"They may take our light bulbs but they will never take our Vacum Cleaners!"

[DiscoStu]

You lot, yes. Fat wimps.

But your point remains correct; 1600 watts is a hell of a lot of power for the purpose.

Vacuums are like cars, you can never have enough power.

(Unless you start sucking up the carpet, then you probably do have too much power)

[greenlake]

Better order a new one for Christmas....

[woohoo]

That's because it's an electric dog. About 1600 watts I reckon.

Oh and its

I know where I would like to stick my hoover right now.

[Sysman]

I'm no fan of these regulations, but think about it; 900 Watts is still a hell of a lot of power for a domestic apparatus used for picking up lots of tiny little bits of dust.

Provided the 900 watt versions do still pick up dust anyone who has circuit breakers that trip if you use the vacuum cleaner at the same time as a kettle or iron will welcome this.

It is a very practical idea and I suspect it might lead to less fires in homes with dodgy wiring.

[vetran]

http://www.greatbowden.org/documents...Appliances.pdf

in the scheme of things its not really a big issue.

https://www.gov.uk/government/upload..._factsheet.pdf

[EternalOptimist]

The point about all this is the regulation.

They dont try to use persuasion or education. They dont let the market guide people ('hey , my lecky bill is high this month'. 'can we really afford that industrial stregnth hoover?')

noo. they have to go straight in with the nanny state law

driven by the green eco-loonies

which makes it even harder to stomache

[Mich the Tester]

Pah, first it was the lightbulbs and we said nothing, then it was the hoovers and we said nothing, next they will come for our microwaves and still we will say nothing.

That did actually make me giggle.

[Mich the Tester]

yet we still buy our tat from coal fired china and get our waste burnt on Indian beaches.

Oh that's nothing. Environmentally friendly Holland has filled up the North Sea with wind farms, charges tuliploads of tax on petrol and driving big cars, subsidises people to put solar panels on the roof and then buys electricity from Vattenfall, who burn lignite in old DDR power stations in eastern Germany and it sends old ships full of nasty poisonous tulip that even Assad's chemical weapons labs wouldn't touch off to the Ivory Coast so that the brown folks can suffer disease and birth defects instead of us here in Euroland.

[darmstadt]

Quite interesting to read the eurosceptic media (and followers such as Tim Akers) going on about this as when you look at the vote there was only 27 representatives at the vote, none of them UK eurosceptics (in fact the only UK representative there was Labour) and everyone voted for it.

[SueEllen]

Pah, first it was the lightbulbs and we said nothing, then it was the hoovers and we said nothing, next they will come for our microwaves and still we will say nothing.

If they came for our microwaves would Britain get slimmer?