Naive of you if I might say [8|] Not so.................we have the SVA, they dont. Why refer old cars and their components to a modern TUV system, If you cannot fit a perfectly good brand new aftermarket part made to OEM standards because it is not an original part from the original (now defunct manaufacturer) then the world has gone mad. Will the Germans disallow all their classic Porkers on their roads if a perfectly sound aftermarket part is from India? You are missing the point I am afraid as it is a much wider net that is cast if you read between the lines for it will kill the hundreds and thousands of jobs in the aftermarket car industry in the uk which is the envy of Europe. Hence the huge amount of inovative independent car makers in the UK (and why most F1 cars are built here). The Germans and French etc have no way of monitoring such an industry so In Germany you have to crash test cars. If that happened here most small makers would go out of business as they couldnt afford to build a load of cars to crash test them.
Exactly my point above - this has huge implications for any old or relatively old vehicle. Problem is that apart from good ol Maggie our successive Govt`s are and have been a bunch of soft fairy`s who never say no and then (unlike the competition over the channel) administer any rule with a rod of iron with the bloated Civil Service we`ve inherited.
Problem is Alasdair its all been forgotten! The absolute disgrace (in my eyes) is the Labour rabble baying at the Coalition that their efforts are wrong, ineffective, too much etc etc etc. All they do is criticise but seem to have shrugged off the blame and actually believe it themselves. Milliband said they made mistakes but said it only once and immediately continued critiquing the present Govt............to**er!! Mr Brown (dont get me going!!!!) if he ran a company as a director he would be in court. He set up the FSA to manage and regulate the banks, knew it was failing, was warned it was failing and still carried on. When Major handed over the reins the country was in good shape, since the Labour lot came in they created 720,000 more civil servants, lost 25% of British manufacturing (yes 25%) ironically a decline in what was a boom era in the noughties!!!! Brown accepted EU regulations on our unique Pensions system that worked well for decades (but the EU saw it as unfair investment in British Companies) thereby stuffing most of us.........................the list goes on.................... Emigrating is not always the answer if you really look hard into it as we did a few years ago but if I were a lot lot younger I`d go as my skills would be snapped up abroad but I cant be *rsed as I have workd hard for a nice house in a village overlooking the countryside in a lovely part of the world and having been abroad a lot cant see anywhere much better to live despite the current problems. Ho hum.................... rant over.................back to cars................... [
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'Much less alarmed' could also be interpreted as much less prepared, for any possible consequences of their own lack of reading between the lines, something like Chamberlain during WW2 comes to mind. I don't count myself as one of the doom sayers and have said so elsewhere but I do count myself as someone of a high enough intelligence to ask the question 'what could this actually lead to?' It's no good saying after the event 'Oh we didn't think they meant this or that', who would be the biggest fools then? Always be prepared is my Moto, it's how I do everything if life. I hope you are right and this is all anti EU hype but lets's face the facts shall we, the EU has made some crazy decisions in the past and I have no doubt will continue to do so until checked. Pete
] Didn't the EU break the cartel that manufacturers had over car servicing? so why would they impose one for car parts? As lowtimer says, there's a load of conjecture here, that's all. And there does appear to be another side... [link]http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?f=23&t=1190529&nmt=RE%3A+Modified+cars+safe%2C+for+now.[/link] btw - 720000 extra civil servants - sounds so much worse than 720000 extra doctors, nurses, teachers, police officers... (there are only around 600,000 civil servants total, but many million public sector employees, most doing useful jobs) And Brown didn't cause the global financial crisis - although he was almost as bad as the tories (who were calling for even less regulation) in being seduced by the bankers. Labour chose to spend the extra tax revenues, The Tories would have given it to their rich mates in tax cuts (see GW Bush). And oh yes - the decline of British manufacturing - how long has that been going on? 60 years? 100 years? Difficult to pin on Blair et al.
Its a nightmare alright! I know it sounds terrible to harp on or compare the past but when I was a small lad growing up in the 60's we had a manufacturing base, an inventiveness and schools and education that were the envy of the world and we all lived in a respectful society. I do feel a huge sense of loss as I see society dumbed down by presenting celebrities as heroes and an ever more anarchic mix of unsettled divided futureless ignorant people totally ignored by Govt (at their peril) yet who pass on their poor views and values at an ever expanding rate. I have totally given up any entrepreneurial ambitions (wealth creator/contributor) as it was too hard to keep anything you made due to boom and bust ( I ran my own Construction Company for 18 years contracting to the utility companies) however I note that in the last decade Labour managed to ensure that the civil service and local government pay structure has overtaken the private sector in many many areas. This means that the wealth spenders (non contributors) get paid more than the wealth creators in many instances. Interestingly - the biggest employer in Northern Ireland is the government!!!!!!!! So that means there are more wealth spenders in NI than creators!!!! How does that work!!! Still....................I`m here, working, got a nice lifestyle so......................ho hum.
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