Thought I'd start a new thread as this is going to be a major talking point this year...have not made up my mind yet...(unlike bucksfizz)....but thinking of voting for an exit as Europe is not doing Britain any good at all it seems....

it was difficult enough to get unanimity when there were only 13 member-states, but with 28 and growing it will be totally impossible ....... and that will not be lost on germany and arguably france

meanwhile, the french are getting stuck into one of their regular "restless" modes as their gov't attempts to modify their labour laws, so i'm sure the customary transport-related strikes will follow for the summer holidays

Fred thinks we are going to have to start paying for commercial transport to use the tunnel and European roads ,which we have obviously been doing for years ,jeez talk about uninformed .

Dumbo.

Double the charges and cost of "licences" etc. Differential tolls etc.. Preferring to trade within the EU than importing from EU.

45% of UK exports to the EU, less than 10% of exports from EU to UK.

If we are not in the EU we will be able to source outside new markets . pain aren't i Freda .

Fred you know nothing about international road transport so shut up .

there's an awful lot of intermodal stuff too (containers) which gets moved across the channel on ships ..... so how does fred reckon that would be treated?

cynic ,i only know about road transport ,it was my business for years and i can't have Fred talking nonsense about charges etc .

jimmy you can do this you will love this piece in the Telegraph a Michael Petley founder of the city investment managers ECU group . The EU merry go round is broken time to get out .

i confess i skip straight past at least 95% of his stuff

I am told one of the first signs of senility is repeating oneself.

Fred------------45% of (what figure) UK exports to the EU, less than 10% of (what figure) exports from EU to UK.
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I want a vote to get rid of you 'Winging" outers.

In that case Stan we will treat you as per the EU--------- 27 against 1 for---sorry you can't have a vote.
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as this is primarily a shares board .......
what sectors will benefit most if the vote is to stay in, which it (almost) certainly will be?

Dumbo,

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Are you an international lorry driver?

No Fred i owned a transport company and yes i have driven , but up until mid 2000's i knew every rule and regulation so no point you spouting off about tunnel costs road charges etc .

really tough biz that jimmy, especially in uk
main probs as i see it are the heavy cost of diesel and the expense of getting across the channel
domestically, the place is over-run with diddy companies cutting the legs off rates

I sold up after many years and yes it was always tough and not a level playing field with road tax and derv so cheap abroad ,plus road tolls which the Europeans didn't have to pay when they used our roads .However we had 1200 litre fuel tanks and mainly filled up in Luxembourg .I did ok in the end.

Well there's a surprise JB used to be a lorry driver.. who would have thought that listening to him "rant off" on a daily basis.

and eddie stobart?
anything derogatory to say about him stan?