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Originally Posted by brando
We must fight back in the bureaux of government, Addman. Not so long ago the Brussels mob tried to control the length and straightness of the bananas that we Britons could purchase in our stores and supermarkets.
Noting this, and preferring the magnificent curves of the Jamaican variety to the stubby digits presumably grown in the now defunct marijuana factories of Holland; our government spoke out in Europe and gained an exemption.
I'm not sure whether we sent N.Farage to insult the Belgian Prime minister or something - but we won.
Winston would simply have sent the Royal Navy to blockade the Belgian ports. 
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The bananas thing is flat out untrue. See here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6481969.stm
EDIT: Also, if it were true, under the principle of direct effect, Britain would never have an opt out of that legislation. That's not how the EU works. All directives and regulations proposed by the EU have to be implemented in national law else the members states get taken to court and heavily fined. And anyway, any legislation made by the EU has to be ratified by both the Council and the Parliament in the EU. The Council is made up of representatives of each of the member states governments, the parliament is directly elected by the people. Nothing the EU passes is magically created out of the bureaucracy.
As for Winston blockading the Belgian ports, it might be worth remembering that Churchill was one of the major advocates for a United States of Europe, something much more extreme than we have now. A lot of anti-EU Conservative supporters seem to forget that, or at least willfully ignore it, but Churchill was extremely pro-europe and would have been pro-EU if he had been around long enough, if not even potentially criticising it for not going far enough.