It's time for the EU to stop being silly sausages Bureaucrats in the European Union are threatening a sausage war with Britain - but who will come off wurst? Tensions are sizzling... Credit: Frank Schiefelbein /EyeEm My generation has been lucky. In our lifetimes, we have known only peace. We have never been required to fight for our country. We have never even been called on to do national service. I fear, however, that the time is approaching for each man among us to stand up and be counted. For, if we shrink from our duty, then the day will dawn when our children ask us a deeply uncomfortable question.