yorky

Ladbrokes don't think so Sarko 2/1 Royal 6/4. Of course you might want to put your money on a also ran loser. Yorky  

It's quite simple, he's not going to give free beer to all the workers and he's going to cut benefits by 50%. Ban trade unions and meeting of more than 4 people. Fire 70% of the civil servants. Tax all immigrants on all their assets except people who have specific businesses employing more than 5 french people. All this sound quite reasonable to me. Yorky  

Looking at press reports it was just another free beer for all the workers promise without telling where it would come from. Yorky

I had a annual policy to cover hire car excess. It cost me about £50 but it only covered cars with a new value of around £30000. I don't have it anymore because my CA and CIC and AMEX gold cards cover the excess if you use them to pay for the car rental. Yorky

If you have a sarl and  you are not the gerant majorataire then if you draw smic or just above smic then your social charges are around 21% for the company and then around 20% for you as a employee. You can then pay yourself and the other shareholders dividends so avoiding most of the social charges except for the odious and totally illegal 11% hole filler. However if you pay yourself say 1400€ per month then the employers social sec charge goes up to 40%, which is totally obscene and which is one of the 100 good reasons not to vote for the Royal family. Yorky

Is it just a cattery or do you intend to take dogs? Yorky

[quote user="Sunday Driver"] Sorry, Yorky, but it does exclude French residents.  The quoted policies are available for UK registered vehicles that are outside the UK for the long term, but as French residents are not permitted to drive UK registered vehicles in France, then it can't apply to them.  Only UK residents may drive UK registered vehicles in another EU member state and (with the exception of some areas of business use) only for a maximum of six months in any twelve month period.    [/quote] Yes it may be the case that it is unlawfull to have a uk reg car if you are a resident but if you want to break that law you can still have a insured car. You are not trying to say that if someone borrowed a uk reg car he couldn't drive it in France. Anyway as someone else pointed out the good old French are good. or should I say expert at going around the law so with all the talk of integration shouldn't we all be behaving like the French do? Yorky

[quote user="ErnieY"] [quote user="yorky"]Have a look at www.stuartcollins.com they broker AXA polices[/quote]I think the salient point from this site is: "Unlimited Temporary Travel to Europe"   This requires the vehicle and the insured person to be based in the UK. It is ideal for:

Have a look at www.stuartcollins.com they broker AXA polices. I find insurance in France quite expensive and it is quite untrue that the cost of registration is cheap. In any case it is sometimes difficult to pin point where you are a resident I spend sometime in the uk, France Ireland and Germany and I am a fiscal resident of the uk. By the way I wonder if anyone has first hand experiance of being at the wrong end of a expat driving without insurance ect or are all the tales those of the little people that appear after the second bottle of plonk? Yorky 

[quote user="Ron Avery"] "AXA have a policy for uk reg cars kept out of the uk with no time restrictions and are ok with a address which is out of the uk ie anywhere in the civilised bit of europe." Have they really Yorky? Perhaps you let us know which AXA office issues such a policy to a French resident? But, I bet you know somebody who has got one like that don't you, like you know all these French people who drive in the UK without changing their registrations, so its OK for the brits to do the same, right?.  The facts of it are that unless you move to the UK from France you can drive as much as you like in the UK,  the same is true as for a UK resident in France, but you will be very lucky to find a high street UK insurer who will give you an unlimited overseas travel, 90 days is the most you will get fully comp with a genuine UK address.  Although in theory you will be covered for third party risks outside of the 90 days as soon as the insurer finds out that you are lieing, and would that not be the case if you tell them that you live in the UK when you really live in France yoir insurance would be invalidated  Yes, you can get policies in the UK for frequent overseas travel,  not from AXA though, some insurers do not even want to be told when you are out of the country, I know the RAC do one, but these are for people who live in the UK,  NOT who have an address of a relative in the UK.  So if you live in France and complete a form that says that you live in the UK, that policy is inmmediately null and void and would be declared so if you were to have an accident in France. I know people who drive "legal" UK registered cars and bother to take them back 800miles all the way to the UK each year and MOT and tax them, why you ask as it is far cheaper and easier to get French registration and pay far less tax and insurance, they must be mad?  Well maybe not,  the truth is that most of them have "dissappeared" out here and are not registered for tax, health care etc here, but more importantly they do this to hide their gite income, all that is conveniently paid in by £ cheques to an address in the UK, so to keep under the tax radar, they don't register their cars here either as they would be in danger of being picked up to pay the taxes and contributions that they should be  In the UK they would be called tax dodgers and scroungers, what would you call them Yorky? Clever people? [/quote] I have to correct you AXA do issue a policy for cars kept out of the uk. I wonder if you would accept a small wager on it?

You haven't answered my question about residence and insurance. Also for all you amature law practitioners what about a car leased or borrowed from a uk company. Is it forbidden to drive that in europe? As for driving whilst intoxicated then that although unadvisable and very anti-social, is your personal choice. All I can say is don't do it too often you may get caught. Yorky

So are you trying to tell me that you cannot have motor insurance in the uk if you live with parents, relatives, friend or in a hotel .I somehow don't think that is the case. AXA have a policy for uk reg cars kept out of the uk with no time restrictions and are ok with a address which is out of the uk ie anywhere in the civilised bit of europe. By the way it is quite expensive to register a 26cv car in France and if you intend to keep it as some people do, for maybe 2 years then it is easier and cheaper to keep it on uk plates. One of the other reasons for buying a car in the uk is the choice have you tried to buy a 1-2 year old petrol Range Rover in france the choice is just not there and the dealer preparation is dreadfull. I might add that whatever road people wish to go down surely that is their personal choice and dosen't have anything to do with you or I.  Yorky 

I don't really know why you all get so uptight about what other people do. I know quite a few French people who run french reg cars in the uk (and they don't cover their lights with sticky tape) but I don't see a lot of people talking about that. Thebrit expats who fiddle the system are a small drop in the ocean to the number of natives doing it. I think it would be better if you occupied your time doing something usefull instead of continually demonising people who may not have the same financial means that all you people have. If you have a problem just build a bridge and get over it Yorky 

Hi It is ok to have a sound moderator for a handgun there is nothing in current legislation prohibiting them. I have to say that I really don't know where all this information is coming from it sounds rather like it maybe old Pierre the pillar of the shooting club has given his interpretation of the law. Yorky  

Hi Did you leave it near the airport. There are a lot of cars parked there now and if I was the owner of the VW garage I would be very very annoyed. I think anyone who leaves a car there is pretty stupid when you can park in the secure airport parking for a reasonable(for airport parking)sum. Anyway I think I will write to the Maire and try to get the clamping  concession. Yorky

Hi If you import goods from the USA into France or the UK you will pay import duty plus vat/tva. If you are a vat/tva registered company you can reclaim the vat as a input and then of course you charge vat on the goods when they are sold. If you export goods from the UK to France or vise versa then unless the recipient is vat registered and produces their vat number then you must charge vat on the sale. There are other factors which could affect you so the best way to go about this is to get all the relvent leaflets from the Revenue and Customs or the french  equivalent. Yorky  

Hi A semi automatic .22 rifle is a cat 4 firearm and you need a "detention des armes" which is obtained from the prefecture. Yorky

We certainly do.

Hi Bugbear. Off course I do aggree with you about firearm security it really should be a lot better in France. The problem with the police ect they tend to interpret the law as they see it and not as it is written. I like the attitude in France to shooting it is a bit like the 70s in the uk and I sincerely hope that it stays that way. I will have a look for the paper on the change in the law it will be lying around somewhere when I find it I will pm you and perhaps I could e-mail it to you. To answer your last question I have been selling guns and bits to go with them since 1990 here in France. Yorky 

Hi Bugbear Sorry you are totally wrong. What is in the FFT handbook is a recommendation and not the law. If you are transporting 5th and 7th cat firearms as long as they are in a gunslip or a case then they do not need either a gun lock or to be dismantled. Trust me on this one if gunlocks were required for 5th cat firearms then I would be laughing all the way to the bank. When they were introduced for 1st and 4th cat weapons We sold 4000+ trigger locks in 3 months. Yorky 

[quote user="Bugbear"] In the case of a .22 rimfire, you got to the gun-shop and make your purchase. They will, usually, assist you in completing the form 'Declaration d'acquisition des Armes de 5 Categorie ll ou de 7 Categorie l' You then take this form to your local police station where they will stamp it and give you the 'yellow' copy. They may visit you to check on your security measures, sometimes they do, smetimes not. You must keep the ammunition and magazine separate to the rifle and when being transported in a vehicle it must be incapable of being used. Dismantled in the case of shotguns and 'trigger-locked in the case of rifles and pistols. It must also not be visible and if you are stopped when on the road (Document checks etc) be sure to tell the police that you have your rifle in the car. This will prevent a potentially dangerous situation developing, I kid you not. Purchasing ammunition for .22 rimfire has no current limit set on how much you can buy although some sellers now insist on production of either your Fed. de Chasse or TIR certificate. Hope this helps but please don't shoot the Coypu, contrary to others views they don't do anymore damage than anything else and are really rather nice to have around. Apart from that the above certificate does not allow you any hunting rights. Vermin control only. [/quote] Hi. There are no security requirements for 5th and 7th cat weapons. You can have as many as you like and keep them where you like, there is no requirement to dismantle them or have a trigger lock( this only applies to 1st and 4th cat firearms). I personally think that it is a bad idea to keep firearms laid around the house but to lock them away. You can no longer buy 5th or 7th cat ammo without producing your FFT or FFBT licences or permis de chasse plus a ID card or passport. Yorky

Colway sell ,or used to sell when I dealt with them, a lot of aircraft remoulds. Yorky 

Why don't you put a sign up saying cars parked outside your garage will be clamped if they persist clamp the car  and then ask them to pay say €100 to get it unclamped. It would be worth filming the result. Yorky

Perhaps it got mixed up and stands for dumb stupid chimp.

That's one of the reasons I ran away from the UK. Yorky