The EU’s banned list

To be honest, this list of things that cannot be carried as hand baggage on an airplane because they could be used as weapons isn’t all that strange:

baseball bats, clubs or batons, cricket bats, golf clubs, hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks, kayak and canoe paddles, skateboards, snooker cues, fishing rods, martial arts equipment.

They all can indede be used as weapons.

But where we get the true lunacy, so symptomatic of the entire EU project, is here.

The European Commission has been forced to reveal the contents of the confidential memo to airlines outlining which everyday objects were considered a potential terrorist threat.

Security staff have used the list to stop passengers carrying skateboards, fishing roads and canoe paddles from taking them on-board – despite not being told they were banned.

Yopu see, the Commission’s position was “Yes, there is a law, but we’re not going to tell you what it is”.

That’s really not the way to run a continent, is it?