The Common Fisheries Policy. The price the UK had to pay for joining the EEC was to hand over territorial rights to its waters. Heath was such a desperate idiot, he signed up willingly.
The idiotic directive to limit the power consumption of household appliances. Which means it takes longer to boil a kettle, toast some toast, vacuum the house, and there's probably more. So by limiting the power consumption of a device, you need to use it for longer, thus ultimately not saving any power. Big gold star to the fookwit who came up with that one.
Lightbulbs. They all now have to be LED. Which is fine, except they cost ten times more than the old ones. Which lasted for years. The LED ones are supposed to last much longer than the old ones, so that means they should last forever - in human terms. Except they don't. (The more expensive the brand - Phillips, I'm looking at you here - the more likely they are to pack up after just a few months.) So the small saving in electricity costs is instantly negated by the huge cost in replacing a lightbulb which would have cost a quid, but now costs nearly a tenner. Nice.
The idiotic directive to limit the power consumption of household appliances. Which means it takes longer to boil a kettle, toast some toast, vacuum the house, and there's probably more. So by limiting the power consumption of a device, you need to use it for longer, thus ultimately not saving any power. Big gold star to the fookwit who came up with that one.
Lightbulbs. They all now have to be LED. Which is fine, except they cost ten times more than the old ones. Which lasted for years. The LED ones are supposed to last much longer than the old ones, so that means they should last forever - in human terms. Except they don't. (The more expensive the brand - Phillips, I'm looking at you here - the more likely they are to pack up after just a few months.) So the small saving in electricity costs is instantly negated by the huge cost in replacing a lightbulb which would have cost a quid, but now costs nearly a tenner. Nice.
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