Multi-tasking.
I can stand at the sink, hold a conversation, look out of the window and wash-up at the same time
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I can stand at the sink, hold a conversation, look out of the window and wash-up at the same time
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It has been shown that multi-tasking is a myth.
It shouldn't be hard to disprove a myth then. But what's it got to do with in or out of EU?
BTW, Kung Hei Fat Choi
The EEC no longer exists. It's been succeeded by the EU. All of the countries in the EEC (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany. ) are now in the EU and subject to the trading regulations of the EU.
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If you've managed to be rescued off a sinking ship by a much bigger, sea-worthy ship with lots of mod cons, you don't suddenly try and get back onto the sinking ship.
Yes, I realize that. I was referring to when the U.K. joined what was then the EEC in 1973.
Fine sentiment, which is this bigger, more sea-worthy ship that's going to rescue us?
Why? Is every other country in the world which trades with some EU member country also in the EFTA?
Obviously the point about the distances being further is valid, but I think the figures you've picked there are a little skewed. Yes, at the closest point it might be only 22 miles across The Channel from England to France, but how many goods are manufactured in Dover and sold in Calais? In reality, many things travel considerably further, especially if we're now including the easternmost members of the EU. And if you're going to use shortest possible distances for travel to the EU, use shortest possible distances to the U.S.A. as well, which is not 5000 miles.
But you were referring to the countries that were in the EEC, which are now in the EU:
They simply couldn't trade with those countries outside of the EU because those countries are in the EU.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. All I was saying is that the U.K. traded with countries which were in the EEC before the U.K. joined the EEC, and that if the U.K. withdrew from the present EU it would still trade with EU countries.
But quite obviously they are, to all intents and purposes, trading with the EU, following all the requirements, etc, of the EU.
I used 20-50 miles.
Travelling overland from Calais, Rotterdam, etc. Roll on-roll off ferries.
Oh OK, 4,500 miles then.
The cost difference in transport is evident.And they're not roll on-roll off ferries.
"Import from" - no problem.
But "export to" will have to meet any requirements that the EU demands. Including any additional import, customs, freight tolls.
Suppose that one of the problems became the difficulty of freight by UK vehicles through EU (Insurance, registration, work hour directives, vehicle taxation, etc). How would that impact our transport employers?
You see how complex the problem becomes?
Easy; the rest of the world.
BTW, as a nation, we wouldn't need 'rescuing'; all we hear from 'remainers' is that poor little UK is going to be cast out into the wide world with no-one to hold our hand. Jeeez, is no-one proud of their country anymore?????
I'll dig back a bit (when I have the time) to your comments on our International Aid donations, and compare that with how much we receive in International Aid.
Didn't you know, we saved the world (according to Gordon) not t'other way round.
So your analogy is fallacious.
Pride doesn't pay the bills. It often comes before the fall.
I think you're just saying the first (and daftest) thing that comes into your head.
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