Jamesuk
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Great website a friend of a friend set up
http://www.pollstation.uk/eu-referendum/
http://www.pollstation.uk/eu-referendum/
Brexit and sailing
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Champagne Murphy
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Jamesuk
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"Anything about the EU is relative to this thread as it is a source of information that can be used to interpret the laws we have now and how they might change our sailing.
Flicking through <link above> it would seem for sailing Northern Europe we would have a similar set up as we do now but for new nations to the EU and poorer states we may have a new set of agreements that perhaps may require visa's but if they make it attractive for UK sailors then the wealth etc they need from our tourists will benefit them.
Realistically if DAD taking the family skiing the grown up kids will all come if it is free. I cant imagine Croatia pitting up more barriers to what we have now with the UK out. Business as usual.
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snowleopard
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So what do we think would happen with booze runs? Presumably the freedom to take quantities of booze bought duty-paid in either direction will be curtailed. Will we be back to the days of 2 bottles of wine? One one occasion I thought it would be worth buying a few litres of cheap plonk and paying the duty; they charged twice as much in duty as I had paid in the hypermarket.
macd
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Maybe you know this, but UK duty is charged entirely on the alcohol content (about £27 per litre of pure alcohol, IIRC). So the duty on 'cheap plonk' is proportionally very much higher than on the classy stuff we oenophiles (ha!) like to quaff. (The duty on a typical 75cl bottle of wine is around £2, whether it's gutrot or 50 year-old chateau-bottled. On top of that there's customs duty and VAT).
To answer your main question, I'd have thought it likely that any form of Brexit would take duty-free arrangements back to what they once were: i.e. a major boon to the robbing b*st*rds at airports and a meagre bonus for travellers. Certainly that's what applies between the UK and Norway now.
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BurnitBlue
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Most folk on this thread imagine that a UK exit from the EU will leave a stable EU behind, IMO Sweden will follow rather quickly. The Denmark. France under La Penn will show interest in a referendum of their own. I reckon Germany will bail at the first sign of disintegration to avoid having to pick up the bill for turning the lights out.
Very interesting times ahead and LOTS of journalistic paper to be sold so expect the newspapers to be gung-ho and support Brexit (at the start) for the chance to sell lots and lots of newspapers.
Very interesting times ahead and LOTS of journalistic paper to be sold so expect the newspapers to be gung-ho and support Brexit (at the start) for the chance to sell lots and lots of newspapers.
RAI
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I think you will find that the EU will be more stable without the UK sniping all the time. For this reason.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/85914510
Daydream believer
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But the EU survived quite happily without us ( Infact they did not really want us at first) so why can they not survive now.
People keep saying that the EU wants/needs us but if they did they would not have watered Dave's demands to such an extent.
I do not trust the EU one bit & once we vote to stay ( which we will as there are too many socialists involved) they will renege on the deal for sure
Poignard
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And £5 spending money?
