Brussels is temporarily pulling the plug on plans to ban high-powered kettles and toasters in order to avoid giving anti-EU campaigners fresh ammunition in the Britain’s “Brexit” referendum, it was reported today.
The decision to shelve the plans until after the EU referendum comes as Brussels tries to minimise its reputation for meddling in all aspects of voters’ ordinary lives ahead of the June 23 vote that will decide Britain’s EU membership.
The plans to enforce greater energy efficiency on small appliances like kettles and toasters first emerged in 2014 and have become a hot-button issue among anti-EU campaigners who have drawn attention to the issue as an example of European over-reach.
"The only thing that should be toast is our EU membership," said Brian Monteith, Leave.EU's chief spokesman, "They may take our tea and toast but they will never take our freedom, but we can have both when we vote to leave.
"We are constantly told leaving the EU is a leap in the dark but the real unknown is just how much more depressing and grim life will be in the homogenised, soulless EU. They are already taking menthol out of our cigarettes, next they'll be saying oil of bergamot causes cancer and Earl Grey Tea will be no more."
"Brussels is storing up all barmy regulations, power grabs and budget demands it can delay until after the referendum," added Robert Oxley, a spokesman for Vote Leave, "But if we vote remain quicker than you can boil a kettle the same damaging proposals will be back on the table and we will be powerless to say no. The only safe way to avoid a referendum hangover is to Vote Leave."
“What we want is to let the free market reign, not this diktat by bureaucrat,” said David Coburn, a UK Independence party MEP from Scotland who highlighted the proposals set out in the EU’s “Ecodesign” consultation.
Mr Coburn, who recently purchased a new kettle and toaster on moving house, has grumbled that his new appliances no longer seem to have the ‘oomph’ they once did. “I think I must have bought a euro-toaster, I have to put the bread in five times and it’s still pale and pasty. Perhaps it’s powered by windmills,” he told The Telegraph, “And the kettle? Watching a kettle boil has never been so boring.”
they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR TEA!!
they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR TEA!!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Re: they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR T
I had a toaster like that once. After one use (toasting two slices) for the next pair of slices the toaster would come on then go off and come on again. The bread ended up hard and not toasted. I thought the toaster was defective, but after getting a new two new ones, all three did the same thing. I ended buying a different brand which worked fine. Try cooking eggs with toast for four people having to wait 20 minutes (or more) between servings for the toaster to cool down enough so that it would toast the bread in one shot., I have to put the bread in five times and it’s still pale and pasty
Probably some heat sensor that was designed with the over heat temp too low. I thought about opening it up and finding the component that shut it down and bypassing it, but it was easier to buy a different brand. IIRC it was a White Westinghouse. I now have a Black & Decker.
Re: they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR T
Tea is Chinese. Traditionally the english drink boiled roots, herbs, and rat entrails.
And the Chinese drink the good stuff. Lovely aromatic teas that would be ruined by crap like bergamot, sugar and milk.
yrs,
rubato
And the Chinese drink the good stuff. Lovely aromatic teas that would be ruined by crap like bergamot, sugar and milk.
yrs,
rubato
Re: they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR T
the Chinese guys at the steel shop all had their own little electric teapot at their work stations.
they, the teapots, would regularly catch on fire.
after the second or third one burnt up I pointed out the 'made in china' label and wrote N.G. on it, which was how I identified sub par fabrication in the inspection process.....
(really bad work was marked, N.F.G.)
they, the teapots, would regularly catch on fire.
after the second or third one burnt up I pointed out the 'made in china' label and wrote N.G. on it, which was how I identified sub par fabrication in the inspection process.....
(really bad work was marked, N.F.G.)
Re: they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR T
rubato wrote:Tea is Chinese. Traditionally the english drink boiled roots, herbs, and rat entrails.
And the Chinese drink the good stuff. Lovely aromatic teas that would be ruined by crap like bergamot, sugar and milk.
yrs,
rubato
LOL! Aspergers boy shares another gem of his ignorance with us.
Dick.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”