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11 minutes ago, owl sees all said:I'd quite like to see the carpet industry revamped. Stop that Belgian toot flooding in and get with the Wiltons and Axes. What a boost that would be to the carpet producing town and the Welsh sheep farmers.
If we were to renew every carpet in every home in the UK our money worries would be over. Any excess could be flogged off to India or Jamaica on the cheap.
I would also prefer if we (us UKs) would stick to eating homemade cheese and drinking home brewed wine. Let's hit these jumped-up EU countries where it hurts most.
All pie in the sky without the available disposable income. Reducing unemployment with low paid work helps no one, there is insufficient earnings to contribute to the government liabilities. Raising wages pushes prices up reducing disposable income for those on low incomes and hardship for those on benefits.
Whether you like it or not at the end of the day it is all about real jobs from investment, and foreign investment is a key factor.
An isolated independent UK will only go one way, and its not up.
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How 11th must the hour get.
But Mr Juncker responded by underlining that the EU27 would not reopen the withdrawal agreement
Speaking on her way back to London, she added:
“What I’ve set out is our clear position, that we must secure legally binding changes to the withdrawal agreement
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2 hours ago, owl sees all said:
We have got to start manufacturing stuff again; cars, TeeVees, carpets and footwear etc.
Quite, but the UK government has a dismal track record on seeing industrial initiative to fruition.
Some good news on the industrial front, Orbex has opened their headquarters in my home town.
Orbex unveiled its Prime rocket, powered by what has been described as the world's largest 3D printed rocket engine, at its new base at Forres Enterprise Park.
Considering the lack of launch capability in Europe, a bad relationship with the EU could very well see the project lose momentum. I would suspect that some European companies are keeping a close eye on developments.
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27 minutes ago, Grouse said:I blame Corbyn for not having any kind of competing alternative. The man is just not bright enough ????
Quite, No opposition party has ever had a better opportunity to step up to the plate.
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16 hours ago, aright said:
I tend to lean on the side of a decision which was a better business plan.
Had logistics and the single market been of over riding importance they could have produced their new car in Spain.
You really think it would have been a good business plan to announce production in Europe at this point in time.
When the dust settles watch out for Slovakia and an X-Trail with a European petrol engine.
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5 hours ago, CG1 Blue said:
Not sure why you think countries will not want to have trade deals with the UK, and why the UK couldn't speed up the process by using existing EU deals as templates.
UK wants to make deals all around the world, based on deals made by the EU, who does that make sense to.
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On 2/4/2019 at 11:20 AM, Loiner said:
I’m not the paranoid one here, I’m quite relaxed about interim standards markings.We are all perfectly aware how "relaxed" some are over the cost of brexit to business. Been there since day one, brexit means brexit, whatever the cost.
Only the mentally challenged would think that change does not involve cost.
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On 2/4/2019 at 12:29 PM, billd766 said:
You may be missing something if you read the link from madmen.
Try this link from the BBC news website this morning.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47107561
By Rob Young, BBC business reporter
There's been a run of bad news from the car industry in recent months.
Job losses have been announced at Jaguar Land Rover and Ford and the cancellation of Nissan's X-Trail investment at its Sunderland plant is just the latest disappointment from a sector that was booming a few years ago.
There are many who want to say this is all down to Brexit. But it's not.
Declining car sales in China, the world's biggest car market, have unnerved the industry worldwide. As have falling car sales and an economic rough patch in Europe.
There are questions over whether diesel technology has a future after governments, who pushed it hard until a few years ago, and drivers, who previously liked its fuel efficiency, have become less keen on it.
In the UK, this is all set against the backdrop of Brexit uncertainty.
We are all quite aware that there are various problems in the car industry but the one thing we will never know is would the investment have been withdrawn if the UK had negotiated to remain in the single market.
The diesel problem and the increase in Chinese car production haven't come about recently, unlike the escalating brexit chaos and a Japan/EU FTA.
There won't be much foot left to shoot at soon.
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21 hours ago, Loiner said:
So not a real problem then, just EU protectionist measures. They could just say "Well we used BS to make many of our EN anyway. Unless UK suddenly starts changing their standards from 30th March, a new (or the old) BSI kitemark will suffice for a while." But they and you Remainers wouldn't would you?
Yes it is about protection, consumer protection, but consumers are not very high on the paranoids list of priorities.
As for BSI, I used to sit on a committee but you are free to think what you like.
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8 hours ago, nontabury said:
Correct. No jobs are expected to be lost. Regarding the x-trail, this model has been put on hold,due to market uncertainty, not exclusively to Brexit.
What you will see now,is that every time a company makes a negative decision based on market expectations, the remoaners will delight in trying to put the blame on Brexit.
Not on hold and leaving the EU is a relevant factor.
"For those reasons the company has decided to optimise our investments and concentrate production in Kyushu, instead of adding another production site. For the European business, this does not change the fact that X-Trail is – and will continue to be – a crucial model for us.
“Today’s announcement will be interpreted by a lot of people as a decision related to Brexit. We have taken this decision for the business reasons I’ve explained, but clearly the uncertainty around the UK’s future relationship with the EU is not helping companies like ours to plan for the future.”
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18 hours ago, Loiner said:
You’ve missed the point. Same product, both sides of Brexit day. Same manufacturers and same trading businesses.
You are just looking for problems that don’t really exist. Anybody would think you didn’t want to Leave the EU.
Sent from my iPhone using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile appAnd anyone would think that those that are quite prepared to ignore procedure would be happy for anarchy to reign. Would appear to be the intention of many.
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8 minutes ago, Loiner said:
So nothing to do with Brexit then? Japan can bring their UK factory jobs back home to Japan, because they have a new free-trade deal with the EU. Our partners in Brussels working against the UK interest again.
It is the UK working against the UK by not being prepared to participate in that FTA, and that has something to do with brexit.
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7 minutes ago, Loiner said:
If a product has a CE mark on 29th March, what's the actual problem with exactly the same product manufactured one day later on 30th March?
If the certificate has not been renewed in Europe by 29th March then the mark cannot be used and technically the product cannot be sold. At the moment it is all as clear as mud.
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7 minutes ago, evadgib said:
During Sky's Press review this morning a panelist opined that this relates to a THIRTY GRAND Diesel SUV that Nissan had realized was hardly likely to be flying out of the showrooms at that price regardless of Brexit & same could be said of Jaguar/LR etc.
It doesn't really matter what you, I or the media think, it's more to do with the reality surrounding the car industry. In a time of general uncertainty it is not a smart move to start upsetting those holding the purse strings.
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23 minutes ago, Loiner said:
Maybe its more to do with the EU anti diesel rules?
EU. A spin and subjugation story
Of course, the whole article can be taken as a spin, the UK are obviously going to get a better deal with Japan than the EU.
The reports follow the announcement of a free-trade deal between the EU and Japan on Friday. The EU will reduce the 10% duties on car imports to zero by 2027, with Japan’s government estimating it could increase GDP by 1%, the BBC reported.
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10 hours ago, evadgib said:
Headache?
Ignorance is hardly a valid argument.
CE certificates issued in the UK will no longer be valid so business can no longer use the CE mark. Business must change their ways which means having the necessary markings and documentation redone, a headache and cost that business can well do without.
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On 2/1/2019 at 8:37 AM, overherebc said:
Income 35,000 a month =420,000/year.
Keep 380,000 in the bank and book update every 3 months showing income in theory should satisfy the requirement.
For those that are married, may as well have the 400K and forget the income. Going from gross income on the letter to Thai deposits is the real problem for many.
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10 hours ago, nontabury said:
It’s all about Democracy and not being a selfish remoaner.
That is a good one. We are all perfectly aware what brexit democracy means - Telling Scotland, Ireland & Gibraltar to do what they are told by the English that were manipulated into what they voted for.
Political strategist Gerry Gunster, from Leave EU, told BBC Panorama that Facebook was a game changer for convincing voters to back Brexit.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39830727
Pro-Brexit campaign group Leave.EU and the Arron Banks firm Eldon Insurance have been fined £60,000 each for illegal marketing messages.
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25 minutes ago, OJAS said:
But @Shoeless Joe has already explained that his existing occupational pension transfers are already coded "International Trade and Factoring Centre TFN05030". I hardly see how including his State Pension in future transfers could affect that classification!
It was a general enquiry rather than specific. In all the discussion on this topic there doesn't appear to be any common denominator, very much hit and miss on what appears on the statement.
Shopping around to get the right combination of UK and Thai banks to satisfy immigration seems to be taking things a bit too far.
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5 hours ago, yogi100 said:
The Independent is a pro EU publication that wants us to remain in the EU and you can bet your Mr Hawes who is a big wheel in the car manufacturing Industry is mainly concerned about his profits and those of his fellow business executives.
Meanwhile 17.4 million Brexiteers are more determined than ever that imported cheap labour from Eastern Europe will not threatened their livelihoods any more than it already has done.
If the politicians had not insisted on flooding the country with immigrants few of those 17.4 million people would have been at all concerned about our being part of the EU.
Undemocratically imposed mass immigration has been a controversial subject for years and given rise to populism across the Western world and our wish to quit the EU are the results of that stupidity.
The trouble in France is because Jean Bloggs and his chums are sick of having to fork out the money required to fund the globalist policies of the EU.
So called 'right wing' or 'far right' organisations are appearing all over Europe again because of that same stupidity.
It's the stupidity of the politicians that is causing this trouble not the 'racist' nor 'neo nazi' element that the 'elite' tell us are now prevalent among the European people.
TM stood up and said austerity was over but omitted to mention she was referring to phase 1. The brexiteers are obviously looking forward to phase 2 and they don't mind sharing it with the whole of the UK, as long as they don't have to share it with foreigners.
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5 hours ago, BritManToo said:
I believe they sell beef, when I were a lad all the UK's beef came from the Argentine, and it was really good.
The EU ended all the cheap beef imports though, and it became a luxury item.
Yes, I got a free holiday in 1964, I was home on leave in NE Scotland at the time of the Aberdeen typhoid outbreak from Argentinean corned beef. I couldn't return to my unit until after the incubation period.
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19 hours ago, OJAS said:
Why not simply ask the IPC to pay your State Pension into your UK account instead of your Kasikorn one?
You could then combine it with your occupational pension into single monthly transfers each amounting to 65k+ and coded as "International Trade and Factoring Centre TFN05030".
How would you instruct a UK bank to ensure that, or any other, coding would appear on a Thai bank statement?
I use online banking and transfers from my UK account show up on my Thai statements as "Transfer via EXIM" - EXIM being the Export Import Bank of Thailand.
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13 hours ago, yogi100 said:
Extreme Brexit 'could' be worse than financial crisis for UK: BoE
Use of the word 'could' also can mean it could not.
My saying 'I could win the lottery tomorrow' also might mean 'I could not win the lottery tomorrow.'
The BoE are pro EU financiers who are just scaremongering.
Yes it is all "scaremongering", who knows what the extreme brexit will bring, a massive boost to a rapidly deteriorating situation?
The pigs are refuelled, BF'd and ready to fly.
As he released the latest figures for investment and production in Britain’s car factories and supply chains, Mr Hawes said it was “not a pretty picture”, and he repeated that a “no deal” Brexit was the worst outcome of all, indeed an “existential threat” for British industry, and that all forms of Brexit were an exercise in “damage limitation”.
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Extreme Brexit could be worse than financial crisis for UK: BoE
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Mr Juncker was speaking on behalf of the EU27 and it says a lot if you believe them to be unelected.