Another flatulent Johnson error
The Times reports another Johnson blunder:Boris Johnson’s fishy tale at the final Conservative leadership hustings yesterday has failed to stand up to scrutiny.Mr Johnson brandished a kipper during his speech in Canning Town, east London, which he said had come from an “utterly furious” fish smoker on the Isle of Man.“After decades of sending kippers like this through the post, he has had his costs massively increased by Brussels bureaucrats who have insisted that each kipper must be accompanied by this, a plastic ice pillow,” he said. “Pointless, pointless, expensive, environmentally damaging health and safety.”Mr Johnson pledged to “take back control of our regulatory framework” and said “there are things that we will be able to do when we come out of the EU that we weren’t able to do before”.But the European Commission has hit back by saying that no EU rules require kippers to be posted with plastic ice pillows. “The case described by Mr Johnson falls outside the scope of the EU legislation and it’s purely a UK national competence,” a spokeswoman for the Commission said.https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/euromyth-boriss-kipper-claim-shot-down-fwpwj5q9j
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