Please save me from tepid bath water

So there’s this nobody woman labour MP on the radio this morning, saying how babies basically die in scalding water (!) and they covered the case of some moron whose kid was scalded.

So instead of sensibly concluding that the person who put their kid in the 70C water should be immediately sterilized as patently unfit to bear anymore children and prosecuted for neglect, the MP for dimwits everywhere smoothly concludes that;

“Anti-scald valves should be fitted to all properties”

For a brief few seconds I couldn’t believe she actually meant what she said, but she went on to explain how building regulations should be changed, so that it is physically impossible to get water above say 45C in your bath. She went onto say that this change should be retrospective and that all UK properties should be fitted with these.

Amazingly, people texted the show complaining about how they went to the cinema and the water was too hot to wash your hands….the government should take action etc. How infantile have people become if they can’t take responsibility to mix hot and cold water in the sink ??

The implications of this seemed lost on the presenter. Top of my head, I imagine potential problems of such a scheme to be:

1. Cost – at say £100 a pop, 30 million homes on the UK, just the £3Billion then
2. Doing it – can’t get a plumber now, let alone if this ever became law
3. Enforceability – some guy puts such a tap on my bath, I’m taking it straight back out

And with all due respect, the day the government tells me what temperature water its safe to bath in, and enforces this by means of legislation, is the day I leave the UK.

It’s an interesting Litmus test on how interventionist government MP’s see the population at large ~ as brainless fuckwits whose every action should be controlled and monitored. That’s the most worrying thing of all.