Sunday, January 07, 2007

The death by a thousand cuts.

So the Crown sign is to be removed from British pint glasses and replaced by the European Union's CE sign.
Next step will be to ban the traditional measure itself.
When will people wake up to the fact that our continuing membership of the evil empire is the biggest political issue of them all?
There are reports of myriads of similar, small issues week on week. The effects are slow but always cumulative. Because of this gradual method we only see how many negative changes there have been with the benefit of hindsight - and then only if we are not too apathetic to look and care.


LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=425868&in_page_id=1770

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