Re: A number of sound decisions?
even direct links, direct quotes or reality has no acceptance in your mind
Okay, so let's break this downs:
1) Direct links - correct, these are not acceptable as evidence. Links are not facts. Links are just that, a link to something else. In this case, a link to a comment on a forum. Not a fact. Certainly not what I asked you to provide, any details at all of anyone being prosecuted and imprisoned for selling straight and/or bent bananas as per your claim.
2) Direct quotes. A quote is not evidence. All your quotes also seem to be from one person. I'm sorry if it offends, but Tm Worstall's opinion pieces are not a source of facts.
3) "Acceptance in my mind". Ouch.
Let me make this perfectly clear for you, mister twisty-turny: I have asked for a simple example of somebody being prosecuted and imprisoned, as you claimed, for selling sub-standard bananas, under this EU regulation that you and your ilk are so het-up about. You made that claim, the onus is on you to prove it, not on anyone else to go away and disprove it. At this stage, I'm considering whether it is worthwhile making a large monetary bet on the premise that you cannot, and never will be able to.
There is a long-standing convention in the House of Commons that a member cannot call another member a liar, even when they are clearly not telling the truth. This is on the premise that the members are honourable, and would not intentionally lie. If you are unable to back up your somewhat outlandish claims, then you are lying. The very fact that there are no articles in the right-wing EU-hating press shouting loudly about it happening is probably proof enough that it has never happened, but I'm willing to give you one last chance to dig yourself out of the hole you have dug for yourself:
Prove your claim, or retract it. The onus ins on you to do so, not any anyone else to disprove it.