EU hides their Toaster and Kettle bans so they don’t “galvanize” Brexit

The last think the EU want is for the British to be reminded of the EU's intrusive, pointless plans to control them from afar:

Dave Keating, Euractiv.com

EU's ban on inefficient toasters delayed to avoid pro-Brexit press attack

The EU has put plans to regulate inefficient kettles and toasters into cold storage amid fears in Brussels that they could galvanise support for the leave campaign in the UK's 23 June referendum

 Freudian slip?

Are the laws made for the people, or for the M.P's?

But in fact, these efficiency improvements have had a complicated relationship with public opinion in the past decade. Public backlash has been one of the biggest impediments to passing these EU laws.

Dang voters are an impediment to bureaucrats.

Efficiency improvements for things like toilets and lightbulbs, passed by the Commission of Jose Manuel Barroso which ended in 2014, prompted negative press, particularly in the United Kingdom.

So the British press has more spine than the French and German propaganda sheets?

Newspapers accused the European Union of meddling in the most minute details of daily life and demanded the freedom for consumers to use too much [...]

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