The ever-diligent EU has brewed up yet another baffling regulation—this time declaring caffeine “harmful to humans if swallowed” after the European Commission banned its use in pesticides over supposed health risks to people’s hydration, body temperature and anxiety. Starmer might find a health warning slapped on his flat white next time he jets off for a cosy catch up with Macron…
Meanwhile, Starmer caved to Brussels yet again, bowing to demands on food safety alignment with the UK taking up ECJ jurisdiction. Brussels’ latest ban is yet another dose of the red tape Brexit was meant to bin—yet Starmer’s doing his best to drag us back into the bureaucratic farce. Time to wake up and smell the coffee…
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward said:
“The reality is that it’s Zack Polanski who brought the nation, Andy Burnham. And if we hadn’t had the success of the Green Party in this last year since Zack’s been leading, which has been unprecedented, phenomenal success and a growth from about 60,000 members to 230,000, if we hadn’t had that much pressure on Labour, then we’d probably still be in the Starmer regime, which was pretty much ushering in a Reform government with its lurch to the right. So actually, what we’re seeing now is that we’ve set the political agenda and the government is picking that up.”