coldel

Well this week will be the telling week - EU have said no way they will renegotiate, its this or nothing and that all negotiations are done. Really it depends on what happens when its rejected in parliament, if May goes, if the no confidence vote appears, if Labour win a GE. Ultimately it is not in the EUs interest to suddenly give a load of concessions because our MPs reject the deal, otherwise as above it will embolden the more far right politics of certain EU countries. What is a shame is that the ground that the EU claim they have given up to the UK to allow us to find the deal has not been clearly cited. It would demonstrate to people how we have arrived where we have. Negotiation is not about getting your ideal scenario (so the views of Boris et al), both sides if stuck by that principle would never agree. We have probably given more ground than the EU, but of course thats the nature of negotiating with a hugely powerful bloc - I would have liked to have seen what they gave up to get to where we are - the only analysis I can find is this one https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-concessions-factbox/factbox-where-the-eu-has-made-concessions-in-brexit-talks-idUSKCN1NL1WA To be honest, if it wasn't for the backstop, would the exit deal be such a bad one? What parts of it are people generally annoyed at that its so terrible?

Sorry chaps but most likely doing a summer break with the family if its on the 25th bank holiday as thats kids half term also. Any other weekend would have been fine.

Aint gonna happen, those German cows pretty much work for free

Ahh, I just cannot do reality tv, makes my head hurt!

Like I said up top mate, I think if it becomes no deal we will see companies frantically trying to figure it out (supermarkets have just spent a fortune buying up 6 months of storage over the last few days, expect your pint of milk in Tesco to increase in price shortly ) and we will see some change in the ways things work, it might cost more, which will be passed on to us. If the government continue to self destruct and end at no deal then they have to be in some way accountable for helping directly affected business get through next March be it in tax breaks or the like.

Could Immingham say increase by 1000% overnight? If so, I would imagine its making huge losses right now in used capacity. What about food produce, that comes from thousands of different sites all over Europe, how do you get it onto planes? I presume they are not lying idle around just waiting to go. Around 10,000 lorries pass through dover each day, are there enough planes? Is there enough airspace? Do planes have freezer and refrigeration containers? Tesco and other supermarkets do not have the distribution facilities (I work for one of the big four) people might think, more worryingly is that they do not have the storage as most supermarkets operate on a just in time business model. I would imagine if it were indeed cheaper, better, to fly stuff or use other ports then companies would do that, so you have to ask the question, why aren't they? Edit: Just looked at the routes, and Immingham is a much greater distance on water 15 hours vs 1.5 for Dover. I would imagine the costs as outlined above in terms of time on vehicle, driver, increasing return journey time by the vehicle by around 2 days all would have significant financial impact on a business operating model. When you consider most supermarkets run at between 2%-4% gross margin any costs have to be minimised, suppliers arent going to suck up any extra cost and supermarkets will pass it on.

I read articles on this today, I think most do say something like 'Dover and other ports...' open up and read the BBC article for example. Dover is a good example though and cited by news articles as when there have been problems there in the last few years with the port we have actually seen lorries parking on motorways going back miles. In terms of other ports, I would imagine you could use them but the time taken to get lorries through would still be the same as Dover and the same problems arise in terms of queuing. Then you have to consider are there enough ferries running, infrastructure at the ports etc. if you re-route traffic that way - Dover takes around 60% of all ferry traffic, how would a port that takes around 5-10% deal with 15-20% extra coming their way? I think it would depend on the industries and companies in each case - I am sure they use the Dover route because its the best route for their business, their own costs and business model will be impacted if they change this - take fresh produce for example, what happens if the driver has to add 36 hours to their journey to go to a different port, how does the quality of the food get impacted? The extra cost paying drivers, extra fuel, longer time product on vehicle cost, the lost trips that vehicle could make due to increased time on each single trip etc. I am pretty sure if we go no deal we will see all sorts of ingenious ways to try and keep things going, I can imagine its all going to cost though, and that cost is only going to end up in one place and thats at the door of the customer.

If ever there was a non-event of the year, that carol singing arrangement was it!

Somewhat bizarrely the only people attempting to make Brexit happen are May and Hammond. Yes the deal has a dreadful flaw in it called the backstop but ultimately to get a deal where we stay borderless for trade without it is that we stick up borders around Ireland which will ignite god knows what, neither the UK or the EU want that. There is still no other realistic proposition on the table, all we have are people chasing their own agendas - Corbyn wants to be PM at any cost even if it means causing potentially huge economic hardship. JRM wants a yes man he can place in as PM of the Tory party to push his own dressed up far right agenda. UKIP are just a joke, living in some sort of fantasy land where they think the UK can dictate completely the terms of a negotiation, to be quite frank the guy must be just simple, thick or a genius - I think its unlikely to be the latter. But yes Ade, its an utter circus and shows how our beloved 'democracy' falls apart when greed gets put to the top of the agenda.

Some wonderful crap today from our beloved politicals. So Barnier comes out and says its this deal or no deal. Despite that, our MPs continue to banter on about renegotiating it wasting more and more time. Not sure if they understand business but generally you need two parties to negotiate...still...who knows. So Labour have said they want a customs union but with the ability to influence EU trade deals they make - what bloody madness is that all about? So we are like yes, we are leaving, we want though to keep good flowing but without contributing anything financially to support that. Its a stretch but doable, but then they think they can still influence EU trade discussions...I really hope I misread that bit from Mr McDonnell. The comedy party meanwhile, I mean UKRAP, obviously taking on board the well informed economic advice of Tommy Robinson, Batten said we should just tell the EU we have left, but we will keep their laws in place, well the ones that we want we will amend or repeal everything else. We will tell them 'how its going to work' in a 'friendly and cooporative' way and watch our economy subsequently boom. How is telling an economic body 'this is how it will work' is an act of cooporation, or did I miss something?

...good shout Colin, also I would consider a written letter as well as an email. Letters are always opened, emails can get 'lost' in the day to day working life of a busy CEO.

Yes most of what I have seen is that most MPs already know which way to vote and are using it as a platform to just state that. I suspect its more to do with the conversations we don't hear, whispers in ears, etc.

All that said above, May has shot herself in the foot as being shown to be effectively bending the truth about the backstop given the now public legal advice. We all knew the backstop was tying us to the EU, she said the EU would be flexible with its implementation so we are relying on good will - legally as the document has pointed out we could be tied until the EU decides otherwise and everyone is hopping mad at this, but this was clear from the day the deal document was published its just being used as a propaganda issue now for those wishing the deal to be struck down, which I suspect it will be.

Yes dont do induction, spacer, exhaust etc and remap expecting to have your neck broken the second you press the throttle. What it does do is eliminate flat spots across the power delivery and give an overall improvement of around 5% across the rev range. The drive will be better, but as mentioned a number of times, you wont suddenly notice any significant power change. And get a good exhaust/cat combo you get a much better sound!

Because greed is taking over my friend, at an unprecedented scale. The Labour party cannot see beyond the end of their nose with only one vision in mind, which is a general election win. Whether having a GE right now with the clock ticking towards March 2019 and rejecting the deal means huge economic uncertainty potentially crippling impact on jobs, GDP, investment etc. means nothing to Labour, they will simply quote back during the even bigger mess whilst in government that it was the Tories that got us there. Exactly the same hand wringing we get from Theresa May whenever the economy is mentioned its alway 'oh well Labour took us to X Y and Z whilst they were in government' - it really is a sad time for young people to be seeing politics unfortunately.

Well its just getting completely daft now. Labour, who have no alternative to the May Deal, continue to ridicule it with no other intention than to get a GE despite the fact they are putting the economy at risk by doing so. Legal advice released which shows by invoking a backstop we could be stuck in customs union purgatory, but to be honest we identified that pages back on this thread. That said still no other party/MP has suggested a sensible way to get around the backstop should it be needed. No deal throws the country into chaos, with for example the car industry saying it changes many decisions about where it manufactures cars. And a government with so little backing in the commons everything they put forward is voted against. Well this is a jolly fine mess we 'gotten ourselves into...

Thought it was the HR they fixed the spacing issue on, rather than the revup? Again not been in the zed world for a few years happy to be shown otherwise.

Lots of guides on here for how to get the most out of your NA engine. Spacer is a nice cheap fix before you map the engine - there are a number of map options out there now as well as uprev (think its ecutek? I havent paid as much attention over the last couple of years!) so look into exactly what you want. Don't worry about the peak gains being relatively small either its area under the power curve that makes all the difference look for smoothing the power delivery and a consistent power increase across all revs, an extra 18bhp at 6000rpm is pretty much irrelevant in day to day driving.

Keep going with it - they obviously know what a huge issue (and ultimately failure in design) this is for all their cars out there and will try dodge responsibility. Just keep going back and with any luck they will give in!

It also usually says in the portal if the upload has been successful, if you logged in it would have shown if it was there or not. Always worth checking these things!

I wish Ricey was still on here, he always came up with the best 'burn it with fire' violent imagery But as we say, each to their own!

That's odd. I have had the same happen to me ie company claimed not to have certain documents from me but they dropped me a letter outlining a deadline etc. So I could follow up. I have always used specialists like Flux/Knott though who were you using?

If it was £2200 as an annual payment and say interest was an extra 15% on top putting it at say £2550 you would be paying circa £210 per month. If you paid £135 for two months that would put you about £150 behind on payments. Add that to £210 and that puts you up around the £360 mark possibly explaining it? It all sounds like its either completely correct or that there has been a mistake in the admin, either way refer to your payments schedule, if its not matching that then ring them up (dont email them).

Sounds like an admin error - you said its £2200 per year paid over 12 months, but you said you paid £135 per month for the first two months then you were paying too little? If it were 12 equal payments it would be closer to £185 per month, maybe someone is manually typing numbers in their end and made a mistake? In any case, refer to your signed contract, it will have the agreed amounts on there that you agreed to pay. It should tally up with that, if not, ring them up, they are more likely to be able to help than here

And the 4m properties in the UK that are flats...they buy potatoes carrots and peas off their better off and better equipped neighbours