THE EU SUCKS!

Anyone who follows this blog will have noticed that there is not usually much blogging done by me most weekends, if any at all. Weekends, for me are for lots of other things such as doing the things I don’t get the chance to do in the week due to work commitments, going to my favourite watering hole, the Lyndon House Hotel for a beer, looking after elderly parents in the shape of my old mom who has moved back to the Midlands from North Wales, and Fred, my father in law. In fact weekends tend to be so busy with other things having time to blog is a bit of a luxury.

One of my occasional weekend duties is to give my car a clean – usually when I become too ashamed to be seen driving such a filthy car, which is where this posting is meandering to.

Car cleaning includes getting the old vac out and getting rid of layers of dust, dog hairs and other detritus’ that builds up in there over a period of time. With me, a dog and two cats in the house Mrs B need a pretty powerful vacuum cleaner to cope with such things, so news that the EU is now threatening to make a clean sweep with new regulations on vacuum cleaners is bad news – it wants the companies that manufacture vacuum cleaners to reduce the wattage on their products to save energy – can these interfering bumblecrats leave no one alone?

According to an article in the Sunday Telegraph (12th September 2010) the EU’s officials are proposing to restrict the power of the appliances through the use of regulations. Naturally, this potential dust-up with them has got vacuum cleaner manufacturers in a state of panic. They are warning that the ability of their machines to suck up dust and dirt would be seriously restricted, including the removal of the fine particles which give problems to those with allergy and asthma sufferers.

Vacuum cleaners are included with other household appliances the EU has its beady little eyes on, which include energy levels of fridges, TV’s and computers too. All these rules just make life a misery for the appliance manufacturers and consumers alike, they must now realise by now the EU sucks!