The dichotomy of it all..

I wonder how the average Sun reader is reacting to the latest news to travel in from Europe this morning?

Seeing as that paper has been famously anti-Europe in the past, carrying scare stories about how Cadbury's Chocolate would be banned under EU law and how Brussels was stopping certain shapes of bananas getting to our shops (their xenophobia is second only in fact to the Daily Mail, whose daily "Argh! Foreigners and Immigrants Will Get You!" headlines never seem to bore the aging readership in Conservative clubs up and down the country).

So how is the paper reacting to the news?

That news, of course, being that a ruling in an EU court could mean that taxes on alcohol and cigarettes only need to be paid in the country in which the products were bought, and the UK could not slap their usual excise duty on such products when they arrive here.

The EU court must decide whether someone who buys alcohol or tobacco from another country, and arranges for it to be delivered to their door, can avoid paying excise duty in his or her home country. This could potentially lose the Treasury a shit load of cash, of course, as if you were to order your cigarettes from some of the cheaper EU countries they could cost you just over seven quid for 200 (not including postage, of course).

So I wonder how The Sun is telling it's "white man van" readership today that the EVIL people in Brussels are going to give them an opportunity to get their 20 Bensons seven times cheaper than they would be able to buy them in the UK. Damn those pesky foreigners and their cheaper taxes, damn them all..

Oh, and talking of Europe - top of the group, baby,