Whitey Grandad

True, which is why I can't see us getting anything. I smell a stalemate coming up. No settlement, no Article 50, repeat add infinitum. A letter in the Times this morning pointed out that John Chilcot would be free soon and we should put him in charge of negotiations. That would hold things up for at least ten years.

Free is not the same as cheap so it depends on how much he wants to earn and how it fits into our pay structure. Any new manager will have his favourites and will want to bring some to his new club so the upper management usually allow him some freeway just to show that they are backing him. Didn't he walk out on Hull?

Fair enough. I only hope you're right.

Why do you still care? (and thanks too to our Dutch friend)

That went when CMD resigned. It's one thing delivering a budget to the people but you have to get it through Parliament too. The country needs a plan. We know that we have chosen to leave but we don't know which door to take and which road to follow afterwards (avoiding falling coconuts on the way). Some paths will turn out to be blocked..

There is another way: The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 provides for general elections to be held on the first Thursday in May every five years.' However, there are two provisions that trigger an election other than at five year intervals: a motion of no confidence is passed in Her Majesty's Government by a simple majority and 14 days elapses without the House passing a confidence motion in any new Government formed a motion for a general election is agreed by two thirds of the total number of seats in the Commons including vacant seats (currently 434 out of 650)' http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/elections-and-voting/general/

Automation? I can recommend 'Player Piano' by Kurt Vonnegut written in 1952. Remarkably prescient it describes how society is fragmented between a small number of technocrats and the lower classes who have been replaced by machines. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel) But I digress.

In a sense you could say that it was true. The economy had been recovering nicely but Labour's failure to engage effectively in the Remain campaign must have made a difference. Not the only factor though. Boris, the Daily Mail (other tabloids are available), Farage, misunderstanding and a lack of knowledge amongst the wider public...

Wouldn't that be 'orthography'? I suppose only the scholarly would know that

I saw that on the news earlier. He certainly doesn't come across as a man with authority and presence.

Ah - that might have been my doing.

I feel that way too.

The Punch and Judy show was quite good and the mushy peas in the chippy not bad. Mind you that was nearly 40 years ago.

Is he related to Nando? Sorry, just being silly. Is he any good?

I didn't see the links on my browser, make of that what you will. I read it. I don't know what a PhD has to do with anything. 12,000? As I thought. So, if you're selling to Germany what's the problem?

The gross never gets sent, only the net. Still a large amount of money but the only question is whether the cost of membership is worth it for the benefits.

They would, wouldn't they. They can't be seen to be interfering at this stage of the process. Everything in Europe happens away from the public eye and there will he all sorts of 'meetings' taking place in broom cupboards.

Don't be so childish. You provided a link and I clicked on it and got a blank page. Take it up with Google Chrome because it's nothing to do with the way I click on it. You could also try posting the complete text for the link and not try to disguise it behind a 'here'. Then if there are any problems the reader would have a chance finding the target through another route. That document has a lot of words but doesn't actually say very much and is clearly written from a pre-determined viewpoint. They are trying to tell the US Government what their foreign policy should be for a start. p.s. I have designed more infrared remote controls than you've had customers in Germany.

I heard on the radio that there are no more than a handful of people who could do it. Miriam reckons there might be 25 and that we need at least 500: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/miriam-gonz%C3%A1lez-dur%C3%A1ntez-brexit-trade-negotiators_uk_57713ad3e4b0d257114a18b2

Links? I read the one from the lawyers. Dealing with any other country involves an appreciation of the local predilections. Do you think it would be any easier to deal with someone in Argentina, say? Or Malaysia, or any one of hundreds of others. I have never had any problems in France but there again you have to know how to work the system. I suspect that you may have fallen foul of the UK's gleeful tendency to goldplate any regulations that originate in Brussels. Please explain why you think life would be easier for your exporting if (when) Britain is outside the EU? Wouldn't you still have to meet the environmental and product specifications?

I'm not sure what you're referring to here.

I've had a look at it and it only re-inforces my views. Then I looked at the 'about us' page and everything became clear. I think our posts overlapped. As I said, I have been designing manufacturing and selling products all over the world for nearly 40 years amounting to several millions of £. We've sold in North America, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East amongst others but the bulk of our products to the EU went to Denmark and France. I have plenty of clues and I know all about selling worldwide. (Specialist electronic products and software)

We shall still need them in Brussels in order to keep up to date with everything that's happening. There are no savings to be made there. Until now we have had the EU to do everything for us.

Dishwashers, windcreen washers, patio washers...?

I have been exporting several million £ to the EU for over 30 years and I don't have any problems. Who have you upset?