I mentioned in a previous posting about how the Morley Borough Independents had tried to track down some letter writers to find that they apparently didn’t exist.

In today’s Morley Advertiser, a (real) Labour Town Councillor berates them and sympathises with the views of (possibly imaginary) Mrs. Dorothy Sanders of Churwell.

Now news reaches me that the snippet is featured in Labour Watch, a website devoted to exposing the failings of the labour party.

In the interests of fairness, the website does link to hatchet jobs for all the other major parties as well! Let’s face it, it isn’t difficult to find all political parties wanting.

I did find an interesting link to a site called Polidex an online trading game. I have therefore posted my own MP up (above the Simpsons Defcon status in the sidebar), just because I can, really.

My reader may not be aware that there are some changes in the offing for wiring colour codes in medium voltage electrical installations (i.e. 230v/415v stuff).

Once upon a time, red was nasty, green harmless and black mostly harmless. Yellow and blue could also be nasty as well, and particularly nasty in conjunction with each other and red. Flex cable was red, black green as well until EU harmonisation came along. Then, Red became brown, black became blue and green was also yellow in a stripy sort of way. The green became yellow-green in permanent wiring as well, but red and black stayed.

Now, the brown/blue/yellow-green is making it into permanent installations, but just to make it more complex, yellow becomes black and blue becomes grey. All clear? You can download a handy guide care of PLASA, the professional lighting & sound association.

Just in case you think it is change for changes sake, yellow often used to be white and a very long time ago it was green. So there…

Of course for someone with a background in telephony, the worst we had to worry about was 86v AC superimposed on -50v DC which could give a nasty rash if it resulted in the victim scraping their hand up the back of the jumper tags.

-50v DC might sound quite benign but it could melt spanners when available at several thousand amps…