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No, it will be chief buffoon Boris Johnson first. .

Further to my above post on this link, the Swiss found the greatest difficulty in trade agreement negotiation with the EU was in financial services, important to them. The EU commission refused to discuss this area at all and nothing has been resolved. Given how vital financial services are to...

After at least 10 years of negotiation to leave the EU with a trade agreement, effectively none of any importance. Why 10 years? Well, Switzerland who weren't even members needed 7 years just to get a limited trade agreement. That agreement contains 120 individual agreements, some with...

And bucketing down here in SE Britain today. :( Of course! First day of calendar summer tomorrow. .

And the few we do produce go into the computer games creation industry, where the opportunities and money are in the UK. .

I would like to think that this is the reason the DfT have indicated they cannot introduce the EAPC type approval class before 2018. Negotiation time. Probably just wishful thinking though. .

That's good, I'm glad that's the case. It wasn't the tax matter that I was concerned with, it was the technical aspect. It always used to be that a major change was subject to Vehicle Inspectorate inspection and approval, since the original type approved specification was no longer in place...

Seems like they are ignoring their own rules if they don't follow that up. It will be interesting to see if they still demand VED at the annual renewal date. As an electric none should be payable. .

Of course, almost all the population are better informed, even children. That lady didn't even know there was an EU referendum. .

Matthew Elliott understands that widespread modern human weakness, knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing. .

My understanding is that type approval is legally required on all motor vehicles used within the EU, unless specifically exempted by the appropriate type approval regulation. In this case it's 168/2013, and that details in item 1 on page 1 that type approval is a Free Market requirement, an...

There's the Japanese Sunstar kit, now in SO3 evolution, but they are rather low powered and expensive. The quality is very high though. They've often disappeared from the market and seem currently to be represented by Sunstaribike.com , a Swiss company: Link 1, Review Link 2...

A masterful post Tom, packed with many excellent points. .

Thanks Flud, I suspected as much so didn't bother to try it. I wasn't in any way a fan of the old one either, but as you say, Clarkson was capable. Chris Evans I can't stand, and I doubt Matt Le Blanc is the right person for this program. .

Flud, you've concentrated on the failing countries and disregarded the successful ones. Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Austria are all successful under EU rules, exporting and fiscally buoyant. The new entrants from the Eastern bloc all have growing economies, some rapidly. Now...

I agree, and that urgently needs correcting since it continuously adds to our excessive national debt. But I cannot see how abandoning ship will help. Spending the next ten years in frustrating negotiations with the infuriating EU to leave, ending up either being effectively still in or out...

I was aware of that and India wasn't the only area I left out, but I was only including those with enough potential for our purpose. I cannot see India as remotely having the potential to replace our trade with the EU, given our cost base. India's large buying potential is with countries that...

Yes we can predict what will happen if we leave, for two reasons: The first is the proven Swiss example of what trying to restrict free movement results in. The second is our UK proven one "Been there, done that, failed". I mean of course what happened to David Cameron when he tried it. He...

Article2 (2h) That does look like a possibility. The only concern I have is this wording: new scientific evidence relating to the protection of the environment or the working environment The rights of the disabled or those of limited ability aren't directly related to either the...

As far as I know it always had the nylon intermediate gear wheel. Originally created by the Daum company before Kalkhoff got the rights, it had software programming that tempered the power peaks. Basically on setting off or first applying any higher power stage, the full power only lasted a...