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Hi everyone, I think, I have to introduce myself here. Let's go ! My name is Victor, I live in Normandy, and I'm 20. I'm fascinated by cars since I've six years old and especially by english cars. I grew up with a classic mini, and some classic roadsters. Since I have my driving licence, I wish owning a "replica" of the old lotus seven and after many research I'm sure that a Westfield would be the perfect choice. However, it's hard to find a Westfield in France and in order to be immatriculate the car have to be 30 years old. Fortunately, your community seems to be very active and I will be very happy to join WSCC and maybee you will be able to help me to find my dream car.

Binky is now up.

The EU has some good points to it but many bad ones and over the years countries who are nett contributors have been paying more and more in to the pot to prop up the countries who economies are basket cases. As Stuart has said the corruption is almost beyond belief and when you cannot get audits signed off by anyone it shows the level of problems. All the EU had to do was to make some concessions to Cameron to fend of the rise in UKIP and there would never have been a vote offered, but as it was they felt that the UK people would never vote to leave. Once the vote was announced, my brother who has lived in France for over 20 years, told me that politicians there were rolling around with joy. If the UK voted to leave they must be punished as other countries must not see that leaving is easy. If they vote to stay all previous concessions won would be swept away as they could treat us with contempt in the knowledge that we will never leave. Both sides lied, project fear being one and the land of milk and honey full of money from the other side and to be honest somewhere in the middle is the truth. So here we are and the issue for me is we either support democracy or ignore it, the people voted on a single issue and the leavers won. The EU has deliberately made it a difficult negotiation and are using the potential return to bloodshed in Ireland as their ace up their sleeve. No one wants a return to that but no PM would allow a part of the UK to be treated differently. May is in an impossible position and this has been driven by divisive people on both sides in this country and those in the EU. I am sure a deal will be done but will it be what people voted for or a fudge? What has happened is that no one in the EU wants the UK to leave as we are a nett contributor, business knows they export more to the UK than we export and we will get access via World Trade terms but even that is being made difficult by some. Will it be done by next year who knows, will we get a second vote I doubt that otherwise you go against the democracy and trust will be even further eroded in the state of politics. I hope both sides come out with some pride and we continue to work with and live by our EU neighbours who in the main are like us, good people led by self centred people who want power more than anything.

I’m in the same place really, complete and test every system, knowing full well it all has to come apart later for paint. Painful at times, but it is the best way to go about it.

2nd November 2018 https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7639377/david-cameron-return-politics-foreign-secretary-bored/ CAM AGAIN. David Cameron tells friends he is planning a return to frontline politics as next Foreign Secretary because he’s ‘bored s***less’. No Brexit worries if Dave returns?!

I would have thought the whole car will have to be stripped back to the bare shell so it can be painted. If you leave the plugs off you would never know if everything works. At least the way they are doing it proves everything in stages rather than in one big lump at the end.

That alternator solution is absolutely superb! And loving that aerospace part (hmmm how can I find an excuse to use one...)

Are my FIX for the month, these boys are fantastic

Not any more he's not, you've got to have b@11s to be a member here. julie excepted...........

A trading partnership is fine. The EU are trying and have been tying to get POLITICAL union in through the back door of trade. This is not acceptable. Kinnock was mentioned. I'll mention Mandelson and Farage as well. All of them soundly rejected by the UK electorate yet they become EU politicians. This is the very opposite of democracy and if it happens with those we vote out of office I'm sure it happens with politicians from other countries too. In other words the very people we deliberately reject end up being in a position of power and largely exempt from the will of the people. The British government handled this all wrong. The UK is the 5th biggest economy in the world https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/04/the-worlds-biggest-economies-in-2018/ We trade with more countries under WTO rules than we do with the EU. We should have said "We're out. If you want us to trade with you, come up with a deal or we'll spend our money elsewhere." And at the end of the day is Germany really going to say that they don't want to sell us BMW's, Mercedes, Audi's, Daimler, Bosch, Siemens etc etc. Hardly. We need to hold out nerve, stare down project fear, keep calm and carry on. The core of the EU are much more concerned about contagion. If they make it easy for us to leave then they will be faced with several other countries wanting to do the same. The harder they make it for us the more unattractive leaving looks to other countries who may be on the cusp, and that is political cynicism of gargantuan proportions. I'm old and I spend a LOT of my working time in Holland, France and Germany and I'm a confirmed leaver. No deal is fine by me. WTO rules will work the way they always have.

Before the vote I had no idea how dividing this has turned out to be be. I enjoyed the discussion before. No I mostly keep my in/out views to myself. There has been some total and complete miss information fed to the public via Parliament, media and Social regarding both arguments and some of this issues. People have taken on and believed all sorts. What is evident is that I would not trust any of any party to run a bath let alone a successful negotiation. It appears the only actual preparation for Brexit has been to tweak the m20 to make it a better car park. I’m very dis-elusioned about it all.

Surely the older a voter is (provided they're still compos mentis) the more experience they have of life, Politics and the EU.