Frederick
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[quote user="andyh4"]UK selling less and less to the EU. Well that is good news then only 49.6% of our exports at risk from tariffs. That makes me feel very comfortable - not.[/quote]It appears that somehow exports that are sent out from the UK to EU ports to be stuck on a ship there in order to be forwarded out of the EU to none EU countries end up on the EU statistics as exported to the EU ...... A bit daft when its just passing through so that makes the 49% not accurate .
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[quote user="NickP"][quote user="Quillan"]Businesses wouldn't be able to claim the VAT back from other EU countries. UK companies importing from the EU would have to pay VAT in which ever EU country they buy the goods and of course VAT would also be charged at PoS in the UK. There would be an import tariff on many UK goods entering the EU making them more expensive there.[/quote] Makes me laugh you all talk as though the UK only exports to the EU and doesn't import any thing at all from the EU. Plus I always thought that VAT was already charged at point of sale in the UK, if not I've been ripped off rotten for years? Any way if we don't get a better deal then the residents of the UK will vote in or out, it will be our decision. [/quote]According to this the UK trades less and less with the EU now and is set do better elsewhere http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100171677/no-prime-minister-the-eu-is-becoming-less-economically-important-by-the-hour/
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We are in for keeps IMO.... The EU can not allow a big player like the UK to walk away.. I think changes will take place to ensure we are happy to stay and keep paying in . France takes the biggest share out and I think would worry if it was not being put in to take so will not stand in the way of the changes the UK will be asking for . The free movement rule will have to be changed as no country can accept a population growth the size of Bristol every five years and I think that will be the main one up for discussion .
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[quote user="You can call me Betty"]Mind you, back in the day, British Rail were just the same. I've just been reading Alexei Sayle's "Stalin ate my homework" and as a child he travelled just about all over Europe with his parents for next to nothing on the back of his dad's job with BR.[/quote]If you worked for or are retired from working for an Airline the same applies ...... The fare used to be 10% for staff subject to load and a free round the world if you wanted it every five years ... Things may have changed now .... Do Air France employees along with SNCF also dodge these taxes ?
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I should imagine this is going to work its way down to campsites as well .Its 20 cents per person over 13 years old per night I believe at the moment if you pitch a tent . Those who may be counting their pennies and choose camping for a holiday in France probably do not even consider the tourist tax when they make a booking for a tent or caravan on a site at the moment ....They will get a surprise when an unexpected hole is knocked in their holiday spending money if they put a big increase on it ... The Vendee relies on many thousands taking camping holidays each year . Also many sites have gone over to Mobile Homes in the Vendee in the past five years 6 to 8 berth many of them and they need them to be fully booked as the season is a short one .This tax increase is going to upset many .
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Thursday 10th July is the day the UK looks like getting some problems from strikes . There is a plan to try and bring many different union's members out in a combined mass walk out day of protest ... . Worth keeping an eye on the news reports to see who steps up alongside the teachers and others likely to join this strike if this date could be important to you .
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This from the Guardian on Trident : According to one member of the Scottish parliament 11000 jobs are dependent on the base. The SNP position is without it there will be more money to spend of nurses and firemen etc to create jobs . ...........
Senior Nato officials have warned Alex Salmond's government that an independent Scotland would be barred from joining Nato if there were any disputes over the basing of nuclear weapons on the Clyde.
The Guardian can reveal that a small group of Scottish civil servants travelled to Nato HQ in Brussels last month to discuss Scotland's options for joining the alliance if Salmond wins next year's independence referendum. They argued that an independent Scotland should be given special treatment because it was already a significant part of an existing, founder member of Nato, the UK.
It is understood that Nato officials said it might be possible to allow Scotland to start fast-track talks – but in a blow to Salmond's anti-nuclear strategy, the Scottish delegation was also told that no new member would be allowed to join Nato if that state had unresolved military or territorial disputes with other countries.
Under article 10 of the Nato treaty, one assistant general secretary of Nato said at the meeting on 6 July, new applicants also have to show a history of stable defence policies and structures as a minimum entry requirement. Article 10 also implies that every Nato member accepts the alliance's nuclear first-strike policy.Official sources in Edinburgh and London confirm that these issues were seen as coded warnings that the Scottish government's determination to close down the Trident nuclear submarine base at Faslane on the Clyde would be a major obstacle to Scotland's application.
Lord Robertson, a former secretary general of Nato and a defence secretary in Tony Blair's government, said Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria were expected to resolve disputes over Transylvania and crossings over the Danube before starting their Nato membership process.
"You're not expected to import problems with your neighbours into Nato and that's a very clear warning signal," Robertson said. He said Faslane's continued operations were integral to Nato's strategic concept.
He said Salmond knew there was an unbridgeable contradiction between Salmond's desire to join Nato and his pledge to remove nuclear weapons from Scotland. "He's taking the Scottish people for fools by claiming that [the SNP] would want Scotland to be in Nato but laying down conditions that would make it impossible. It's a confidence trick both on their membership and the Scottish people."
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It appears after a Yes vote if its won the submarine base will have to go as its part of their plan so there is a huge upset ahead for NATO . The USA is likely to punish an Independent Scotland for going none nuclear according past Prime Minister John Major as the base is very important to them as well as the Royal Navy . What would an independent Scotland gain from making an enemy of the USA from day one ? Also it seems families are now falling out with each other over which way to vote and the nearer the election day comes I think the worse it will get . IMO the day of the vote will be a sad one .... for everybody and a lot of people will end up very unhappy whatever the vote and wondering if the whole thing was worth it .
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Can anybody tell me how common it is for French hospitals who have slipped up, and made matters worse for patients , to be brought to account for their mistakes and be made pay large amounts in compensation. ? Or are they not taken to task and people not removed from post when not up to the job ?
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It appears about 800 staff were removed from doing passports never to be replaced ... I remember too well when I worked , our "vacancy " list was never filled .In the end we all had to get by as best as we could with what staff we had . Nothing changes ...now they cant cope with demand because nobody found the staff to do what they knew was coming . When it comes to a renewal whats the matter with doing it at a main Post Office that has been given the the right equipment to process it ? , . Face to face and they end up heat sealing a new page in the passport there and then . Job done !
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I have never had a problem getting enough tablets from my Doctor before I leave the UK ... A note attached to my prescription has always worked when handed in at the surgery to get me what I want .. There are however on line chemists UK ones you can phone and talk to and post a prescription to who will then send your medication out to you Knowing this ..Has always been something to fall back on if for instance I was forced to extend my planned stay. .My tablets are generic ones so availability is not something I worry about. If I had to I know while in France I could go on line and get some sent out from the UK .
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[quote user="dwmcn"]
Frederick,
We stayed on a campsite with Eurocamp on Ile de Re.
David
[/quote] There you go then ! Plenty of facilities for the Calaisimmigrants....But something makes me think that as far as this island is concerned hell would freeze over first ! -
Ile de Re plenty of room for camps there ...But only if they are rich enough to pay the bridge toll to get onto the Island
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Now that the Med is flattening out and open boats can use the summer weather to cross it...... Calais this year looks like its going to see more than ever arrive . Italy will push them into France thats for sure . http://europeansting.com/2014/05/07/hundred-of-thousands-migrants-ready-to-cross-the-mediterranean-only-a-local-matter/
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Now Brussels has announced that UK Council Tax should be raised to tackle the rise in UK house prices... When can a reduction in property linked taxes be expected in France and elsewhere for people who have seen their house prices drop ? What planet do these people think they live on ?....If they want to see people who could not make up their minds about in or out of the EU for the UK turn against them . They are going the right way about it IMO .Quote :
Reforms to the taxation of land and property should be considered to alleviate distortions in the housing market.
"At the moment, increasing property values are not translated into higher property taxes as the property value roll has not been updated since 1991 and taxes on higher value property are lower than on lower value property in relative terms due to the regressivity of the current rates and bands within the council tax system."
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The EU will just have to wait a little while longer for all its problems to be solved ... The cosy chat between Angie and Tony recently about taking on the likes of the FN and UKIP and others to stop them getting stronger and unravelling the workings of Brussels . Will have to be mulled over by all those at the top to get their agreement that a chair is needed for powerful President who is well known on the world stage.... Then step forward President Blair who will not be in it for the money as he has enough already and ....We will all be saved !
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[quote user="Mrs Trellis"]I accept it's a problem and the UK can't cope with huge numbers of immigrants but think of it from their point of view. Many of them are fleeing horrendous conditions and it can't be an easy decision to leave one's family and country. Some of those on the TV item were from Syria where the people have suffered horrendously under the current regime. You try 'fighting corruption' there and you won't live long.[/quote]There are well over three quarter of a million people who are in the area of Lybia planning to get into europe . Gadafi when he was in charge took cash from the EU in payment for keeping them from taking to the water in order to get to Europe . So he was in fact before we called him the "bad" guy and assisted in his downfall doing what the EU wanted in order to help control immigration . As horrible the war in Syria may be my feeling is there are many very wealthy countries in the Middle east who could take care of refugees without putting much of a dent in their oil rich wealth . Why do they choose not to get involved ? Is it because the festering tribal conflicts that were once kept down by dictators ....They are happy to see get sorted out once and for all by letting them fight to the death ? As for fighting corruption there is plenty of that everywhere but its their fight IMO , and, their fight belongs in the Middle East .Perhaps when the tribes and religious groupings have decided who will come out on top and under which ever leader they choose to follow .Things will quieten down and they wont want to leave their home country . Lets hope so as the UK and others cant afford to house the populations that want to flee conflict thats for sure .As much as we might feel sorry for them !
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The environmental consequences as seen by Sir Andrew Green of Migration Watch a few years ago ! http://news.migrationwatch.org.uk/2010/12/migration-the-environmental-consequences-for-the-uk.html
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Please don't just think about it or talk about it do it ....pick up phone .write email whatever... Good friends of ours over 20 years who lived nearby moved only about 14 miles away from us a couple of years ago . They wanted to be near their daughter to help her look after her children and we stopped seeing each other .....then stopped calling .I attended my friends wife's funeral earlier this month . Many times during the past couple of years we wondered how they were getting on. Now we wish we had taken the trouble to keep in contact .
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An interesting read on a never ending problem it would appear ! http://www.migrantvoice.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=498:from-europe-to-the-uk-migrants-in-calais&catid=46:migration-matters
Haile: "I tell people how it is but nobody believes it. You think that everybody gives you money. I have a friend in Greece, I can’t tell him to stay in Greece. When in France, agents, people tell you how good is here."
Girma: "When in Calais, all the information is about the UK. Even if you don’t want to go to England, everybody changes your mind. In Calais, you just keep trying […]. No one tells you that you can stay in France, everybody tells you to go to the UK. Everybody encourages you to leave.”
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Regardless of who won I noticed the postal system of voting in the UK came in for more abuse .. Once more the elderly for whom it was supposed to assist when it came to voting . In certain areas ......had the forms taken from them on their doorsteps by members of their community for posting after they had placed their vote as instructed . I think postal voting should be done away with....unless a way is found to put a fingerprint on it . !
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" Send your signal to your favorite spot on the ranch " .....and ... According to these guys you will get a signal in a force four hurricane if you need one ! http://www.simplewifi.com/outdoorpanel.html?sl=EN
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It would appear that information such as name and address has been collected . Also it was an " inside job " where Ebay staff were involved no doubt our information has been sold on so we will be bombarded with post and email from commercial concerns .
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[quote user="Sunflower"]We often do this for our family/ kids whilst in France. When it is time to print off the boarding cards access the site from your email/reservation to print off the cards and save as a PDF file then email the boarding pass to your family/kids.[/quote]Thanks Sunflower....
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