KENT'S sausage supremo Jim Hoad says interfering Eurocrats have lost him an order worth more than £50,000 for no good reason. For more than 30 years Mr Hoad has sold his famed Korkers to a national milk company to deliver to customers in Kent and London on its floats.

Now the order has been banged on the head by Brussels, he says. The reason given him is that the floats only have cold boxes containing ice to keep his sausages fresh, rather than a refrigerated unit. "I reckon the company, which I don't want to name because it is not its fault, has delivered nearly three-and-a-half million of my sausages over 33 years and I have not had any complaints about them," said Mr Hoad "This new law is typical of the do-gooders who raise issues to make more work."

Mr Hoad, a long-serving member of Ashford council, makes no secret of his wanting Britain to quit Europe. It is this sort of interference that has led so many French people to vote for M Le Pen, he says.

Not that Mr Hoad is against good hygiene, His Rolvenden sausage is spotless and he uses only belly of pork and herbs, mainly sage, to flavour them. The loss of this order will not seriously damage his business, says Mr Hoad whose markets stretch far and wide.