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have you noticed that they are coming round to the idea that cards will not be compulsory. No doubt because they can be forged. So what is the point of checking someone is in possession of a totally credible forgery? The way the system will really work is that there will be a central database...

Rather interesting, isn't it? A remarkable opportunity for Blair to fulfill his ambitions to be a hero of Europe. he has a 6 month term coming up as chairman of the EU when he can try to create a new constitution which can be agreed. He would love it, go out after his 10 years as the man who...

You will have to make your own decision whethere there is more risk moving the socket (properly) and angering the gods of part P, or in trailing extension leads about your kitchen. As I recall, you are entitled to replace fittings in a kitchen but not move them. As far as legal liability...

Cobblers FWL, installing a circuit which will trip unnecessarily causing nuisance and possibly even danger to the occupants is not good design. Whether you like it or not, you must be well aware that any circuit you install WILL be fitted with bulbs which WILL trip the breakers. Are you the...

Well don't worry about the £93 fee either. it was only £85 just before the election. So at that rate it over 100 before they pass the legislation and pushing £200 by the time they issue any.

I expect they want to discourage hundreds of people ringing up as soon as the hedge reaches 6ft 5 in.

Did we go through a time warp? Blair is trying to get Britain into the EU? I think that right now there are quite a lot of people who want a period of wait and see before making changes to the EU. Sounds like Maggies plan is working nicely, then. But that is a very long way from saying...

Well don't worry. The first thing any dedicated terorist will do is apply for his ID card. Wouldn't want to arouse suspiscion by not having one.

No one noticed that as a QC Cherie earns a damn sight more than Tony is ever likely to? Absolutely no need for a European retirement plan there. Now, fridge mountains, there's a thought.Just exactly how has the Eu caused them? All they have done is say they must be dismantled rather than...

As said, If it was a total dead short across the supply then I think we would expect blown main fuse. If not, then something must be acting as a load and dissipating rather a lot of power. you do not seem to have had either. So we remain interested and not quite clear what was going on. It would...

It is generally recommended to connect an earth from the socket to the metal back box. This is because all accessible metalwork containing single insulated cables should be earthed. However, it has also been held that provided the back box has at least one fixed screw lug, then the screw...

This is long enough ago that it is starting to become folklore. But I remember someone researching the price rise issue. They found that although the prices had all gone up at once, the overall rise was much as you would have expected taken over a year. The effect of changing the currency was to...

You don't find Mr Coleman's publications just a little biased? Anyone notice that at the start of this current Labour rule they handed over responsibility for interest rates to the bank of England. Thereby reducing the Governments ability to manipulate rates to boost their election chances...

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So the result was a direct short live to N/E before the meter? This had sufficient current flowing to raise the voltage on the n/E to 50V? Is it just me, or is that a steady short to earth of at least 50-100A? Did anything get warm?

BAS, you are getting pretty hot on all the if's and but's these days. I remember when you were writing long articles on how stupid, pointless and a waste of time part P would B. Now you are telling people to follow it? Everyone here knows that a lot of things are a matter of opinion. It is...

Obviously he would be disposing of assets below their market value. the policy is pointless unless he does that. The argument is supposedly that there is no land cheap enough to allow building of affordable houses. So in fact, if he is actually selling the land at full value, then this is...

Weren't they charge with frightening MPs? Said on the radio that one MP testified that although he was not frightened, others were. oh yes? If MPs were the sort to get frightened by a few members of the public why are they MPs? Sounds like a frame up to me.

They do very good artificial limbs nowadays

Had a recent occasion to philosophise?