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Confusion of VIs

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  1. Corrected for you By the time FoM ends everyone who wants to come here from the EU will already be here. Even if Brexit puts off some EU citizens coming to what they now perceive as an unwelcoming and declining country, any shortfall will be made up by increasing non EU immigration, proving Brexit to have been a pointless case of a country self harming.
  2. Why a casual reader of your posts would think you were obsessed with stopping immigration and didn't have much to say about anything else. Still on the bright side you won't mind us keeping FoM then.
  3. We have. It was deciding to keep FoM in all but name. We have removed the cliff edge by removing the cliff.
  4. I think you and your ilk are the pantwetters, you are too frightened to deal with reality so have retreated into fantasy. Attacking people for being negative is usually a pretty good sign that you are unable to argue the point. l think we will soon get to the clincher, that being when we hear of "talking down" You need to open your eyes to what is happening even Nigel Farrage is getting up to speed, tweeting today that FoM will be with us for at least 8 years.
  5. For a start not all EU citizens are equal, how do you deal with all those with acquired FoM rights. Even if we crash out without a deal, these will still exist as they are protected under international law. Just doing this will require processing 3m plus claims that (because against EU advice we decided not to implement a registration system) we are ill equipped to do and as a result will probably tie up the HO (and courts handling appeals) for 20 years.
  6. Or the most grown up Brexiteer. He knows that Brexit will be bad for the UK but has decided that it should be done and is trying to minimise the damage. I wonder whether he made this choice because he is a true democrat or because he know that trying to reverse the decision would destroy the Tory party. Actually I am not wondering that much.
  7. He has to sound certain to keep the hard line Brexiteers on board. The reality is he is slowly and steadily pushing back the real Brexit date, the civil service and his business advisors thinks that the transition period needs to be +10 years long and is working towards this one step at a time. As to progress, if there has they are keeping fantastically quiet about it. Do you think this is the plan, and also the first time in history the EU hasn't leaked.
  8. You are probably right, but there are still some big companies investing in Fuel Cell technology and making equally rapid progress to the battery companies. If Toyota can deliver its promise to have solid state Lithium cells in full scale by production by 2020 (2 to 3 times the range, plus much cheaper, fast charging, almost everlasting and non flammable) I think its game over for the ICE much more quickly than anyone expects.
  9. You will have a fun time, roads all to yourself until your petrol runs out or your car is requisitioned to lead our fightback
  10. You clearly are, or at least have the potential to be, a very senior manager/director.
  11. ok just one reason why your comment is B**locks. What do you think will happen when you try to start your petrol car once all its electronics have been fried.
  12. Better batteries and Fuel cell technology are both on the way and will be here much more quickly than people expect. Which wins out, not if, is the real question. The current debate seems to be all about highlighting problems rather than looking at how they can be avoided or overcome. If anyone has never driven an electric car, pop into your local BMW dealer and its pretty easy to get a 24/48hr test drive in an I3 if you look interested but unconvinced. Chances are you will be amazed at just how quick it feels compared to whatever you are driving.
  13. That must be a mighty fine TFH you are wearing. Won't even bother going into all the reasons that comment is complete B**locks.
  14. The proposal being progressed said the period should be a minimum of 3 but more realistically 6 months, it also said a longer period could apply where applicants were going through an extended recruitment process - perhaps thinking of the civil service itself, where waiting over a year from application to starting employment is quite common.
  15. You might recall, I posted this exact "news" about a month ago. Background is the HO looked at what the UK needed from its post Brexit migration system and examined around 6 proposals in detail. Of the 6, 5 were rejected as either unworkable or unacceptable, leaving number 6 which was effectively retain FoM.
  16. The proposed system will allow EU citizens entry to look for work. If they find a job within 6 months they will automatically get a work visa providing they can support themselves and manage to stay out of jail, if not they may be subject to removal. How this differs from us properly implementing the current FoM rules escapes me.
  17. A good thing but nothing to do with Brexit, in fact the opposite, we have long been criticized by the EU for the lack of a registration process. We could an should have stopped benefits tourism from the outset of FoM.
  18. Price can be a pretty good indicator of the total C02 impact of bringing goods to market. Often C02 audits throw up some pretty surprising results eg New Zeeland lamb bought in a supermarket having a lower impact than locally produced lamb purchased at a farmers market. The world needs pants more than Rollexes. Also think about it a bit more no one buys a truckload of Rollexes, they will probably end being distributed in 1000s of individual movements.
  19. With Brexit you may get your wish to see less lorries on Britsh roads. Any resulting trade frictions will encourage companies to consolidate their supply chains in either the UK or the single market. if we get a hard Brexit it's difficult to see much future for large scale manufacturing outside the few niche areas we currently dominate (F1 springs to mind).
  20. I think your view is about 20 years out of date. In the first Iraq war the UK showed it could actually field and sustain an army on foreign soil. By the time of the second war we couldn't as shown by our strategic failure to hold Basra. After we left, embarrassingly Basra was reclaimed by the Iraqies. We then moved on to Afganistan, where we again overreached ourselves and had to be bailed out by the Americans. Since then our military might has declined further, with Brexit already providing another £10bn turn of the screw, as we scramble to make savings to pay for the increased cost of American hardware. Our last real force, the Navy is been turned into an international laughing stock by things like the carrier programme, two of the worlds biggest carriers which will eventually be equipped with a handful of the low performance short range version of an already not very impressive plane. Add to that we cannot proved the escorts necessary to defend them against a vaguely capable adversary, so they cannot be allowed to sail anywhere dangerous. This fiasco is Soon be be followed by destroyers with no ship to ship missiles - we should probably rename them from destroyers to targets. Then we have our tank force, hopelessly outdated and vulnerable Challangers. We are apparently going to have a massively expensive update programme to make them a bit less outdated, when for half the price we could have replaced them by far more capable Leapard 2 tanks from Germany. All of this will of course turn out fine as long as we don't actually end up in a war.
  21. We will almost certainly get an FTA but it will take the usual 15+ years. There are no short cuts to agreeing trade deals every industry/interest group on both sides needs to be consulted and agreement reached on all the issues raised, 25k plus brought to the table by both sides in the case of the much more limited Canada EU deal. Anyone who things that this process will be shortcut because we are already in the EU is deluding themselves. Leaving will wipe the slate clean and all of those interested parties on both (28 really) sides will be seeking to gain advantage in the new deal.
  22. According to the only major poll I have seen that asked whether people would still support Brexit if it made them poorer, just the prospect of losing £100 per month reduced support for Brexit to 21%. What percentage of the population do you think would support a "bloody hard" subsistence level existence Brexit? Why are you working yourself into such a lather about this EU punishment fantasy anyway. There is no indication the EU is out to punish us. We will become a third country still free to trade with the EU just as other non member states do. Isn't this what we voted for.
  23. 1. Not sure what you mean by keeping hand in pocket, so far ( i admit more by luck than judgement) my predictions are pretty much where we are heading. It will probably take another year or so before the government comes clean on needing a 10 to 15 year transition period but we are moving along that path quite nicely. Hard Brexit still a real possibility but now only as an accidental result of the talks breaking down. 2. Just poking a bit of fun at the people (Grizzily I am looking at you) who think the harder the kicking the economy gets the better off we will be.
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