Are we talking about 'dildo restrictions' now? I wonder how many laws the EU has passed to govern masturbation devices. I wonder how many lunches were taken, how many millions were spent on ludicrous wanking toy restrictions, how many man hours were wasted on mountains of ludicrous EU beaurocracy.Miguelito wrote:Within the EU there are numerous cases that were sent to the European Court of Justice where the UK was trying to hamper the open market of the EU. Do you think that now they are all of a sudden going to completely open up to the rest of the world? There are literally hundreds of cases, but I'll just point to one:electron wrote:Seriously? "The EU was a big conspiracy, now thankfully it's gone, and we can throw ourselves into the free markets." Do you understand what a free market is? And that the entire goal of the EU is to have a 'common marketplace'? The vote was the opposite of supporting a free market.
On the surface. Do you understand what and who has really been voted for? The EU is a free, but controlled (and protected) market. The global free market, much less so.
Case 121/85 Conegate Ltd v Commissioners of Customs and Excise [1986] ECR 1007.
The UK was banning sex dolls from other European nations (namely Germany, but that goes without saying, of course), although there was a domestic market available for them. The ECJ found that although Member states retain the sovereignty to ban goods based on public morality, they cannot place stricter controls on foreign goods than on domestic.
So, say goodbye to your sexy European sex dolls and enjoy the prude British ones, I guess is the moral of this story.
The place is a joke, a vast bureaucratic nightmare of failure.