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@maurici Coming over here, hitting our apexes.

Yeah. Ive had that too. I normally answer that i dont steal jobs, i just focus on raping wives and eating children.

Have to get this one in

You have failed to answer my questions Maurici: What percentage of the working class population in the poorer areas of the UK take a race car to Europe, take a pet to Europe, etc. How lives in the working class towns that were key to the Brexit vote were improved by being in. You misrepresent the facts: Sterling averaged roughly 1.25 for the first 6 months of 2016, it was not 1.40 at any point in 2016, and currencies fluctuate all of the time. People that live on their own in the UK and earn minimum wage, a) most will require benefits unless they find very cheap accommodation, b) all would be officially defined as in 'in work poverty' and c) the little tax they do pay would be a long way from covering what the government spends on them, the government is borrowing to fill the gap. "10% of the uk population is from overseas... ok. over 25% of NHS was from overseas" NO! - 10% of the UK population is from the EU, 'overseas' is a different thing. The 6 million EU citizens in the UK is those that have stayed, nobody knows how many more were here, a lot, if the shortage of cheap labour is an indication, but NHS staff that are EU citizens is about 6% and only more than that in London, at 11%. I have at no point denied anything that is happening, if I have please be specific. In any case the waters have been muddied by the pandemic and you cannot attribute higher shipping costs, driver shortages, energy price rises, etc to Brexit (Poland is 60,000 drivers short) Let me summarise my feelings, The Brexit deal is a bad deal for us and for the EU - the worst possible outcome, this is because for the EU Brexit must be seen to fail, and because our negotiating position was weakened by infighting our own country and Parliament. There are many many areas where mutual benefit can come from us being closer to the EU, and that may come in time, but the EU can make many of the issues go away any time it wants to, the UK represents a huge proportion of the EU trade surplus with the rest of the world, and that will erode if difficulties persist. The EU can bend the rules when it wants to, e.g. Switzerland, full access to the single market but 'pretending' to have free movement of people. Globalisation has failed all but the wealthy, the guy in Cambodia that gets $2 to make your £100 training shoe is still poor, as is the shop worker that sold you them, and in the process we killed the planet with container ship emissions. I can't believe we ship carbonated water from south east Asia! We need to make stuff here, stop using forced or cheap labour from abroad, we make it cheaper using automation, creating skilled jobs. I am very much pro immigration, I support us caring for people in need from all over the world, but uncontrolled economic migration is a stupid idea, economic migration should a) meet a need, and b) be met by proportional increased resources in housing, education, healthcare, other infrastructure, otherwise it creates 'ghettos' in our towns - yes they exist! Reasons to leave, I thought there were plenty in my post - The EU is a low wage, low corporation tax economy that leave governments and people indebted and impoverished (even people working full time) It will get worse when such candidates as Macedonia (minimum wage £200 a month) Montenegro, Albania and Serbia, join.

When did he ever hit an apex ?

Lots do. Sorry, did. Generally speaking the folks who didn't have any interactions or interests with Europe are the ones saying brexit was the only option. In the second part of your statement how many of the poorer areas of the uk have seen any benefit post brexit? Rising prices across the board, no benefits increase, no drop in unemployment. Isn't that just making the poorer areas poorer? Am only going off what I've read or seen on the news but I'd say there was a rapid increase in poverty related issues? I personally think that the tragedy of the covid pandemic has masked a lot of the issues surrounding brexit and only now will we really start to see the issues starting to bite as we start to return to 'normal'.

Expanded for historical accuracy.

Really? what percentage of the population has life outside the island? my partner came to this country earning minimum wage and was like this during 2 years. Had money to pay rent, had her own car, paid indeed taxes, and council tax. We´ve never claimed for any benefit. I´ve never had to give her any money to live. This is the sort of lies you were told during brexit... Minimum wage in uk was incredibly good. And while would not be enough to live in central london, would suffice to live anywhere else decently. We even went on holidays every now and then back then... so... sorry. You are WRONG: nope. before the start of the brexit campaing the pound was at 1.40. I know it because it what what I paid every pound when I came to live here at 2015. Crashed at the speed the brexit was getting stronguer. 10% of the uk population is from overseas... ok. over 25% of NHS was from overseas. The loss isn´t proportional to the needs. Do this people only work and live for uk? uk is rather small... they don´t happen to buy EU products in the supermarket for example... haven´t you noticed the rise on prices of fresh product? because my shopping cart is now more expensive than ever. this makes me laught. I can´t really answer this. "2 milion unemployed that would like a job if pay was decent". because serving dishes 37.5 hours a week in a restaurant for 1300 quid a month is slavery... please... unqualified, untrained people have unqualified untrained Jobs and salaries... here and everywhere. The difference here is that people happens to be to snob to do some of the jobs. Most benefits are given to UK nationals. It wasn´t easy at all to claim any benefit as inmigrant, trust me, I´m one and I know. The problem is the nationwide economy needed this people to work. Shutting big companies, reducing revenue due lack of manpower, and ultimately have the workers left working with added pressure and bigger workload is hardly a better situation than before. And yes. What I was expecting. Not a single reason why to leave really, and a post trying to deny what is actually happening. I´m really wondering what kind of understanding of how things work you may have when your are lead to question how big percentage of the population, and companies have dealings with Europe...

Maurici, I voted against Brexit, but the attitude of some of the politicians from mainland Europe since then has me thinking that maybe I was wrong, and that we will be better out of it. The way the French politicians in particular have gone on about the negotiations would suggest that this Country has committed some terrible crime, but you know what? All we as a Country did was to excercise our right to leave in accordance with the Treaties. If they had left things as a common market (and don't forget that is what we joined) then none of this would have happened. Instead, the powers in Brussels have been determined to try and creat some sort of federation of states. And don't get me started on the bureaucratic nonsense and waste of Strasbourgh and Brussels. How many Countries in the EU contribute what they are supposed to (per capita) towards the defence of Europe? How many of them give as much (per capita) in overseas aid to the third world as we do? When wll the commission finally get their accounts audited, after all these years? The fact is that they (particularly the commission are on an uncontrolled gravy train. And much of the problems you complain about particularly relating to the cost of taking your car into Spain are down to the Spanish government, not this Countries government. Oh, and remind me, what is the unemployment rate in Spain? and why is that the fault of this Country?

If you mean by that there are a handful of pro-Brexit members who are much more boisterous than all the other members (pro or anti), I’d agree. I’d find it hard to believe the membership as a whole isn’t much closer to 50/50 split, though. I’ve stopped expressing my anti-Brexit views in here for reasons best kept to myself. Anyway…. Best of luck! And…

Well, I have a "significant" birthday next Monday, so I wanted to treat myself. I've sold my heavily-modified turbo-nutter Fiat Coupe and also got rid of the daily-driver Alfa GT. However, I love the coupe bodystyle, so...

Hi! I'm selling my MGB GT, 1981 RB model. It's a very specific car looking for the right buyer: I started out with a totally original and very solid B about 6 years ago. Over this time it's been my daily driver (about 20miles round trip) for my commute and I have taken it on holidays, even to Le Mans for the 24h. Also, I have pretty much modified every aspect of it. I'll try and list it all here: Stage 2 engine tune by classic car specialist comprising: Carb trumpets and modified needles, ported and gas flowed head, Newman fast road camshaft, Vernier timing gear, sports coil, Magnaflow manifold and sports exhaust, suitable distributor. Finished with full rolling road set up. It definitely goes unlike any other 4- cylinder B. Lowered front and rear suspension, telescopic dampers at the front. Leather seats and interior. Smaller diameter steering wheel (I think 13.5"). Electric fuel pump. Over my years I have maintained the vehicle to a high standard mechanically and I have started restoring the body work. The plan was to go round, a corner at the time and de-chrome the car in the process. Hence the satin black doors without the chrome strip. The doors are re-skinned and any rust on any of the frame/panels has been cut out and replaced by a specialist. The bodywork has started to show some blemishes - no holes though. The chassis has always been wax-oyled and is absolutely solid. So, this could be the blank canvas for a performance B or a great starting point for a genuinely usable classic. Please get in touch for more info if required. I'm looking for £4450.

yes, I remember you saying about that so I did wonder if you got one, lucky you.

not heard this rendition before there is a docu on the making of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF_bHXuZ5KI

i am sure others have better info, but my only claim on the car was back in 2014 when at the time i was with 2gether, a car t boned me and i was given the option to repair the car myself then submit the receipts, or have someone else repair it. obviously the second option would cost more . but because at the time i had no spare cash to do the job myself - something i really wanted to do - the car ended up back at the factory, and was repaired to dare i say it better than it had been. i was concerned, given the factories estimate on repair costs the car would be written off, but it wasn't - thankfully. just my story on what happens with our cars.

One of the first LPs I bought, along with Buzzcocks and Siouxsie.

love this one stuart, a real classic.

I voted for Brexit. I've worked in Brussels and seen the empire building, unaccountability and monstrous waste first hand. Whatever you think is wrong with the UK government then multiply it countless times. At least we can vote our lot out. And, life is short. To paraphrase Anthony Hopkins - eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth that you're carrying in your heart like like hidden treasure. Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There's no time for anything else. Certainly not for arguing with strangers about politics on the internet.......

We have got what we wanted no i should say deserved. We didn't know what it was to be but didn't like what we had. We didn't know how to get there. We had an incompetent setup with parliament - all of them. It rumbled on unresolved for 5 yrs. Negotiating power diminished. Exact example of how not to deal with a highly complex situation. And now its done. Not going to be undone. What have we learnt. Nothing. People still whinging on about whats wrong. Is there anyone out there worth listening to. When you have all done with saying whats wrong maybe you will focus on what needs doing.

I voted to stay in the EU then, but having seen and read how the EU have behaved since I'd be tempted to change my mind. Would I vote to stay in a "Club" with France when they threaten to blockade us pre-Christmas just because they take the hump over not wanting to comply with our perfectly reasonable request for evidence over established fishing in our costal waters? Probably not. And the same applies to the bizare attitude of certain EU Countries over the use and distribution of covid vacines. Also levying (so Maurici tells us) 30% charge on temporary import of used cars to EU. Crazy behaviour, and not something I would want our Country and its government to be associated with.

That reminds me, it's well past the 14 days notification time, now, I may have just about got away with the camera van on the way to Quackers a month or two back - another 50mph drop, section.

I spotted the scamera van very early on the opposite side of the road, I thought he was getting the front of cars coming towards him, then I got a nice clear photo of the back of my car in the post again like you 58mph they must make a fortune on that stretch of road, it's very confusing, plus you go from dual carriageway with an island in the middle to three lane single carriageway quite often, two lanes uphill and one lane down.

Haha made in Poland I believe, following the cheaper labour perhaps? Up here in Scotland the government took over a shipyard, they also need new ferries. Ideal owning a shipyard. Nope they are to be made in turkey, Romania or Poland. Even with import tariffs much cheaper. The government(s) are nothing but a bunch of hypocrites.

The UK truckies i worked with think its great. They are now getting a decent wage.

oh wow, thats it... thankyou so much, i did look at cresta's this afternoon but all i saw were the wrap around windscreen model, so i discounted anything to do with the cresta.. mystery solved. sadly there is no one left alive who would have known, although oddly i regcogise the house in the photo. the car was my grandfathers, he must have visited one day and the photo shot.

I think it’s a winner winner chicken dinner: 1963 Vauxhall Cresta PB interior

What about a Vauxhall Cresta ?

But we’ve got our blue passports back Maurici, that’s the important thing! 😄 Makes me laugh when people voted to end free movement from Europe, then act surprised when movement into Europe is no longer free! There was a farmer on Woman’s hour this morning complaining about the pig slaughtering situation she voted for brexit but this wasn’t what she voted for… say what you like about “project fear” - it was certainly delivered on time and in budget!!

I put two small red plastic reflector lenses over mine on my old westy as I could not get any of the plastic plugs to fit as the hole was right on the curved lip of the bodywork spare wheel recess

I don’t think those ones are for a Westfield as the upper wishbones look to be symmetrical. Westfield top wishbones should have one leg longer than the other. you can buy them new from Westfield but I’m surprised nobody has an old one hidden away. https://parts.westfield-sportscars.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=126&search=Wishbon&description=true

A picture is worth 1000 words. dave

It's not nice waiting!