I second that. Fuck the EUroland bastards! Oh ffs surely you eu wankers could’ve thought of a better name than John Smith.

“The UK licensing system for pesticides follows regulations and guidelines which are operated in a similar way by regulatory authorities throughout Europe. They are an essential safety measure designed to protect the public, pesticide users and the environment from potentially hazardous products.”

“…designed to protect the public…” Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! You need to report facts and not fiction.

I haven’t reported it, Private Eye have.

And on whose authority is it illegal? The European Union? Sorry, I only recognise one law-making body and it’s not on the continent.

Mr Rawlings was given two year conditional discharges for the offences and was ordered to pay prosecution costs of £8,500 in addition to his own legal costs (estimated by his barrister to be £60,000).

Italian MOCAP: an organophosphate insecticide which lacks the additional safety of a closed transfer system required in the UK approved version. The closed transfer system on UK MOCAP was a requirement of the independent Advisory Committee on Pesticides in order to ensure operator safety in using the product.

Italian Sevin Flow: a product containing 473g/l (47%) of the carbamate insecticide carbaryl. Carbaryl containing pesticides were banned in the UK in 2001 following the safety review of carbamate and organophosphate acetyl cholinesterase inhibitors. Insufficient data to assess the safety of carbaryl were provided by the approval holder and all product approvals were revoked.

Italian Oscar: containing the insecticide tebufenpyrad at a concentration significantly different to that of any UK approved product.
In evidence Mr Rawlings admitted that he had deliberately not applied for parallel import approval for any of the 14 products as charged and had no approval for them as is required under UK and EU legislation.

The UK licensing system for pesticides follows regulations and guidelines which are operated in a similar way by regulatory authorities throughout Europe. They are an essential safety measure designed to protect the public, pesticide users and the environment from potentially hazardous products.