Problem: You're an unelected bureaucrat given the task to enforce "equality" regulations in housing practices, but where to begin?

Solution: Start telling people how to write classified ads:

The [new EU] rulings will make it an offence for home-owners to stipulate whether they want men or women in their houses ... The plan is part of a European Commission anti-discrimination directive.

During the run up to the Iraq war, some pundits floated the idea that that UK should ditch the EU and enter into some sort of equivalent treaty relationship with the US. When the propeller-heads in Brussels come up with crap like this, I'm not sure I'd disagree.