DANIEL HANNAN: Banning vacuum cleaners isn't about saving the planet - it's about Brussels grabbing even more power - household electrical appliances

Extremist parties across Europe are on the rise.
The disaster in France's economy is likely to happen again.
The euro crisis.
Russia is invading Ukraine.
What is the EU doing? Banning high-
Electric vacuum cleaner.
Customers have been shopping in the streets, such as people on Boxing Day, snapping up the last legal appliance that uses more than 1,600 watts --
Maximum power-
Restrictions imposed by European officials and national politicians, including our own.
But it did not stop.
Brussels has been working in our homes in an orderly manner, banning any household machine that is considered to be using too much electricity.
Dishwasher, TV
Dryer, toaster: now all people have to meet the new lowpower rules. School sixth-
In the past, people often argued whether the country had any location in the bedroom.
Don't worry about the bedroom. I'm going to get the government out of my damn kitchen.
We saw a similar panic last time.
The purchase came in 2009 when the European Union banned the use of light bulbs.
A dual inventory followed: retailers quickly accumulatedto-be-
Incandescent lamps are illegal, as are consumers.
Until now, five years later, we have used these two sets of reserves.
As a result, our room was illuminated by strange light from the lower
Premium halogen lamp or LED version.
Of course, when it comes to hiding the muck to be cleared by the vacuum cleaner, dimming of the lamp can be useful.
Which consumer organizations are included?
Recommended High-
Suction cleaner is the best way to extract dirt instead of pushing it.
I cannot claim any authority on hoovering.
To be fair, there is an argument between the two sides.
Many people
Including, it is worth mentioning that my wife, I see her as the primary authority --
I think the ban is inappropriate and harmful.
And, given the panic
Buying a vacuum cleaner (with a phrase I never thought I would write), most consumers apparently agree with H.
On the other hand, Sir James Dyson
Who made these things, we can just assume that they know one or two things --
It is argued that there is no need for a well-designed machine to withstand such high wattage.
Nevertheless, it is fair to point this out, as Sir James's appliances are in all specifications in any case, and he may say so.
After all, the ban will put his competitors at a disadvantage and therefore suit him.
I don't know if Dyson is lobbying for the ban.
But this is what I saw again and again in Brussels.
Regulation introduced for so-called altruistic reasons --
For example, improving consumer safety or reducing greenhouse gases
It is actually the result of intense lobbying by special interest groups.
When I first became MEP, I naively thought that the business would oppose regulation.
I was wrong.
In fact, big companies like the rules of the EU.
They know that they can easily meet compliance costs, but their small competitors will be eliminated.
Should we really believe that banning certain vacuum cleaners will save the Earth?
It is often believed that the EU's carbon reduction targets are symbolic, not practical: the overall gains are offset several times by the output of industrialized countries such as India and China, Brazil and Indonesia
There are currently 1,200 coalfuelled power-
Gas stations in developing countries.
It is difficult to see how the EU accounts for only 12% of total greenhouse gas emissions, with any significant impact on overall greenhouse gas production.
But these gadgets only make up 12 percentage points of our household's total energy use (which in itself is part of our total carbon footprint ).
If all household appliances are banned in the EU, global carbon emissions will be reduced by about 1 percentage point.
No, it's not about saving the Earth.
It is for the benefit of certain producers and, of course, for the expansion of power in Brussels.
Whenever the EU intervenes like this, it creates an Alliance lobby group: a producer cartel that now has a vested interest in complying with the new regulations, and therefore, by implication, supports the European bureaucracy that enacted the decree.
That's why big companies tend to be closer.
Better for Brussels than SMEs.
Ironically, 40 years ago, we thought we had joined a common market.
In reality, we have joined a common regulatory system that is more interested in limiting rather than expanding consumer choices.
The opposite side of the common market.
Next EU strikelist are high-
Energy hair dryer.
Similarly, some manufacturers who have already complied with the regulations earnestly claim that we must all do our part for the environment.
Undemocratic, but I find it difficult to blame Mark Corey's logic of the National Federation of hair artists, who said: "It takes longer if you reduce power so that the client, however, if you are reducing power, you will keep the dryer longer so that they will use the same energy anyway. ’ Quite.
We are often told that the EU is not an issue for most people and that voters place it in ninth or tenth place on their list of concerns, far behind education, the economy and immigration.
But it all comes down to how we express it.
If what we call "EU" means "what's happening in Brussels" then we shouldn't be surprised that people don't have a particular workout.
Yes, they might say, corruption, expensive, undemocratic, but it doesn't have the same effect on my life, say, the state where the local school is located.
The problem is that, as the ban shows, the EU is not limited to Brussels.
It affects almost everything we do.
In order to open a bank account, you have to go through a severe test and have to bring all your old utility bills with you?
This is the EU's money laundering directive.
Fiddling around and finding the right stamp for envelopes of different sizes?
Postal Service Directive.
End of bins collection every week?
Landfill instructions
My point is not that the EU is always wrong.
It's crazy to decide these things at the continental level.
For example, the law requires me to drive to and from my children --
There was no seat until 12.
I'm always looking forward to getting rid of the poor yogurt.
Rusty spots earlier (car-
I mean seats, not children.
You may think that what I said is reasonable or that I am an irresponsible father.
Anyway, where is the cross?
Boundary size?
How do we reach the stage of unifying this rule for 0. 5 billion people?
Can't we decide these things through our own democratic process?
This is not a problem with vacuum cleaners.
This has nothing to do with carbon emissions.
This has nothing to do with the lobbying power of big companies in Brussels.
It's about freedom.
If someone wants to sell you something and you want to buy it, there should be a good reason for the authorities to stop you.
It could be a little thing.
This is a small matter compared to some hateful things that the EU is responsible --
But every such erosion will reduce US as a nation.