It is not "splitting hairs" to remind you that 24 EU countries is not all 28 EU countries, that the EU has no power to insist that any country adopts the definition and that the definition is not in any way, shape or form legally binding on any nation. All these things are checkable. Therefore your point that failing to adopt the definition would put Labour into dispute with the EU falls (academic though the point has now become). There can be be no "major international issue" over not adopting the definition. I haven't noted any particular "major international issues" apropos of the 164 countries, the vast majority, that haven't adopted the definition. It's a very simple matter to check your facts before posting. During your absence from the forum this kind of sloppy playing fast and loose with facts that you have resorted to more than once today didn't take place and there was harmony around here.