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webofevil ([personal profile] webofevil) wrote2010-10-08 09:24 am
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Earl Erroll is pondering the perils of over-regulation.
I have a Kit-Kat here. Have I read any of this stuff on it? No, I haven’t got time, but I am sure it is all good, well meaning stuff on the labelling. I have not got powerful enough glasses for that any longer, anyway. In order to make the text bigger they would have to make the packaging bigger, in which case they would increase the waste, in which case we would have more landfill and other undesirable effects.
As the noble Earl said,
I suppose my message is very simple. Let us have some common sense. I know it is not common and I do not know whether I have it. [Hansard]

[identity profile] likesthequiet.livejournal.com 2010-10-08 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
That is an awesome, rambling speech. He just goes on and on and on!!
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[identity profile] akicif.livejournal.com 2010-10-08 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Easy: put a URL on the label that points to a page with all the non-urgent info. Clearly, stuff about potential dangers should go on the actual label, though - there's no use in having "May contain nuts" on the web page.

[identity profile] pseudomonas.livejournal.com 2010-10-08 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Bigger chocolate bars.

[identity profile] internetsdairy.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I want him to deliver this speech in a blacked out studio, peering at the KitKat which is spotlit on a little plinth.

So Lords can bring snacks into the House? Is there a lot of rustling?

[identity profile] internetsdairy.livejournal.com 2010-10-09 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Two more takeaways from that speech: the 'concept of pudding' and the notion that paedophiles are making children fat.

(Anonymous) 2010-10-17 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
るるちゃんとわたし。
なんかいいコンビかも。