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BREXIT - what it means for small manufacturers
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fcb:
So has anyone done any planning for 1st Jan 2021?  Stock piled parts, bog roll, camembert?
bd139:
Yes plenty.

Really everyone should have 4 weeks worth of food and stuff in anyway. This just in time society is rather fragile. I know that after being unemployed and hungry a couple of times in my life :)
dave j:

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The Eurovision Song Contest gets high viewing figures and is relatively cheap (when you take into consideration how much air time they get out of it). It's going nowhere. Just be glad we live in a multi-channel/multi-platform world where there is plenty of other stuff to watch instead. I remember the 1970s where it was far more prominent than now.
Zero999:

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--- Quote from: bd139 on December 12, 2020, 07:46:22 pm ---Bugger!  :-DD

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The Eurovision Song Contest gets high viewing figures and is relatively cheap (when you take into consideration how much air time they get out of it). It's going nowhere. Just be glad we live in a multi-channel/multi-platform world where there is plenty of other stuff to watch instead. I remember the 1970s where it was far more prominent than now.

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The 90s were bad enough. There were satellite and cable channels, but we didn't have them back then.


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--- Quote from: Zero999 on December 12, 2020, 05:59:36 pm ---Many countries sharing the the same rules and currency brings a range of benefits, regarding trade and freedom, but it also has downsides too. Getting the EU to change a certain rule is challenging, because it has to be agreed between all member states, which can result in unnecessary delays. A classic example is the COVID-19 vaccine, which was swiftly approved by the UK, but will take awhile for the EU to agree on it.

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EU law allows individual member states to give emergency approval for a drug which is precisely how we managed to approve the COVID vaccine as we're still in the transition period and subject to the very EU laws our government have said would prevent us approving the vaccine's use.

It's yet more lies and bluster from our own government.

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That's not true at all. If it were, then I'm sure many other EU member states would have approved the vaccine by now.

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No, it really is true. Look it up.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/04/how-vaccine-approval-compares-between-the-uk-europe-and-the-us

https://www.ft.com/content/021720c2-157e-40b4-b2f9-33515032fb19

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Alright, I stand corrected. It just goes to show one can't rely on everything the read on the Internet and watch on YouTube.  :palm:

I still think the UK is doing the right thing. The EU seems to be discouraging member states to follow the UK in granting emergency approval, which I think is wrong. I can understand some countries will be more cautious about approving the vaccine, than others, but let them make up their own minds!
SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: dave j on December 12, 2020, 08:58:51 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on December 12, 2020, 07:46:22 pm ---Bugger!  :-DD

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The Eurovision Song Contest gets high viewing figures and is relatively cheap (when you take into consideration how much air time they get out of it). It's going nowhere. Just be glad we live in a multi-channel/multi-platform world where there is plenty of other stuff to watch instead. I remember the 1970s where it was far more prominent than now.

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We wouldn't have ABBA without it!  :D
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