Even the "good for consumers" defence of the big stores requires scrutiny.
"There is nothing half-hearted about anything I do," he told his audience, having set out at length his present position: that the EU is imperfect and in need of reform, but also the best available forum for continent-wide collaboration on vital issues – protecting the rights of workers and consumers; defence of the environment; regulating rogue finance.
In June consumer-defence associations said that mobile telephony was now Brazil's most moaned-about product.
He's working with a farm consumer legal defence fund.
Rightly, the document points out that most European countries these days are "producers" rather than "consumers" of defence and that there is no longer a direct need to station substantial forces in the region.
Companies developing embedded systems based on high-end technology in areas such as telecommunication, defence, consumer products, healthcare equipment are evolving in an extremely competitive globalised market.
But it is still quietly assumed that although Gulf militaries will be major consumers of western defence exports, they will not be significant military actors.
Local food empowers farmers, links producers and consumers, and provides a line of defence between consumers and international commodity markets.
The FCA has not consulted on the rules that are considered the "second line of defence" against consumers making poor retirement decisions.
Later, he reveals a Bond-villain-esque plan for an artificially intelligent hedge fund that would short consumer stocks, buy long on defence stocks and then start a war.
Similarly, an artificially intelligent hedge fund designed to maximize the value of its portfolio could be incentivized to short consumer stocks, buy long on defence stocks and then start a war – as suggested by Elon Musk in Werner Herzog's latest documentary.
