A strange one is this.

And still they keep coming.

https://i.postimg.cc/ZK0vgxjV/Untitled11.jpg

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Has Farage finally got his place in government? :)

I have wondered about this myself in the past, too. There was such a conflict with Washington some years ago, too, the EU was initially not given full status of a nation, and was "outraged".

Formally, the UK'S position (and that of Washington back then) are and were correct, however. The EU is no state and has no formal powers and legitimations like a state. Its diplomatic status should be different, and less elevated. The EU tries to usurp this status, however. Schleichtiere.

I think he is waiting (inside his own mind) to take over from Boris asap :)

I tend to agree, I'd give the option of EU given said status but only if the separate countries in the EU give up theirs and allow the EU to represent their interests.

Good news for the UK and Sunderland in particular.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55757930

Now, someone needs to talk nicely to BMW.....

I think it rather inevitable that matters are starting to deteriorate to this level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFWT-R2ZsvM

^ this is not snub by the EU, but the rules for every sovereign country in the world not being a member of the EU, from having no trade treaties to those of the WTO, to CCTP, and among each other.

I also would not blame the EU for some dutch custom officers who behave impolite. Oh wait .. always blame .. :D

Regarding Nissan they only did so after a deal had been reached between EU and UK. Otherwise the UK would have had to pay.

https://europe.autonews.com/brexit/t...ail-paper-says

Land Rover also produces in England, despite now belonging to indian Tata(?) :hmmm:. The new L Rover 110 400 hp defender engine has been developed in England, at Wolverhampton - a phantastic piece of machinery and good for them. It is nice to drive if a bit heavy, but 86,000 pounds for a car..

meanwhile, in Russia

https://i.imgur.com/Ja1B0h4l.png

Scotland's first minister has insisted she did not mislead parliament about when she learned harassment allegations had been made against her predecessor Alex Salmond.

Nicola Sturgeon said "false conspiracy theories were being spun" about her involvement by Mr Salmond's supporters.

A Holyrood inquiry into how the government handled the allegations against Mr Salmond is under way.

She said she expects to give evidence to the inquiry in the coming weeks.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...itics-55786673

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMKGs-A9flU

Brexit: 'I was asked to pay an extra £82 for my £200 coat'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55734277

I wonder how some people sleepwalk throuhg their lives. I have just placed an order for an Ubiquinol supplement from the UK, and checked the German website of the customs office, now expecting to be asked for an additonal roughly one quarter of the buying price for customs and VAT. Not before calculating that into the total costs I placed the order, its still cheaper than any offer available from the Netherlands, US and UK (German companies seem to not produce what I want).

I will see , its a test run. But when I am aware that things have changed, why are so many others not? Hasn't Brexit been in the news for long time enough...?

I wanted to order some spoke nipples for a swiss bike in a swiss shop.
Price ~ 12 cent per piece, wanted 50.
Overall cost 67,50 Euros, including customs.
The boss even called me and advised me to order those within the EU, since the customs formalities were so complicated and expensive.. he literally said "that is why the EU was founded, we will move the shop to the EU, swiss law is ridiculous".
If you just buy it in Switzerland yourself and export it there's only VAT :hmmm:

Back in the day my brother-in-law had a mate I would meet every summer on the annual jolly boys outing to the Headingley test and he was always adamant he would never buy anything that had been made in Japan. He told me the reason was he had an uncle who was tortured to death by the Japanese in Burma.

Whilst I understood his reasoning I still thought it a little strange.

I'm now finding myself in the same frame of mind regarding products coming out of China.