Fred wrote:


Europe

Bull. Nothing in the Deputy-Prime-Minister's-Department documentation
refers to any EU Directive/Communication or any such. Overt
justification was 'safety', shown at the time and subsequently admitted
to be bogus (they used numbers for 'electrical fires' which included
appliances (over 90% of the cause), and firemen's 'not sure but prolly
lextrical' reports). Real reason was to bring small cash jobs into the
documented, through-the-books, taxed world. Unintended consequences -
polarising supply of leccy services for householders into gold-plated
thru-the-books and even more cash-in-hand who-cares jobs.

Nice one, Mr Prescott. P'raps if you were as close to your roots as your
image-makers try to paint you, you'd've foreseen the effect on 'ordinary
hard-working families'. And pigs might sprout wings...