It seems there’s an election in the air – zero-tolerance, support for “have-a-go heroes”, extra-clean hospitals, complaints about violence on TV – and that’s just from the Labour (ie supposedly “left wing”) side – who knows what the Tories will manage to find in response to that – “back to basics”? (Despite the fact it seems the leader’s wife, while now just doing the “supportive spouse” stuff, has both a real career, and a real politics – Green Party.)
But should we be writing the final days of a Labour government, I think this story sums it up: Britain is going to get rid of inefficient incandescent lightblubs, but very, very slowly, and only because big business has agreed it can.
Currys has agreed to stop selling the bulbs by the end of this year, Habitat by 2009, Woolworths, the Co-op, Asda, Morrison’s, and Sainsbury’s by 2010, and Tesco by 2011. Only Somerfield has declined to give a date for a complete phase-out.
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