Tilly
Well-Known Forumite
Kapp?
Not while there's Bread and Circuses
The youth are too flabby
Too detached
Too attached to their phones
Everyone else has a bad back
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Leave or Remain?
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Kapp?
Not while there's Bread and Circuses
The youth are too flabby
Too detached
Too attached to their phones
Everyone else has a bad back
Thehooperman
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@Fonzie-NL apologies you are correct that manufacturers will be able to use the CE mark and can self certify their products depending on the category of their products and what the respective directive mandates.
My comment was in relation to products that require a Notified Body assessment before they can be sold in the EU.
Those that currently have a UK Notified Body certification may need to be reassessed by an EU registered Notified Body which we can no longer claim post Brexit. Unfortunately this doesn't appear to be a reciprocal arrangement.
Any new products in these categories would need assessment by an EU Notified Body so this may increase their costs and make them less attractive to EU customers.
In terms of standards the directives are legislation and as you stay will take a long time to amend and implement. Many brexiteers think it is simply a case of binning anything from Brussels after October but this isn't that simple and will take years to sort out.
Bring back the kite mark
Carole
Well-Known Forumite
There are quite a few people that I know, in business, in the West Midlands, who voted remain, who, in the 3 years since the vote, have actually changed their minds.
Tilly
Well-Known Forumite
That doesn't surprise me
Carole
Well-Known Forumite
A mix of various political parties.
Some die hard labour and some conservatives.
It’s interesting to see how some people have stayed true to what they voted for and how others have now gone in a different direction.
Tilly
Well-Known Forumite
My only interest now is the screeching and wailing to come from the hoards of the simpleminded when they realise what they have actually 'won'
If there is an irony, it's that the most vociferous leavers will lose the most
Get Ready...
Withnail
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If i were you @Carole , i'd be rethinking.
If i weren't you i wouldn't be. Which i am.
Only people who can see they will be untouched by this want to see it - it's like asking the guy from Timpsons if he needs a new key.
Your social circle is exactly that which will weather the oncoming storm - their opinions are thus almost entirely worthless.
Do you really want to profer them forth as if they are some sort of barometer?
If i weren't you i wouldn't be. Which i am.
Only people who can see they will be untouched by this want to see it - it's like asking the guy from Timpsons if he needs a new key.
Your social circle is exactly that which will weather the oncoming storm - their opinions are thus almost entirely worthless.
Do you really want to profer them forth as if they are some sort of barometer?
Carole
Well-Known Forumite
It’s a bit rude to say that the opinions of people I know are worthless but hey ho, its your prerogative to think that.
Or perhaps you mean that any opinion that differs to your own is worthless? Who knows?
I wasn’t actually offering up a their opinions as a barometer, it was just an observation, nothing more than that.
What is interesting is that you comment on “my social circle” without actually knowing who my friends are and who I mix with.
I was born working class, most of my family are working class. Lots of my friends are working class.
It’s fair to say that I now live a middle class life and yes some of, but certainly not all, of my social circle are middle class.
However, why should the opinions of one social class be more relevant than another?
For what it's worth, I voted remain, and if there was another vote tomorrow, I’d still vote remain.
You said that if you were me, you’d be rethinking.
About what exactly, should I be re thinking?
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tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Very few people I know have changed their mind, most have if anything become more entrenched. Some would happily see the world burn for a blue passport.
Cue
Well-Known Forumite
It's almost as if being part of a huge trading bloc means businesses can benefit from economies of scale and offer more competitive prices.
Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
Pretty sure it’s a Dutch/French company who won the contract but the passports are being printed in Poland.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
I wonder if there'll be duty payable as they're imported?
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
I believe we are going to just zero all tariffs coming in, whilst still having tariffs applied to all our exports? What could possibly go wrong......
Vespa-NL
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What I heard It’s the French company Gemalto. (Their headoffice is in Amsterdam but their Dutch as Camembert is Dutch). The British firm De La Rue (sounds really British...) lost the order. haven’t heard where they print the Passports.
note: I think that this was the first and last time Bill Cash MP was quoted in a respected Dutch Newspaper, De Volkskrant.
‘Totaal onnodig en symbolisch gezien totaal fout’ (totally unnecessary and symbolicly totally wrong)
Although the original article came from the Sun Newsletter...
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