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Nice ride, Chekhov. A very good friend of mine has long had a Robin Hood with a very tweaked Pinto in it. Last week I received the 2024 car tax notice : âŹ25! After 22 years of ownership, that's it, she's officially a classic! đ Topically for the thread , many cars owned both before that MX5 and meanwhile, from the mundane (AX, BX, Brava, Imprezas (non-T), V50, C220) to the extraordinary (CX GTI T, Delta HF T, Imprezas WRX). Aside from the Brava and V50 (late Friday shift-built), I have appreciated them all, but the current family wagon is the best by a country mile: First car in 22 years to start holding a candle to the MX5, in the smiles-per-mile . Always been a petrolhead, and of course there's been many cars I wanted or had opportunities to get, but did not (e.g. original M3, *any* TVR) and these days I'm getting a lil'old to be lusting after Porsches, Ferraris and whatnot. Not sure what to replace the XE with, if I were to ever part with it. Another RWD 6-pot, if anyone still makes any by then.
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Closer to 48% (LUSTAT Data Explorer âą Total population, Luxembourgers and foreigners, of usual residence in Luxembourg by sex (statec.lu)) AFAIK Lewis Hamilton still lives in Monaco, much much tax-friendlier to the wealthy, than Luxembourg which is not that much friendlier than others (Luxembourg Tax Rates & Rankings | Luxembourg Taxes (taxfoundation.org)) Spent some time in the UK a couple weeks ago, visiting my offices in Surrey and Greater Manchester, then friends and family in South Yorks. So one of those visitor/business visas could have been mine, though it certainly wasn't printed (or, if it was, then I never received any copy). Not the best time of year for that trip, unfortunately. Hugs and Kisses to all đ -
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You do realise of course that, by the very example that you quote, clearly EU membership had no bearing on a countryâs sovereign choices about its Covid-mitigating policies? Literally every single justification for Brexit put forward by Leavers since actual Brexit, follows the exact same logic: EU membership never prevented the UK from enacting or pursuing its chest-thumping policy choices since 2021. Pity you didnât catch the irony of your post when you typed it. Edit - on the topic of Poland and Hungary, mentioned lately. https://www.dw.com/en/rule-of-law-eu-reprimands-poland-and-hungary/a-66165982 Small example, there are many more. You start playing against your own club on the field, you soon get benched and fined. Whoâd have thought, <etc> Of course, itâs your everyday Hungarians and Poles, not really the Orbans or PIS types of this world, who suffer most from those measures. But well, Hungarians, Poles, etc. keep electing those populist autocrats. So, well, usual f around-find out dynamic. Like Brits, Tories and Brexit, really đ -
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It was always going to happen, once UK mobile corporates were relieved from the EU trade rules-based obligation to implement and maintain free roaming intra-EU. We are now a good few years past proving, beyond any reasonable doubt, that any promises or assurances by Leavers in 2016 were, at best and to put it charitably, uninformed drivel. Moreover, and after all, any trade/economic counter-arguments made by the Remain side of the debate on the basis of facts and logic were, both before and after the referendum, steadfastly shutdown by Leave-quoting useful idiots arguing that Brexit was about sovereignty, not the economy, and that taking the economic hit was worth achieving Brexit. No point linking outside SF, there must be hundreds, if not low thousands, of such posts over the years, in the original âHow will you voteâ Brexit-themed thread, and then the various âConsequencesâ threads since. example: For the sake of your blood pressure, maybe better get used to consequences like the loss of free roaming already. Youâre still only at the very beginning of the âfinding outâ phase. -
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Good grief, are you guys still arguing about who said what 7 years ago? After 7 years, no one is ever going to convince the Brexit zealots or the idiots. Their cognitive bias is 6 feet thick, of solid titanium. Leave them where theyâre happy to be, ignore them and let old age do the work for you. Brexit is done. The UK has been out of the EU for over 2 years. Nobody but the UK press and government gives a damn much, anymore. And positively noone outside the UK. The UK is where it is, and consequences continue to accrue because of it. Move the discussion on. -
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Some of us did explain, nearly 8 years ago now, and with added emphasis 6 years ago after Theresa Mayâs Lancaster speech, how Brexiting would affect- (i) the UKâs services sector-led economy: no UK policy focus *whatsoever* pre-referendum, nor at any times since, *ever*, on services (cue banking, asset management, insurance, legal, etc services all gone from the U.K. to Ireland (Dublin mostly, hence Irish GDP effect in more recent times), the Continent (Paris, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Amsterdam) and the US (New York mostly)) and (ii) supply lines used by UK âmanufacturersâ (whose business model of offshoring all manufacturing to China and Vietnam, already old by then, would run afoul of the EUâs rules of origin) in and amongst so many other fully-predictable economic consequences of hard Brexiting. But well. Farage and Leaveâs snake oil rubbish, âProject Fearâ, âhas enough of expertsâ, German car manufacturers, âthey need us more than we need themâ, âitâs about sovereignty not the economyâ and all that mountain of other cretinous slogans peddled by the right wing media, found its audience alright. You werenât helped by your political leaders. Lest we forget- https://x.com/AlexTaylorNews/status/1068080900037099522 You still havenât been since, either. -
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How much food on British tables and roofs over British heads does the Eurovision song contest bring? Trade, on the other hand⊠-
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Trade-wise, in these post-Brexit days, it is so, more than ever before: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/25/ports-france-ireland-brexit-cherbourg-rosslare -
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Why was freedom of movement a big issue for the UK? Looking at the sheer volume of Brits moaning at the personal consequence of losing FoM when eventually experiencing it at the coal face in their jobs, holidays, retirement <etc> as related by the MSM (mostly the right wing press, irony of ironies)âŠmost people still donât seem to understand it now, 7 years on. Edit - example #2457: https://x.com/Seven7Kevin/status/1701573699667726436?s=20 400+m EU27 citizens did not lose FoM. They âlostâ the UK as 1 of 28 opportunities. 67m Brits lost FoM, completely but for the historical CTA with Ireland. -
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Ah, so itâs âor somethingâ then. Best leave it there with you, Iâm told itâs not nice to mock the afflicted. Came to this thread for a look-see, thought Iâd post some benefits. Look what ÂŁ75m of your hard-earned tax money spent on German manufacturers bought you: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/11/bmw-u-turns-on-plans-to-move-electric-mini-production-from-uk-to-china đđ» -
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Do you have issues with reading comprehension, or something? -
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If you researched and answered your own question, you could present your debating argument. I can only presume that you are incapable of doing basic online research, or that you do not have any argument worth making. In the meantime, the point stands - unchallenged by your testiculations of the last 2 pages: the U.K. handles a tiny fraction of the asylum seekers making their way through the EU, multiples of which get handled by Germany, France and others. So quit moaning and own your stats. -
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The UN is not an anonymous internet source. Neither is the EU. Neither is the Red Cross. Neither is <etc>. If you should be so devoid of critical thinking faculties, as to class every official source of immigration statistics as âanonymousâ, shorthand for âinvalidâ no doubtâŠthere isnât a debate worth having with you Iâm afraid. As for my reluctance, it is to get drawn into your nonsensical -and rather desperate by now- diversion (âbut but but Luxembourgâ) from the original point: Germany, 70m inhabitants, handled 243k asylum seeking applications 2023 YTD. France, 67m inhabitants, 156k. Spain, 47m inhabitants, 118k. The U.K., 67m, 78k (end Jun 23). -
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And I asked you why did you bring up that country (itâs not mine), as your first and only reply to a post drawing attention to the difference in volumes of refugees respectively handled by the U.K. and some EU countries. Since you couldnât be @rsed to find the answer to your own question in the first place, a 2 minutes-Googling away. Do you believe that such stats, for a country of 650k inhabitants (48+% foreign-born) which is 95% smaller than the U.K., is critical to discussing that point? Canât wait to read your explanation as to why that is đ -
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No answer to what? The question which you are desperate for me to answer, for furthering your strawman argument along? When you could be finding out the answer yourself with a little searching for around 5 minutes? For the rest of it, Iâm insulted that you feel insulted. I did not have you down, as a poster willing to target little boats in the Channel, but maybe I missed your posts stating that opinion? By all means, feel free to stop debating. But maybe give it a start first, eh?