St Albans MEP speaks out about EU scheme

9:45am Wednesday 19th November 2008

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MEP Jeffrey Titford, who represents St Albans, has attacked a new EU scheme to give fruit to schoolchildren.

The UKIP member told the European Parliament yesterday: "This project is being dressed up as all about concern for the welfare of children.

"Nanny Brussels likes to be in control of everything, including what we eat.

"Putting itself in charge of what children eat at school is the first major step in that process.

"The propaganda angle is that each piece of fruit will have an EU label on it and the whole project will be supported by a massive publicity campaign.

"It will create a great many opportunities for mischief such as mandatory rules that all the fruit must come from inside the EU.

"This could, at a stroke, rule out British suppliers who obtain their bananas from the British Commonwealth Caribbean countries and thus provide a lucrative new opportunity for the French islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique."