EU banning Halogen bulbs!

[Gavin John Hyde]

Despite banning old filament bulbs and telling us all to use these halogen ones instead, the politburo and EU dictatorship have decided that we should now only use LED lamps and have banned halogen ones...
EU will ban halogen bulbs at the end of the month making lighting our homes TWICE as expensive | Daily Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6049349/EU-ban-halogen-bulbs-end-month-making-lighting-homes-TWICE-expensive.html

I have a friend who runs his dads convenience/discount store in Bristol and has a supply of the old bulbs still, he is importing them from India and customs haven't stopped so much as a single one. Would love to see the headline if he ended up in court, daft thing is he would likely end up getting longer than if he smuggled drugs!

 

[Octopus]

Google dictatorship whilst you're at it and explain how that applies to the EU.

Maybe ask the Greek people?

 

[johnduffell]

EU hoover ban: Powerful vacuums outlawed ,WHAT A LOAD OF S**t.

I think you'll find high energy using vacuums were banned because manufacturers were competing on wattage (ie energy used) rather than how well they cleaned. The eu also brought in one of those rainbow rating labels to show how good the vacs actually are at the job.
The makers were effectively strapping fan heaters to their vacs to make the wattage higher making us all fools

there has never been a ban on bent bananas, that is a myth

Yes Boris the clown admitted he made all that up because it made his column in the paper more interesting

 

[andyb]

Maybe ask the Greek people?

Ask them what Murdoch?

 

[Octopus]

Ask them what Murdoch?

Whether they had any choice but accept the terms the EU put on them to accept EU money ?

 

[Squid]

You do know that our forefathers fought these people Buzz?
Some gave up their lives in the fight.

I guess you didn't.

And got screwed over for doing so.....

 

[Squid]

Whether they had any choice but accept the terms the EU put on them to accept EU money ?

You mean the Germans, they are winning WWIII

 

[FatAlan]

No need to ban. They’ll become obsolete when everyone realises LED equivalents use a tenth of the power. Still, it will backfire on the French as we won’t need to buy as much of their electricity.

 

[Marvo]

About time they were banned, they're so inefficient it's criminal.

Same with vacuum cleaners, the idiot manufacturers have spent decades convincing the idiot customers that if a vacuum cleaner has a bigger motor it must be better. It just led to a race to make them with most enormous motors and appalling efficiency possibly because the marketing made them sell. You can outperform a 2kw power vacuum cleaner with a 500w EC motor version but now the only way to get manufacturers to become energy efficient is with legislation.

 

[Adam W]

I agree with a ban.
You don't have to look hard to find someone who has made their decision that low energy light bulbs are rubbish and given the choice would use 210W to light up a small kitchen instead of 33W.

I expect almost everyone on this forum has seen the damage caused by hot light bulbs, from making a lampholder brittle to the point where it can crack and reveal live conductors to where an installer has messed up the spacing between downlighters and the joist has become charred, not to mention the obvious benefit of having a light bulb which you can accidentally or otherwise touch without burning yourself.

 

[Squid]

About time they were banned, they're so inefficient it's criminal.

Same with vacuum cleaners, the idiot manufacturers have spent decades convincing the idiot customers that if a vacuum cleaner has a bigger motor it must be better. It just led to a race to make them with most enormous motors and appalling efficiency possibly because the marketing made them sell. You can outperform a 2kw power vacuum cleaner with a 500w EC motor version but now the only way to get manufacturers to become energy efficient is with legislation.

I'd rather the sound of a 7 litre V8 then a 1.8 TDi VSi Ghia AlFresco......

 

[buzzlightyear]

And I'm just pointing out that these are nazis (google it), and you want to join them.

me no , the EU has always had it in for UK. they want our Moines and nothing else.
my brother in law went to Brussel's .has he went to tell them about the fishing industry in uk has he was a fisher man and he was a spoke's man for all UK fishermen .when he spoke out about it to the EU they boo him .
google is a big company making Moines no difference to the EU.

 

[buzzlightyear]

Whether they had any choice but accept the terms the EU put on them to accept EU money ?

their is so much Moines gone from the EU pot
given to sham company's that they cant even do a audited for the monies they received. that so much Moines going missing .

 

[andyb]

Whether they had any choice but accept the terms the EU put on them to accept EU money ?

They had choices Murdoch, they could of left the euro zone, the EU or not had a bailout.
I'm against the EU's stance on Greece, I'm against a lot of what the EU does. That dosn't make it a dictatorship though.

This is a good read, though it's just someones opinion.

Greece has its problems with the EU, but it is in no hurry to leave | George Kyris - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/13/greece-problems-with-eu-would-never-leave

 

[andyb]

And got screwed over for doing so.....

If you say so.

 

[Squid]

If you say so.

Why it took 60 years for Poles to celebrate VE Day - https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/community/stories/remembrance/why-it-took-60-years-for-poles-to-celebrate-ve-day/