Looks like i will be retiring on 1st April...along with the rest of the working population of the UK.
The motor industry is about to change forever. People will not own their own cars in 10-15 years time. They will subscribe for the period of time they need it and once self drive vehicles are the norm, you will just use an app to call a car up for the next journey you are about to do. VW/Audi are about to roll out the car subscription plan across major UK cities over the next few months.
Listening to 5 Live as I finish putting the ST3 back together and they were getting very animated about the UK and the EU not having a deal on aircraft. As confirmed by a couple of industry 'experts', UK workers will not be licensed to work on an EU aircraft whilst UK aircraft will not be allowed to fly into the EU. I very stupidly forgot that before we joined the EU, you couldn't fly anywhere in Europe. Do we have individual deals with every country in the World that flies into the UK, then? I am getting increasingly confused. Most Spanish airports have far more Brits flying in on mainly UK airlines. Their tourist industry is pretty reliant on it. So Spain, which I think is awash with wealth and employment, is going to turn round and tell us and our airlines to fuck right off because our aircraft training and maintenance standards are crap. And not up to Spanish standards. Or the day we leave the UK bosses will tell the staff that they can junk all the manuals and inspection standards but just bodge everything back together with chewing gum. But they can't do that with an aircraft going to the USA, only Europe. So the staff will need to know where the aircraft may travel to before working on it. I don't get it. Is this a media con and the public are just getting told any old crap?
Legal stuff. Which is why a no deal will be a disaster across many industries. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44725606
The last thing the EU needs economically is a serious break down in trade with the UK. I sincerely hope we can quickly get back on track with Canada++ but even the so called hard Brexit would be a fudged agreement without finalised trading agreement terms that could worst case mean the UK/EU trading under WTO. There is already a framework of agreement on the security, Aviation, Euratom, intellectual rights, Citizen rights, etc. They have already factored our continued contributions over the transition period so it will cost them dearly and cause chaos if they were to withdraw it. The EU is not well placed to handle another financial crisis; just look at the Italian banking status and even the great Deutsche Bank is sick and has made large losses in the last 3 years. By the way, guess where they located their investment banking operations? London, where else!
It's terribly simple, really. The EU doesn't want to lose one of its cash-cow members but if it does, it will need the UK as a trading partner in order to survive. It also needs to send a message to other would-be leavers. The UK elites don't want to leave the EU but if they must, they must make sure that the GBP (Great British Public) doesn't blame them for the temporary upheavals that will arise from the Brexit process. So we see the current chaos played out in order to meet everyone's primary or secondary requirements that stem from the EU Ref result.
No one needs it. But the idea the EU will cave in to the UK demands at the expense of its own rules is as ridiculous now as it was two years ago. Both sides will have to compromise. May said the EU could not expect the UK to have different rules in NI to the rest of the UK. But she is expecting the EU to have different rules for the UK to everyone else. Liam Fox reckoned an agreement would be the easiest ever. Two years later he still has not managed it. The U.K. Is even less well placed to face another banking crisis. We are already deep in austerity because the Govt says it has no money.
Well, during my current fact finding mission through Europe, everyone I've spoken to reckons we were 100% correct to leave the EU. This includes France, Austria, Italy and the non EU and extremely rich Switzerland. I'm passing through Deutchland tomorrow then back to France. I'll report the results of my research in due course.
This is a mysterious statement. Do you mean to say that the Govt is lying, and is actually spending less money than it has coming in, even though the Office for National Statistics tells us that the government is spending £45bn per year MORE than it has coming in? That cannot be described as "austerity". https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/gove...ns/publicsectorfinances/march2018/previous/v1
........oh, and all the people I spoke to had never heard of Dukey. So He's making up his tales of conversation with others about Brexit. They agreed that he's a nut job though
ffs man, the state of all that' The last thing the EU needs economically is a serious break down in trade with the UK. . The last thing they need is for the Prime Minister to strut around in triumph proclaiming a glorious victory, whipping up a frenzy of British nationalism. Such an outcome would guarantee to fan the flames of the far-right forest fires now sweeping the continent. With the next elections for the European Parliament taking place just three months after Brexit, racist parties across Europe would run amok if the UK could provide proof that racism delivers national prosperity. The EU itself would then start to unravel amid a right-wing upsurge. The consequences would be terrifying. a bit extreme? possibly. i like to think probably. but who can say certainly? if its all getting sparked by immigration, the worlds problems aint gonna stop because of brexit. who will they blame next?. who are we gonna run away from next? nobody is saying the uk is awash right wing zoomers all looking to stick the nut in to anybody with a foreign accent far from it. but it also doesn't seem to be awash with those that condemn it when they do. and there's yer problem. take it from somebody who has considerably more experience of "divisive" politics than most on here. these conversations will be taking place all over the uk, i hope this place isnt an example of whats happening out in the street. its certainly a fine example on how things can escalate. if it is, yer fucked. yer patter (you know who you are) is shit. on the WWW, you make our country look shit. oh how i laughed when yer man said Americans felt unwelcome in here. children, naughty naughty children.
The Guardian is running this story today https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...t-coverage-sows-division-says-eu-commissioner Presumably it's not just me that can see the irony and frankly massive slice of hypocrisy here? Ffs
