Household: Home Information Packs (HIPs); Fortnightly bin collections; Higher household electricity bills, more wind turbines; Soaring water bills. Consumer affairs: Higher food prices; Written and pictorial health warnings on cigarette packets (including what font to be used); Disappearance of the Crown signs on pints; Lists of ingredients and warnings on food products; Phasing out of incandescent bulbs; Expensive electrical goods, and higher Council tax; New Royal Mail pricing rules; Bureaucracy at the bank; High price of energy saving products; Banning vitamins and minerals; Fewer and more expensive fish; Extinction of swathes of vegetable varieties; The end of selling in pounds and ounces only. Transport and motoring: Car booster seats for children; Photocard driving licences; End of many rural bus routes; Creation of Railtrack; Harder and more expensive motorcycle tests; Preventing the return of the Routemaster bus; In future, all new cars will need to keep headlights on during the day. Law and order: Government’s inability to expel EU criminals from the UK. Media, sport and Entertainment: TV airtime quotas; Banning caps on foreign football players, higher wages, higher ticket prices for fans; Abolition of the 192 inquiries service and replacement with 118; Television advertising rules. Workplace: Banning workers from earning higher wages instead of taking holidays. Economy: The run on Northern Rock; Northern Rock downsizing; Post office closures. Health: Fewer training hours for doctors, compromised patient safety; Higher costs for the NHS. Before you dismiss this, all this came from the horses mouth! Here are all the references to EU Directives implemented in the last decade! the EU’s Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (2002/91/EC), Fortnightly bin collections. The EU’s Landfill Directive (1999/31/EC) the EU Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC), the EU Tobacco Products Directive Television Without Frontiers Directive (89/552/EEC). Disappearance of the Crown signs on pints. The EU’s Measuring Instruments Directive (2004/22/EC), The EU’s Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (2002/96/EC), the EU Postal Services Directive (97/67/EC) The Insurance Mediation Directive (2002/92/EC), The Distance Marketing Directive (2002/65/EC) The EU’s Food Supplements Directive (2002/46/EC) EU law (Directive 80/181/EEC), EU Directives 2003/20/EC, 91/439/EC, 98/95/EC, 2003/33/EC, (2001/37/EC), 2003/641/EC. What do you think? ;) Sissel - at least people can email me if they don't agree with what i say, they i will be only happy to back up my point. you carry on hiding behind your sickle & hammer.....Oooops i meant EU flag. hehe. i think the correct term is BOOYAHH!!!!