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Update on CMRs..... I got asked to show at border between France and Spain, by French Duane bod. So something they seem to be getting hot on, for some reason.......
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I dont recommend to mess with French Douanes. They have more rights on the road than any other institution like Gendarmerie, Police Nationale ou Police Municipale. Discussion is always the best way to go with those officers imho. As you suspect Mike its training time for those people!
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While at Britney’s Pompey check in, whenever it was I left the UK, I picked up the glossy HMGov glossy 24page A4 booklet ‘No-deal guidance for hauliers’. This was available in at least 10 different languages!
So I’ve read it twice. Am I any the wiser? Absolutely not..... |
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Good news for our travelling caravanserai of racers - UK departure delayed once again, it's now outside the racing season so at least we know where we are.
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There are now more and more concerned citizens in Europe clamoring for a new referendum...
- by the European Electorate on the latest acceptable extension date by which Brexit has to be completed 3 choices offered on the voting slip 31st January 2020 1st of February 2nd of February If no fully ratified deal by 3rd of February 2020 the Tunnel is to be sealed and flooded unilaterally. joke aside, seriously My German friends have mostly now come to round to the fact that Brexit is inevitable and just needs to be gotten over with as pragmatic as possible. RuE Last edited by Rudernst; 28 Oct 2019 at 13:02. |
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Indeed, even Mrs Merkle thinks Britain will be better off out of the EU... Go figure as they say.
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I would be interested to see where she says that, Peter. What I do know is that she has stated that she expects the UK to become a competitor to EU countries. She also believes that the UK will do so by watering down employment and safety at work regulations, and reducing taxation. I have always believed that many Brexiteer politicians and their supporters are driven by the thought that they will profit massively by making the UK a tax haven after we leave the EU. It is not surprising that the principle financial backers for the various leave campaigns and those MPs are nearly all, if not all, are all from the world of finance, whether that be certain bankers, hedge fund managers/owners and/or assorted financiers. |
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The remainers lost, and now seek to justify their opposition to a clean break, by scare mongering, and outright lies. don't be fooled, the public wanted out, the politicians wanted in. I suspect that in a few years time if one were to look in the Oxford English Dictionary for a definition of 'Referendum' it would say; 'A democratic vote in which the losers win.' |
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They compensated by increasing pensions because they were unable to pay more than (IIRC) 10 hrs overtime per month. I think you will find that our minimum wage is also higher than most, if not all, EU states, which is why people want to come to the UK. But, crucially if businesses are making a profit then it is good for the country as a whole. As a businessman I don't understand your position on this. As to low taxes etc. Why the hell not? |
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Why don't they stop all of this faffing about changing the leaving date and applying for further extensions? I think they should pick a set date for leaving and stick to it.
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To Bauble: I think that you may have misread what I wrote; I am purely referring to politicians, such as our MP who is financially supported by certain Crispin Odey who is a very wealthy hedge fund manager. Then there is Aaron Banks who pumps money into many leave campaigns, but who chooses to have his parent company (financial and insurance) resident outside the UK, using the Isle of Man, Gibraltar and elsewhere so as to avoid UK taxation.
I could go on, for example, about Mrs Leadsom whose brother in law, whose hedge fund business is headquartered in the Channel Islands, supports her in her Brexit campaign. But I won't. Hopefully you will get the picture. To Peter: You are talking about past and present as far as regulations are concerned. It is pretty obvious that Johnson and his acolytes' plans are to reduce protections and wages in the future; leaks from Number 10 and elsewhere appear to confirm this. I am now, for the third and final time, a retired business man, and with fairly conservative (small 'c', and not particularly in a political sense) views. But, I would like to think, one who had, and still maintains, a social conscience. Wages, and work conditions, are very important elements in cost overheads, but a well paid workforce can reap considerable benefits for an employer because a happy workforce tend to be far more productive in the long term, in my experience. |
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To Bauble: I think that you may have misread what I wrote; I am purely referring to politicians, such as our MP who is financially supported by certain Crispin Odey who is a very wealthy hedge fund manager. Then there is Aaron Banks who pumps money into many leave campaigns, but who chooses to have his parent company (financial and insurance) resident outside the UK, using the Isle of Man, Gibraltar and elsewhere so as to avoid UK taxation.
I take your point Mike, and agree that the level of self-interest amongst leading figures on both sides of the debate is driving much of the legislation we are seeing, and the propaganda blatantly put out by the media from both camps. I still go back to my original point; the vote was heavily influenced by the adverse publicity put out by our government etc, but the majority still wanted out, and nothing anyone can say can change that. Maybe a second referendum might bring a different result, but the first one was definitely valid. We should have been out years ago. We may be on opposite sides of the argument, but I respect your views - as wrong as they are.* * Honestly only kidding. You know me. Cheers, Bob. |
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I'm working for a Swiss Organisation to EU rules, I'm talking about now. I can tell you that we have educated the management into a higher standard of safety. I can also tell you that the employees, not contractors like me, are paid low wages and have to work long hours. As to plans for lesser standard? Have you read that there is a plan to increase the minimum wage? This will likely mean taxes remain unchanged. The monies currently going to the EU will no doubt be used for this and other initiatives. |
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It's OK, Bob, I don't take any of your nonsense to heart, anyway; in fact, I barely notice anything that you write!
However, like many people who voted to remain, I have, from the time that the result was made known, advocated that the UK must leave the EU, but it should do so on the best possible terms that it could negotiate so as to protect our industries, whether they be industrialised or service orientated, and thus provide for us and our families, now and into the future. I cannot tell you how frustrated I have been watching and listening to politicians from both sides of the argument that just base their views on political ideology, and who just love the sound of their own voices. As opposed to, say, Ken Clarke who is one of the most ardent Europhiles in the Commons, yet who voted in favour of Mrs May's deal all three times and also last week's deal. Even though he doesn't, personally, agree with either of them. I wish that their were more MPs like him. |
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Peter, let's not argue; we possibly have deeply opposing views.
However, I would add that one of my sons, who just so happens to be a fervent Brexiteer (we have agreed to not discuss Brexit) is off to Japan on behalf of his firm in the next few days to advise his old and new clients there on what is likely to be happening in the UK in the future. And the main message that he will be taking with him is that the UK, under this government especially if they win the upcoming election, will be becoming a low tax economy, one that will be beneficial for Japanese investment. As his firm are advisers to Number 10 and most of the government departments, I think that they know what they are talking about. And furthermore, I am also aware that lowering taxation can also have beneficial results for the government. My other son actually worked in the Treasury (on secondment) with Ken Clarke when he was Chancellor, and my son presented a paper (based on a computer model that he had written) to him proposing that National Insurance contributions should be reduced, and that this would increase revenue for the Treasury. The NIC reduction was introduced at the next Budget, and at the end of the first financial year after the change, the revenue increase was actually slightly ahead of his own figures. So it does work. |
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And yet according to its own figures the UK pays a net contribution to the EU?
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