Brits rail against great EU cover-up

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"Brits rail against great EU cover-up
By Annabel Crabb
London
August 7, 2005

A campaign has been launched to save the barmaid's cleavage.

If there's anything capable of uniting the British public in defiance more than a random series of terrorist attacks, it is a goofy new directive from the European Union.

And in the past week, just such a directive has materialised to remind British punters where the real enemy dwells — Brussels.

The European Union Optical Radiation Directive, now working its way inexorably through the European Parliament, proposes new obligations on employers throughout the EU to ensure that workers cover their skin to avoid excess sun exposure.

The sensitive British public, highly attuned to outbreaks of humourlessness from Brussels, has fears for the future of a beloved national symbol: the barmaid's cleavage.

'Save our jugs!' came the cry from The Sun newspaper, which dedicated a double spread in Friday's paper to a selection of wenchy young women defying the proposed controls."