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Old May 20, 2020 | 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by BMWhere?
Well, the UK won't be seeing a penny of it, that's for sure! Once again, the notion of solidarity and stronger together which binds the EU is shining through while the UK is now left to roll around in its own excrement!

Guy Verhofstadt wants EU reform to include revenue generation by the EU itself to create its own emergency fund and enable it to react more quickly in a crisis without having to rely on the member states and all the backroom political bargaining that goes hand in hand with such grants and loans. That's the reason for his sticking plaster comment, not that he is against the principle of the new grants.
Solidarity isnt as firm as you like to believe. A growing number of countries don't want joint liability for loans, I mean grants.
It looks very unlikely fiscal responsibility will realised giventhe vast chasm between northern Europe and the southern countries
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Old May 20, 2020 | 01:02 PM
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Divide an Rule the English way , race to the bottom

loads more jobs going , and just brexit to fix it all

lol
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Old May 23, 2020 | 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by andy97
The latest from Macron and Merkyl to create 'Loans', erm I meant to say 'Grants' of 500 Billion euros.

This will be distributed to member states. Then added to the EU budget!

Basically money roundabout

Guy Verhofstadt has slated the idea as another sticking plaster on top of another.

Just a headline grabber for yesterday, flushed down the pan tomorrow by the other members states

lol, leave it - let it go

meanwhile

awesome day windsurfing at Sunny Hunny - powered up on a 4.2

and absolutely will be taking the family to Greece for the summer
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Old May 25, 2020 | 01:10 AM
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Has been windy south coast up channel here , just too lazy get out ...!
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Old May 25, 2020 | 09:45 PM
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Originally Posted by IdonthaveaScooby
Has been windy south coast up channel here , just too lazy get out ...!
the wind waits for no man IDHAS

awesome sail fully powered up and sunny/warm too

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Old May 26, 2020 | 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by hodgy0_2

absolutely will be taking the family to Greece for the summer
You might want to check if Greece will allow you to enter their country, also have enough holiday for the 14 self isolation upon returning to UK.

Nightmare scenario arrive Greece, kicked out and spend 14 days locked up in a camp at Heathrow
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Old May 27, 2020 | 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by andy97
You might want to check if Greece will allow you to enter their country, also have enough holiday for the 14 self isolation upon returning to UK.

Nightmare scenario arrive Greece, kicked out and spend 14 days locked up in a camp at Heathrow
Its easy. There will be no quarantine on arrivals from Ireland, therefore holidaymakers can come back to the UK via Dublin. (Or am I missing something?)
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Old May 27, 2020 | 09:58 AM
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Its easy. There will be no quarantine on arrivals from Ireland, therefore holidaymakers can come back to the UK via Dublin. (Or am I missing something?)
Other than cost, and delay, no. Cheapest flight I spotted £61 per person.
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Old Jun 3, 2020 | 11:01 PM
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Let’s hope Boris secures that free trade deal , for those Sunderland folk !
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Old Jun 5, 2020 | 07:31 PM
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Couple weeks before ruination , but the imporatant thing is Boris saves face !
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Old Jun 17, 2020 | 10:05 PM
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Sod the 47% of our trade right on our door step

We're headed for cheap Tim Tams off the aussies

anyway Barnier will cave at he last minute , give us free trade
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Old Jun 18, 2020 | 08:16 AM
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Originally Posted by IdonthaveaScooby
Sod the 47% of our trade right on our door step

We're headed for cheap Tim Tams off the aussies

anyway Barnier Boris will cave at he last minute , give us them free trade and fishing rights
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Old Jun 18, 2020 | 08:40 AM
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apparently one of the proposed great benefits free / good trade deal with Aus is that itll benefit our automotive industries
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Old Jun 18, 2020 | 09:07 AM
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Which automotive industry is that? Nissan have already said WTO Britain is not the place for them, I imagine others will follow
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Old Jun 18, 2020 | 09:10 AM
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Oz no longer has GM car factories

We can send them our Vauxhalls (that’ll be a mix of rebadged Peugeots and facelifted old Renault vans )


Unless we’re talking about shipping over Jukes....but we already do that anyway
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Old Jun 18, 2020 | 10:56 AM
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Maybe its somehting to do with car parts ?

iv no idea
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Old Jun 18, 2020 | 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by IdonthaveaScooby

iv no idea


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Old Jun 18, 2020 | 11:12 AM
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Ah , here's Andy to give us the lowdown
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Old Jun 18, 2020 | 12:01 PM
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Come on Andy !!
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Old Jun 19, 2020 | 08:32 AM
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Well here it is from gov.uk

Liberalisation of Australian tariffs could benefit the Machinery and Transport equipment industry, which is the cornerstone of many regions’ exports to Australia. The automotive industry is important to the UK and Australia’s bilateral trading relationship; cars are the UK’s second highest goods export to Australia. The following regions could benefit in particular: Northern Ireland, the North East of England, the West Midlands and East of England.

staggering , cos i couldnt detect anthing british when i was i Aus
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Old Jun 19, 2020 | 10:25 AM
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Could this be the uk , as in the uk part of the eu.....
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Old Jun 29, 2020 | 02:16 PM
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-53192842

So much for the Brexit Bonus! This is the one of the most stupid Brexit waste of money so far!

For one, the UK should have made remaining in Galileo an absolute priority. We have already invested millions in developing Galileo and just as its coming online we lose access! Total stupidity!!!!

Buying one-web as a replacement "to rival" Galileo is also ridiculous! One-web is(was) a Low-Earth-Orbit satellite constellation designed to provide internet access to remote locations. It failed because it was simply too expensive and delayed compared to Star-Link, there was simple no viable business model! It was never designed to provide global positioning and lacks the accurate clocks required to provide accurate global positioning.

The One-Web developers have sold this deal to the UK government with the idea that they can easily reconfigure the satellites to provide a GPS service, but "simply" and "satellite development" don't go hand in hand, and given this will need to have encrypted channels for military service (the whole reason why the UK/EU wants its own GPS system in the first place), the cost of re-purposing One-Web as a GPS system will be enormous.

Is this waste of money what the Brexitees voted for when they knew what they were voting for?
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Old Jun 29, 2020 | 02:46 PM
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Originally Posted by BMWhere?
"If GPS were to go down motorists, businesses and the military would be left without a precise navigation signal."

Have they not heard of maps, I used them extensively when I was in the Army and as a motorist.
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Originally Posted by Wurzel
"If GPS were to go down motorists, businesses and the military would be left without a precise navigation signal."

Have they not heard of maps, I used them extensively when I was in the Army and as a motorist.
Try getting a self driving car to read a map
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Originally Posted by BMWhere?
Try getting a self driving car to read a map
who is talking about self driving cars?
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Old Jun 29, 2020 | 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by BMWhere?
Try getting a self driving car to read a map
Originally Posted by Wurzel
who is talking about self driving cars?
I presume he's making a comment about Tesla.

Lockheed are midway through their latest iteration of GPS satellite launch program. Its an American car

2 days, then all that's left is to complete with No deal in September
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Old Jun 29, 2020 | 05:15 PM
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No worries

we got cheaper Tim Tams !

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Old Jun 29, 2020 | 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by BMWhere?
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-53192842

So much for the Brexit Bonus! This is the one of the most stupid Brexit waste of money so far!

For one, the UK should have made remaining in Galileo an absolute priority. We have already invested millions in developing Galileo and just as its coming online we lose access! Total stupidity!!!!

Buying one-web as a replacement "to rival" Galileo is also ridiculous! One-web is(was) a Low-Earth-Orbit satellite constellation designed to provide internet access to remote locations. It failed because it was simply too expensive and delayed compared to Star-Link, there was simple no viable business model! It was never designed to provide global positioning and lacks the accurate clocks required to provide accurate global positioning.

The One-Web developers have sold this deal to the UK government with the idea that they can easily reconfigure the satellites to provide a GPS service, but "simply" and "satellite development" don't go hand in hand, and given this will need to have encrypted channels for military service (the whole reason why the UK/EU wants its own GPS system in the first place), the cost of re-purposing One-Web as a GPS system will be enormous.

Is this waste of money what the Brexitees voted for when they knew what they were voting for?
Apart from costing the taxpayer a rather big pile of wasted cash, OneWeb's satellite's aren't even in the right orbit to provide a navigation type system:
https://www.itpro.co.uk/business/pol...gps-satellites
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Old Jun 30, 2020 | 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by markjmd
Apart from costing the taxpayer a rather big pile of wasted cash, OneWeb's satellite's aren't even in the right orbit to provide a navigation type system:
https://www.itpro.co.uk/business/pol...gps-satellites
Its not impossible in that orbit, but the footprint of the satellites is much smaller, so many more satellites are required to provide coverage. The short distance also means a shorter time difference between satellite signals needed to determine the position (although an advantage to reduce latency on internet service), so much faster and accurate time measurement is needed in the receiving hardware to get an accurate position. The final problem with low orbit is the speed at which the satellites have to travel to stay in orbit is much faster which means you have to very quickly gain a fix from the satellite before it disappears out of view!

There is a reason why all other GPS systems are operated at a much higher altitude - it simply makes more sense! But common sense is not something the current British government is renowned for!

But of course all Brexiteers were fully aware that leaving the EU meant leaving the Galileo program and the UK wasting billions trying to replace it!
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Old Jun 30, 2020 | 10:56 AM
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I doubt most Would even know who Galileo was

all they want is their British cod back , off , well anybody really -maybe the Icelanders
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