus, not adaptable or amenable to improvement. It's kinda why it's called a "directive", as in 'an order'.
Are you not paid quite a lot of money to notice rather large details like that?
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But is this just a 'blind' to get the Seoul conference decisions implemented before anyone realises what's happening!
".... and maybe adapt it if there’s anything in there that could be improved."
I have several suggestions on that, the first of which is to expunge it from the rafts of authoritarian bullshit the EU is wont to defecate.
There is that. Perhaps Britton knows there are no amendments to the directive and is happy to pretend there might be. His profession is hardly trustworthy, is it?
But what would they do with all our money if they weren't sitting around thinking up irrelevant authoritarian bullshit? ;)
Maybe he's pretending because he's feeding his stupid followers who blindly listen to every utterance. And they need constant feeding with false info. They are stupid because they will not realise that the consultation is over and will start shouting on the intertubes that the evil tobacco people are getting their way.
"Are you not paid quite a lot of money to notice rather large details like that?"
Perhaps the barcode wasn't big enough?
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