Today's Sunday Telegraph reports on the State's latest piece of mindless micro-management, this time over a few dozen parsnips.
A working landowner - Mr James Cookson - puts his leftover harvest into bags. He puts prices on the bags. He puts the bags at the end of his driveway, and next to the bags he puts an honesty box. Passers-by take what they fancy and leave their payment in the box. He makes between £5 and £10 per week, and essentially does it so that nothing goes to waste. Can anyone see the harm in this ? Can you possibly come up with any sort of objection ? No, I didn't think so. But Northumberland County Council can.
Some wretched Sate-sponsored bureaucrats who clearly have absolutely nothing to do have written to Mr Cookson, telling him that his produce has to be sold by metric weight. Under EU regulations, needless to say. And along with his warning letter, they've sent him four pages of guidance on how to conform with these piddling regulations.
Mr Cookson is quoted as saying "I have got better things to kick up a fuss about, bit it tickles my sense of humour that someone has bothered to write an official letter about something like this".
I'll tell you what - it doesn't tickle my sense of humour - not one bit. It sickens that they we're paying our taxes so that some good-for-nothing busy-body can interfere in such an utterly harmless thing. You could take the mickey out of them, but they do it themselves. They're beyond parody. Every time you think you've heard of the most ludicrous, time-wasting, intermeddling piece of twaddle, they come up with a new one which breaks all records.
Come the revolution, that's all I can say....come the revolution.
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