SCRAPE THE BOTTOM AND JUST KEEP SCRAPING : BREXITERS, those ever reliable fonts of wisdom regarding EU rules and regulations, have once again gotten their knickers in a twist and a knot.
This time their ire has been turned onto the country’s waterways and what we can and can not do to them, according to those unelected, faceless Brusselcrats!
In particular, the flooding that has devastated large swathes of the UK is all the EU’s fault, so they say. Apparently some directive about not polluting arable land with heavy metal laden spoils has been taken as a LAW PROHIBITING dredging of rivers and swamps. Or something like that, it would take thirty seconds on Google to find out exactly, and who’s got time for that with all the outrage that needs expressing.
“It’s nonsense,” our resident expert on EU law clarifies, “you just need to take one look at the coterie of shite currently running the UK to be certain that dredging has been ongoing. And what’s been dredged up has been placed on the top.”
Perhaps the misdirection of outrage is there to stop people asking Where’s Boris? As the flood hit communities flounder. And where’s the Intelligence Report into Russian Interference? And how’s the Arcuri inquiry getting along? And who leaked the Darroch emails? And who paid for Boris Johnson’s £15,000 a week holiday? And..and…so on.
Next Brussels will be telling us we can’t scrape the bottoms of our barrels too! But only until the 31st of December 2020.
“It’s too late for that too,” our expert adds, “the barrel is well and truly scraped and the bottom dragged out. The digging equipment is into what lies underneath.”
And what is that?
“Why the swamp.”