UK Moral Support Thread

[islandman]

Over 1500 pages. And businesses are going to need to comply with it in seven days time.

1400 of those pages deal with fishing rights because fish 'n chips are a national treasure.

 

[Conager]

Send cheese, but not Butters!

Cheese, cheese or American cheese?

 

[Polranny]

It's a pyrric victory. Hopefully Boris will resign soon

 

[astuffedshirt_perv]

It's a pyrric victory. Hopefully Boris will resign soon

I hear this a lot and dont get it...you guys did vote for it. Someone has to be stuck closing it out. Who do you want to be stuck with that problem?

 

[oggbashan]

It's a pyrric victory. Hopefully Boris will resign soon

Brexit always was going to be. Boris promised a deal. He has delivered. It is not all fervid Brexiteers wanted it to be - it could never have been unless the UK committed economic suicide.

Fishing is a fudge but with a time limit. We sell more fish to Europe than we eat ourselves so stopping all EU fishing in UK waters at the expense of massive tariffs on UK caught fish would have been an own goal. Hopefully, we will have (even if eventually) control to stop damaging trawling in Marine Protection areas.

But it is still not a done deal. The UK parliament, and all the EU states, have to agree.

 

[rockcasbah]

Brexit’s kinda like one those divorces where she doesnt get the house and he’s not allowed to date.

Nothing’s changed except everyone’s unhappier.

 

[FataMorgana]

Brexit’s kinda like one those divorces where she doesnt get the house and he’s not allowed to date.

Nothing’s changed except everyone’s unhappier.

But we get longer cords on our kettles.

 

[oggbashan]

But we get longer cords on our kettles.

And we can buy powerful vacuum cleaners from the US. Yay!

 

[Champakian]

Looks like the UK fared better than Nashville, so we can stop worrying about them.




Not that many of us did before...

 

[Champakian]

And we can buy powerful vacuum cleaners from the US. Yay!

Is that a "we suck" joke?

 

[oggbashan]

Is that a "we suck" joke?

No. One of the stupid EU rules is to limit the power of any vacuum cleaners that can be sold in the EU. It is supposed to help with climate change. It doesn't because we have to use the weaker vacuum cleaners more often and for longer and was really intended to stop Dyson who were eating into the market for German-made vacuum cleaners.

Of course, Dyson adapted to produce more effective cleaners at the smaller power rating...

But now we can buy industrial strength cleaners from the US.

 

[Sean]

It doesn't because we have to use the weaker vacuum cleaners more often and for longer

This is total bollocks.

 

[Champakian]

Someone doesn't vacuum...

 

[oggbashan]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1...oover-EU-labelling-european-union-james-dyson

 

[Champakian]

I must confess, I have a Dyson, one of those ball things...



I love it.

I don't even know if it's a superior vacuum or not,
but it really moves around with ease.

 

[rockcasbah]

I must confess, I have a Dyson, one of those ball things...



I love it.

I don't even know if it's a superior vacuum or not,
but it really moves around with ease.

Dyson!

 

[Champakian]

It may have been marketing more than efficaciousness...

 

[DeYaKen]

But we get longer cords on our kettles.

That was a British regulation so it will stay. The rest of Europe will continue to use British Colour coding on electric cables because the EU adopted the IEE regulations on that. We won't go back to 240 volts =or - 10% because the only thing we changed was the label on the boxes.

If you really want to we can go back to incandescent light bulbs. That was an EU directive.

 

[DeYaKen]

No. One of the stupid EU rules is to limit the power of any vacuum cleaners that can be sold in the EU. It is supposed to help with climate change. It doesn't because we have to use the weaker vacuum cleaners more often and for longer and was really intended to stop Dyson who were eating into the market for German-made vacuum cleaners.

Of course, Dyson adapted to produce more effective cleaners at the smaller power rating...

But now we can buy industrial strength cleaners from the US.

Dyson are not made in the UK. they are made in Malaysia and the company HQ is in Singapore. the only part of the company still based in the UK is the research and development section. That is why Peter Dyson supported Brexit. He doesn't live here and all his products are made abroad so he had nothing to lose. All Dyson's patents on the bagless system have now been overcome so other companies like Hoover are now using it.

The only UK manufacturer of vacuum cleaners is Numatic, makers of the Henry cleaners. However most of their production is in commercial cleaners and they are not covered by the regulations.

To say the regulations were drafted to give German companies an edge of British companies is total rubbish. Their were no British companies involved in large scale production of domestic vacuum cleaners.

We don't need to buy industrial cleaners from the US. Numatic and Nilfisk can handle all our needs in that respect.

 

[oggbashan]

Dyson are not made in the UK. they are made in Malaysia and the company HQ is in Singapore. the only part of the company still based in the UK is the research and development section. That is why Peter Dyson supported Brexit. He doesn't live here and all his products are made abroad so he had nothing to lose. All Dyson's patents on the bagless system have now been overcome so other companies like Hoover are now using it.

The only UK manufacturer of vacuum cleaners is Numatic, makers of the Henry cleaners. However most of their production is in commercial cleaners and they are not covered by the regulations.

To say the regulations were drafted to give German companies an edge of British companies is total rubbish. Their were no British companies involved in large scale production of domestic vacuum cleaners.

We don't need to buy industrial cleaners from the US. Numatic and Nilfisk can handle all our needs in that respect.

Dyson, wherever made, sells in the EU and has to comply with EU regulations. The link I provided above showed that Dyson successfully challenged EU regulations that gave an advantage to German manufacturers.

 

[Sean]

Dyson, wherever made, sells in the EU and has to comply with EU regulations. The link I provided above showed that Dyson successfully challenged EU regulations that gave an advantage to German manufacturers.

All Dyson challenged was the energy rating labels claiming that they weren't accurate because they didn't measure efficiency when the bag or cylinder wasn't empty.

 

[Champakian]

Not to nitpick, but I'll trade you a There for a Their.

 

[DeYaKen]

Dyson, wherever made, sells in the EU and has to comply with EU regulations. The link I provided above showed that Dyson successfully challenged EU regulations that gave an advantage to German manufacturers.

No it didn't it simply showed that the EU mechanism for disputing regulations worked. The quote wa all about efficiency labelling. When Dyson said the simple version that they used for all other appliances didn't work when comparing vacuum cleaners they accepted it. If there was the sort of Bias you are claiming, the European court would have thrown it out but the didn't. The fact that the court found for the appellant shows their was no bias.

The original method did not give an advantage to only German manufacturers it gave a possible advantage to all manufacturers not using a Bagless or filter less system.

 

[DeYaKen]

Not to nitpick, but I'll trade you a There for a Their.

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[oggbashan]

Not to nitpick, but I'll trade you a There for a Their.

Typos happen to all of us sometimes.

It didn't and doesn't alter the sense and logic of the post.