"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:51:19 +0000, Frank Erskine
wrote:

On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:46:55 +0000, Owain
wrote:

Ed Sirett wrote:
BTW where has "Horizon" gone, hasn't been any for months or have
they
moved it to day time ?!

According to ITV news just now, old style light bulbs are to be
"banned"
by the EU.

So my bedside lamp will be made obsolete, since it has narrow
fluted
glass shades which won't accomodate anything wider than an SES
candle
bulb.

I'll have to start stocking up with spares...

And I thought the function of the "EU" was to promote trade, rather
than banning things.

Ah well...

This will create a market in filament bulbs as contraband.
Factories
in China will produce them and trans-ship through countries on the
edge of the EU (the other edge) and aspiring members still won't be
able to join because of their policies on human rights and light
bulbs.

There will be inspections by HM Customs at sea ports and the Tunnel.
Initially small quantities will be allowed, but anything more
confiscated.

All of this will be able to be done by the EU which does things
because nothing in treaties says it can't and which in any case is
busy implementing most of the content of the European Constitution
anyway, so that in a few years time when it comes to a vote, there
will be little difference between the status quo and what is to be
voted about anyway.

To paraphrase the words of Brecht, they are dissolving the people
and
electing another.


--

.andy



....nah ! You will be able to buy them in France as they ignore all the
rules we obey, and in Holland as they have very liberal attitudes to
substances that we ban G

AWEM