[modeleng] Re: "Smoke Rings" - Comment

Hi Rog,

Just what do they mean by that? That it will not be handled by ordinary
newsagents?

What a strange mob that EU are - thank goodness they are on your side of the
world & not mine.



> Hi All,
>
>    I discovered the other day that I was one of the people who could not
> send to the list.   I discovered it when I tried to post the
> following.   As I think that I can once again post to the list ... here
> it is - I wonder what you all think?
>
>
>
>   I have been waiting to read some comments,  in this forum,  on the
> opening paragraphs of the editorial ("Smoke Rings") in the latest Model
> Engineer (Issue No.: 4252).   In the absence of any views expressed I
> thought I would start the ball rolling and see what others think.
>
>   For those who haven't read,  or received their M.E. yet,  the editor
> is asking readers to contact their Member of Parliament,  objecting to
> the possibility that the U.K. will adopt an EU ruling that means that
> magazines like the M.E. will no longer be distributed through "small
> retail outlets".
>
>   I have a couple of comments about this request:
>
>      1.   The editor suggests that the M.E. relies for its circulation
> figures on the sales off the shelves in bookshops.   If other large
> bookshops are the same as the branch of W.H. Smiths in Truro,  the Model
> Engineer and its companion magazine Model Engineers' Workshop (and
> similar magazines covering other minority interests) have not graced the
> shelves of this establishment for several months.   I used to pick up
> the occasional issue of M.E.W. (and other magazines covering electronic
> hobbies) - but no longer.   Thus the EU directive will have no effect on
> this large outlet for the magazines - it has already been lost.
>
>      2.   The editor asks us to write to our M.Ps. asking them to oppose
> the move to adopt the EU directive.   Nowhere in the description of this
> possible bureaucratic move are any references given to the title,  or
> any reference number,  for this EU ruling.   How can we expect our M.P.s
> to know just what we are talking about when we cannot point them to the
> correct piece of legislation?
>
>   What do others think about this editorial plea.   Have others a
> clearer view of the background to this possible situation.
>
>
>      Cheers,
>
>
>         Roger Mason,  in St. Agnes.
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