Legalities of changing sockets and brakes in England?

I'm not sure about that.

Bad brakes are less likely to cause:

While poor electrical work often leads to fire.

Nowadays only in your own home, only endangering you or your own family. But if you end up with no brakes, you could kill many innocent strangers by crashing into them. Why do you think cars are inspected annually for safety but houses aren't?

While I'm no fan of Part P and I'm not defending it, perhaps you'd be less irate if you checked a decent source.

That one has obvious contradictions. Eg: Look at the entry referring to sockets in both lists. (Item 1 in first list, 3&4 in second list.)

I guess it's one of those rules that nobody understands. A (Scottish, therefore not subject to part P) electrician told me you couldn't even replace a lightswitch in England without a certificate.

It's not about safety.  The electrician's union owns more government lawmakers than the mechanic's union.

Which electrician and which mechanic are you referring to?

Did you read his post at all? He referred to a union, not an individual.

Did you not see where the apostrophes were at all? They referred to an individual's union in each case.

You make the assumption he's one of the few who puts the apostrophes in the right place. Most will write "electrician's union" to mean the union for all electricians.

Indeed. We'd be better off with no government at all. Why should we have a group of people watching over us? There should be a "none" on the voting form.

I do bugger all on my car, usually because something that needs replacing is old enough to be rusted solid and I either break it, the tool, or my hand, trying to free it. But electrical work is very easy.

Prick.

Doesn't stop him from being a serial apostrophe abuser, however.

That should have been electricians' union and mechanics' union, as any skoolboy knows.

He's obviously not.

Only the illiterate would do that...the same sort of people who think plural's take apostrophe's.

Heterosexual mails tend to be pour spellers.

I'll assume you refer to the last sentence. So, you can't change a lightbulb yourself?

Go take your OCD medication, we're not interested.

Almost nobody puts apostrophes at the end of a word anymore.

I know an electrician named Bob.  I also know a mechanic named Bob.

My original statement was:

"Bob's union owns more government lawmakers than Bob's union. "

But I realized that was confusing.  So I reworded it to:

"The electrician's union owns more government lawmakers than the mechanic's union"

I'll try harder next time.

Tim Streater is one of those moronic OCD f*****ts who can't understand a sentence unless it's perfectly grammatically correct. Like anyone places apostrophes' like that anymore.