Piers
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Hi Irish Rover. Answer? No. How about you asking the government?
Jersey re Brexit
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Hi Irish Rover. Answer? No. How about you asking the government?
Irish Rover
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Which Government? And what would I ask them - Piers on the ybw forum says Jersey is part of the British isles. Is he right? Is there such an entity as the British isles? I think I'll pass, thanks. Beware of wiki.
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guernseyman
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Let's be clear: 'British Isles' is a geographic term and and has no defined meaning.
In common parlance the term is often understood to include the Channel Islands, and exclude Chausey. However many learned books on Natural History exclude the Channel Islands. There is a good reason - the Channel Islands are proximate to Normandy, not England. Thus our fauna and flora most closely resemble our nearest neighbour.
Authors who pretend that the British Iles include the Channel Islands have to keep repeating comments on whether particular fauna and flora are, or are not, present in the Channel Islands.
dom
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+1
I'm a mixed-race raggie from Dublin, the capital of Ireland and geographically part of the British Isles. Refer to me as a BAME boat person from the North Atlantic Isles and I'd wonder if I'd been mistaken for a Viking. Not that I have any hard feelings against the Vikings for turning 'Duiblinn' over and renaming it to Dyflin in the late ninth century. Correct me in the use of the all-encompassing word 'Ireland' here (as opposed to Eire, or Republic of Ireland) and I'd probably laugh!
In any event, the 'British Isles' toponym can be traced back to the old French word Bretaigne, which entered old English as Brytenlond...
...the visiting of which is the subject of this thread
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guernseyman
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When I watch the 6 Nations Rugby, i note that the Ireland team comprises players from both the Republic and Northern Ireland. That's the way it should be.
KTY
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Farsco,
They don't charge VAT in the CI (Good place to pick up an Iphone!) but bigger influence is that there is no Duty either. I filled up in St Peter Port last summer - from memory around 60ppl when South Coast Marinas were charging 110 (on a 60/40 Duty basis) (and that for un died white Diesel).
They don't charge VAT in the CI (Good place to pick up an Iphone!) but bigger influence is that there is no Duty either. I filled up in St Peter Port last summer - from memory around 60ppl when South Coast Marinas were charging 110 (on a 60/40 Duty basis) (and that for un died white Diesel).
Mr Googler
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IDAMAY explained that earlier in the thread.
Another reason why IOM is an expensive place to live. £1.55 for a loaf of bread....I ask you!
Another reason why IOM is an expensive place to live. £1.55 for a loaf of bread....I ask you!