Banning Plasma TVs – 21st Century, or the Victorian Age?

January 13th, 2009 Written by Biz

I read with some bemusement, but no real sense of surprise about the latest EU wheeze to downgrade the quality of all our lives and ban Plasma TV’s at some time in the near future. Apparently, the unelected, unaccountable and highly overpaid morons at the EU have unilaterally decided that Plasma Screen TV’s are going to destroy the environment and have, thus, decided to ban them.

Now, last time I looked, this was the 21^st Century and I believed that as time progressed, we were all meant to benefit from the ubiquitous bounties of modern technology in ever greater measure, but in actual fact, moves such as banning Plasma Screen TV’s, take us closer to the Victorian Age!

But lest you think that this Victorian Age analogy is somewhat exaggerated, you are plain wrong because this banning of Plasma TV’s is actually only one of a set of creeping measures enacted, about to be enacted or currently proposed by these Porcine no-goods that literally negate all the joys and benefits that scientists had previously laboured for years to try to bring to us.

In passing, I must explain that I use the term Porcine quite deliberately, as I can only envisage that someone would only actually want a job at the EU if they were so utterly incapable of any useful contribution to society at large that they couldn’t get a “real” job anywhere else and that they, therefore, saw an EU job as something that would enable them to live out the rest of their sad insignificant lives on a huge salary, outrageously indulgent benefits; and no doubt huge “backhanders” for rubber stamping moronic laws without question. “Snouts in the troughs conjours up a suitably illustrative analogy”.

Anyway, these are the same obviously inbred nare-do well’s that also brought into force the utterly preposterous, but now practically enacted, laws to ban 100w light bulbs and replace them with those not only ugly, but also utterly useless (and potentially toxic) “energy saving” light bulbs. These bulbs have all the luminous power of Florence Nightingale’s lamp and make life dull and miserable to a measure that was only probably equalled back in Victorian times.

It is also these same so-called EU “representatives” whose loss of all reason can only be analogous to some poor unfortunate, lost in the depths of Syphilitic induced insanity, who are proposing that speed limits on roads be automatically enforced by in-car technology. This, once again, will choke all joy from our lives; after all that’s the whole point of a car, is it not to experience speed, freedom and the sheer joy of the wind in one’s hair; or at least it was when I got my first car in the 70’s. Soon it seems I am destined to feel less wind in my hair some 40 years on than was possible in my Ford Granada; sad indeed!

But ultimately, where does the blame lie for this series of EU diktats which will ban my Plasma TV, my 100W light bulbs and reduce my motoring to a sedentary pace not experienced for many decades?

The surprising answer is that the buck stops here; with you and I!

Without our own consent and supplication to their moronic diktats, the faceless good-for-nothings in the EU and every Government, would be nothing and neither would their stupid and self serving laws; they get away with it, because we let them and then just whinge about it.
So what can we do?

Well, I’m sorely tempted to suggest that we emulate Guido Fawkes in his 1605 attempt at dispatching a similar bunch of no-goods, however, there is a better way.

By typing the term “EU MEP” into your search browser you will find “europarl.org.uk” at the top of the page; this will give you a list of your local MEP’s.

Send them a mail and ask them whether they endorsed the plasma TV ban, whether they abstained or whether they just plain couldn’t be arsed to turn up on a matter that affected you personally, because they were attending an EU symposium at a 5 star hotel in Strasbourg for 5 days, all expenses paid, with A la Carte dining and more trollps thrown in than you’d see at Raymond’s Revue Bar!

Then post their response here and I will personally chase up the most promising ones and write at length on their reply.

Of course, you can decide to just sit back and take it like some catamite at “the Blue Oyster Bar” if you want. As for me personally, if it gets as bad as I perceive that it might, I’ll head off for sunnier shores…where I can smoke in public places, drive like a lunatic, illuminate my house brighter that the Chinese Olympic opening ceremony, with as many 100W bulbs as I like… oh, and did I mention Raymond’s Revue Bar?

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