I know, I know Peter. The funniest thing about all this is the sight of David Cameron promising us all that he has the power to force changes in Brussels and remove some of the regulations and red tape. Why I've heard jokes by Sarah Millican which are funnier than that and that's saying something believe me.
Funny how after the wall came down, all those years ago, we found ourselves mixing up the cement to build a prison of our own making.
Ironically leading the charge for environmentally friendly vacuum cleaners which gives polar bears a longer lifespan, take millions out of poverty and even has a beneficial effect on gravity was non other than electrically powered machine designed to clean dust from various surfaces by way of suction entrepreneur Jimmy Dyson, no less.
My how he fought tooth and nail in his quest that every housewife (and house husband of course) should shoulder the responsibility to save the planet from global warming by insisting, just a few years ago, that there should be stricter regulations on the wattage of these products.
Now, however, the glove is on the other foot:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24455705
That went well young Jim didn't it?
