Just watch the video. Watch all of it. And be grateful he's been forced out. It's just under 9 minutes.
Did you hear what he said, what they're planning to do in respect of changing the flavour of your cigarettes, or forcing e-cigarettes to have a regulated amount of nicotine? The plain packaging bit, did you catch that? Did you notice the hand-wringing (a body-language indication that he's being dishonest)? Did you notice he's a lying bastard from hell when he said snus is dangerous.
I suppose we can take only a small amount of comfort knowing the Directive will probably be delayed until 2015. These people are not elected by the way. They are unelected technocrats who are out to tell us how we should live our lives, in accordance with the Public Health gospel.
We need to get out of the EU as soon as possible, but of course our government is too afraid to give Britons a referendum. Ever wonder why?
