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Eh… https://www.europarl.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/en/news-and-pre...

So this is only a classification effort to help with inter-border trade, nothing else, nothing is banned…

The UK isn't even scrapping the "bendy banana" law https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bendy-bananas-brexit-uk-e...

The EU never banned bananas based on shape. It’s a myth

Oh, I thought they made it, but it was something the banana industry requested to have standards for trade.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/11/boris-johns...

I always thought "journalists" whipping up outage over something the regulated industry requested(!) should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. This kind of "reporting" was probably a contributing factor in anti-EU sentiment and ultimately Brexit.

** lie

Reference: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/unitedkingdom/en/news-and-pre...

> blue passports

Which are made in Poland. What a magnificent Brexit win!

By a French company from what I heard.

The wonder of the single market, innit.

>single market, innit

Why do you need to initialize the single market method?

And they’re hardly blue. Closer to black.

And very tacky.

Literally. Tacky. Like 20 year old rubberised plastic going rotten.

I felt compelled to buy a passport cover so I wasn't grossed out by the cover.