Lights Tsar

[Gromit]

// The Coalition will this week begin recruiting thousands of workers for the organisation, which is to be headed by a dedicated “Lights Tsar”.
Employees will be tasked with going door-to-door to businesses and homes to manually switch off unnecessary lights. Staff at the agency will be able to issue penalty notices to repeat offenders and will be armed with binoculars and other equipment to allow them to ascertain whether rooms are empty or in use.

One source said: “It’s the little things that count. Do you really need the kitchen light on when you’re watching TV in the living room? We don’t think so and we’re aiming to come down hard on those who do.” //

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/9964387/Government-to-appoint-Lights-Tsar-to-get-Britain-switching-off.html

A good idea stopping wasteful energy use?
or
Big brother, surely they have more important things to do?

[EDDIE51]

My wife is disabled and finding it harder to manage the stairs now. We can't have a stair lift as our stairs have 2 corners on the way up. We are now looking to get a 1 bed bungalow or ground floor flat. By the way the council will pay up to £5000 + moving costs if tenants volunteer to downsize. The amount depends on how many bedrooms you free up .

[ummmm]

The council are going to have to get building!!

[anotheoldgit]

That's brilliant Gromit thinks something is true because it was printed in the Telegraph on 'all fool's day', and who also in a previous thread had said that he couldn't provide a link from the paper because it now had a pay-wall.

I would start depending more on the Daily Mail if I were you Gromit.

[Gromit]

I didn't say I couldn't provide a link because of the paywall, I said I didn't provide a link because of it. If I can copy and paste without posting the link to the Telegraph, I will do from now on.

[modeller]

Switching lights off soundS OK but it may not be economic . Tests have been carried out in the past and it was found that bulbs left permanently on
had a much longer life. The bulbs with the shortest life were those being constantly being switched on and off. Their life span was only 10% of a tungsten bulb left permanently on .
I haven't seen figures for long life bulbs but I have found those in table lamps have the shortest life but other factors are also involved, movement and orientation of the bulb.

[boxtops]

LOL

[emmie]

best gotcha of the day i reckon.

[chaptazbru]

Very funny, but nothing this government does would surprise me !!

[emmie]

Eddie, was told 1,000 pounds. Another April fools joke perhaps...