On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 23:34:22 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Anyone hear PM today? A guy who has a vacuum cleaner museum with
examples of pretty well every machine made reckoned the current range of
high power consumption cleaners was just a marketing ploy to appeal to
those who thought the more 'watts' the better. And basically just
produced more heat than extra suction.

Ah, but the Beeb's just a left-wing pro-EU propaganda machine, so it's
only to be expected...