Another case of profit before safety

MaizieD

I do regret my hasty post of yesterday morning now that I've read the consultation document. It 'looks' quite reasonable and certainly doesn't appreciably diminish the current regulations.

I do wonder if there are any implications in changing the ultimate testing of the furniture from testing the individual components to testing the finished article.

I also wonder if it changes to the regulations would have an adverse effect on manufacturers who sell furniture into the EU as the standards would no longer be the same.

Of course, we don't actually know what the result of the consultation will be. It could be that some proposals are rejected.

I second your post MaizieD.

Sorry to divert VampireQueen but I thought Neil Patrick Harris was absolutely outstanding as The Toymaker - loved it

GrannyGrunter

I think that people should take responsibility for their own lives.

I never, ever charge electrical items overnight, I charge them when I am in the room during the day, I turn off my TV and kitchen appliances at the mains socket every night, it takes a second to do this. The only thing I leave plugged in is the fridge and my router as my Alexa works from it.

People have stopped using their common sense. In my era, I am 81 years old, we didn't have health and safety, we just got on with our lives and like I said, used our common sense.

with all due respect Grannygrunter in 'your era' people died in house fires caused by lack of regulations in furnishings, falling asleep while smoking, forgetting about chip pans, all things which you would undoubtedly describe as lack of common sense or even, heaven forfend, 'the nanny state'.