How do we resolve the Brexit mess?

bluethrunthru said:
what the actual fuck????? I have driven about a million miles in my lifetime and this is nuts - the biggest thing I drove was a Transit the norm was a family hatch

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Wasn't this essentially announced during lockdown - there was a huge backlog of tests and minimal testing staff, so they floated the idea of just dropping the tests.
(I haven't read the article due to firewall).
 
bluethrunthru said:
what the actual fuck????? I have driven about a million miles in my lifetime and this is nuts - the biggest thing I drove was a Transit the norm was a family hatch

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As far as I can tell many of the potential 'benefits' appear to involve changing legislation so that we can increase the opportunities to maim and kill ourselves. Looking forward to little ones being allowed to clean the innards of heavy machinery whilst it's still in operation, just like the good old days.
 
MillionMilesAway said:
Wasn't this essentially announced during lockdown - there was a huge backlog of tests and minimal testing staff, so they floated the idea of just dropping the tests.
(I haven't read the article due to firewall).
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More or less............will never fly though - more Tory headlines rather than action
 
bluethrunthru said:
what the actual fuck????? I have driven about a million miles in my lifetime and this is nuts - the biggest thing I drove was a Transit the norm was a family hatch

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Its a winner just imagine it all those people who enjoyed the film convoy back in the day can now live out their dreams driving HGV's for a living. The best bit is they they can get to also do Watership down when the driver wipe some families out driving down the coast for a holiday. It will be a hoot just can't wait for this.
 
Mike D said:
Its a winner just imagine it all those people who enjoyed the film convoy back in the day can now live out their dreams driving HGV's for a living. The best bit is they they can get to also do Watership down when the driver wipe some families out driving down the coast for a holiday. It will be a hoot just can't wait for this.
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threespires said:
As far as I can tell many of the potential 'benefits' appear to involve changing legislation so that we can increase the opportunities to maim and kill ourselves. Looking forward to little ones being allowed to clean the innards of heavy machinery whilst it's still in operation, just like the good old days.
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I’m off to phone Easyjet to see if they’ll let me fly an A320 for a bit.
 
Phil1 said:
The market is very buoyant where I am. Some absolute bargains. Being snapped up mostly by the Scandinavians/German and French with a not unexpected rise in Russians. Still a fair few Brits taking the plunge but mainly those with a decent income who are happy to have a second home here rather than live here full time.
The ones affected in the main are those whose fairly small pensions would have still been enough to rent a nice 2/3 bed and leave enough over to live a quality life.
I knew a few whose combined pensions for a couple came in at around £1500 a month yet could enjoy a life that would be impossible with the same income in the U.K.
Like everything in life, it’s those at the lower scale who end up shafted the most.
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So why didn’t they take up residency before last December?
 
denislawsbackheel said:
So why didn’t they take up residency before last December?
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I can’t speak for every one of them but know several who didn’t reach the requirements needed to be successful in applying for their T.I.E cards.
I know you spend a lot of time in France so not sure if it was less stringent there when getting residency but here, or certainly the area I’m in, didn’t make it easy.
Most failed due to their financial situation.
 
Phil1 said:
I can’t speak for every one of them but know several who didn’t reach the requirements needed to be successful in applying for their T.I.E cards.
I know you spend a lot of time in France so not sure if it was less stringent there when getting residency but here, or certainly the area I’m in, didn’t make it easy.
Most failed due to their financial situation.
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wasn’t it the same as France?
Living there before Dec 2021 and able to prove you were self sufficient in funds.
 
denislawsbackheel said:
wasn’t it the same as France?
Living there before Dec 2021 and able to prove you were self sufficient in funds.
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I’m not sure, that’s why I asked you.
Many weren’t self sufficient, well they were but not self efficient enough for what the Spanish deemed necessary.
You wasn’t getting a TIE here if you were renting an apartment and only had a smallish pension with less than a certain amount in your bank.
 
It’s not simply the fact that they wilfully misled the people but the fact that they so horribly misread the international situation, and continue to do so. The narrative persists that everything will be okay once the international situation returns to the balance of 2015. It won’t and it never will: Russia is set for the long game in Ukraine, China is not posturing and can turn the screw, and India will have its pound of flesh.

If anything, the international situation is going to develop in ways that make Brexit successes even more unlikely.
 
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