Genetically-Engineered EuroBabble

After the despondency of yesterday, Nosher arrived at the allotment in a surprisingly good mood.
'There's something about living in England that makes me English and glad to live here' he announced.
'And what might that be?' I asked somewhat ungraciously 'the suppression of everything English in the name of multiculturalism by a Government that hates England, the English, and Englishness?'
Nosher took it on the chin.
'No' he replied 'although all that is slowly destroying our country and our traditional culture. What I find so good about living here is the gentle progress of the seasons, the unpredictability of the weather, and the lush green grass of summertime.'
At this Nosher wandered off and began tying up his rampant runner bean plants.
By lunchtime I'd had time to reflect on his pronouncements while tending my own little plot, so as we sat outside his weatherbeaten shed I asked Nosher how he managed to keep his feelings of Englishness alive.
'Oh, quite simple really' he said. 'I spray my beans agains green fly with a drop of washing-up detergent in a pint of water, defying the idiot EU ban on using a product for a purpose for which it is not licensed. Due to the stupid EuroBabble we now have to live under this is illegal, but it does far less harm to the environment than the pesticides that are licensed for the same purpose. So long as us English have the determination to resist the oppression of the EU and of the idiots who rule over us we will remain a nation - when we give up resisting them Englishness will be gone for ever.'
'Do you think that's what has kept genetically-engineered crops from catching on over here?' I asked.
'Oh, very much so!' said Nosher with relish 'it's not so much the feeling that GM crops are bad for us, it's the idea of them being foisted on us and decimating our agriculture, because that's what will happen if farmers here start using them. The problem is the big agrichemical companies - GM crops are simply a way for them to take control of the entire arable farming industry, and once they've got those restrictive licences signed, a farmer is bound to the seed and pesticide supplier as surely as if he was wearing a ball and chain. Get rid of the restrictive licensing agreements and the situation is transformed.'
'Do you think that will ever happen?'
'Not too hopeful at the moment' said Nosher 'the agrichemical companies have too much political influence, and it won't be long before they establish a hold over the EU, and then we'll have genetically-engineered EuroBabble in addition to all the other kinds of big-government bureaucratic nonsense we have to listen to.'
Nosher sighed, then he smiled and added:
'But I'm determined to be cheerful today! The way forward is seed exchanges - we can keep our traditional English plant varieties alive despite the stupid EU seed licensing scheme by growing them on our allotments, saving the seed and exchanging our surplus with other growers for seed they may have too much of that we are short of. Thousands of us allotment-holders do this already, and the practice is growing. That's another aspect of Englishness: don't let the slimeballs in charge drag you down!'
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