On 03/10/2019 22:28, Steve Walker wrote:
On 03/10/2019 11:23, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Â*Â*Â* Tim Streater wrote:
Well that's TNP saying one of the main reasons claimed for brexit,
being able to have different standards for different markets, out of
the window. Remain voters have said this from the beginning.

Rubbish. Whether to do that or not, once we are out, becomes a
commercial matter for the company involved, rather than purposelessly
being forced upon them.

Good thinking. Let's go back to when every country used their own colours
for mains flexes. Freedom of choice is more important than common sense.

To be fair the change to colours for fixed wiring was a stupid one for
the UK. Blue is neutral in the current system and a live (3ph) under the
old, causing huge risk of confusion on industrial sites.

There was no need to standardise the colours for fixed wiring across the
EU and flex/portable wiring had already been standardised.

Fixed wiring is a good example of where sticking to our own standard
would have been more sensible.


Exactly. It was an example of 'harmonisation for it's own sake - a Bored
Brussels Bureaucrat needing to justify his existence



SteveW


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globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and,
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projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to
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