Not-very-low-energy bulbs

[polygonum]

I see you campaigning to close down Boots? To make illegal all imports of all drugs?

[Nightjar]

Mostly Lidl's best, with a few 12W from Homebase where the 3W Lidl lamp output was not good enough.

Colin Bignell

[harryagain]

Well this is UK DIY. So if you aren't UK you should bugger off?

[harryagain]

Hmm The ones I have are the spotlight type. Not suitable for everywhere. I'll have a look in those places.

[polygonum]

How many people with BT internet email addresses are not UK?

[charles]

I have a friend on Guernsey.

[polygonum]

And does your friend in Guernsey happen to have a BT internet email address?

I think we could regard Guernsey as, perhaps, a touch small to justify its own NG? So honorary UK-ers in that regard.

[charles]

Yes, which is why I mentioned him.

[Adrian]

And the rest...

Mitsu i-Miev, isn't it? List price £28500 before the £5k subsidy. Last UK list for the petrol i (before they discontinued it since nobody was buying 'em) was about ten grand.

[John Williamson]

Another false assumption. I live in the UK and I have done for more than

50 years.

Not doing too well, are you, Harry?

[bert]

In message , harryagain writes

That may be true but the subsidy comes from tax payers and most is related to income or spending. (Income tax and VAT) Your subsidy however is added to other peoples electricity bills and is very regressive hitting poorest families the hardest.

[harryagain]

I dunno. I expect you have it written down somewhere.

[harryagain]

Belongs tothe Queen?

[The Natural Philosopher]

The Labour government adopted the EU principle that whilst people noticed direct taxation and complained, steadily rising prices on all goods could be explained away, and most people would fail to make the linkage between general inflation and *legislation* that increased prices as opposed to *taxation* that increased prices.

A tax on the profts of the companies so favoured by legislation would then pull the money into the exchequer in a much more socialist friendly way. Taxes on COMPANIES are always favoured by the Left.

The same ws done with debt. Give investors tax breaks or guranteed incomes via PFI to ensure their money goes into political projects, which you then take credit for if they work, and blame capitalism for if they dont.

[Tim Streater]

Precisely. Labour: not just the nasty party [1], but dishonest as well.

[1] Something I've known for nearly 60 years, but the recent revelations of Damian NcBride, official Witch Doctor to G. Brown (worst PM in living memory) have merely confirmed it.