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tillson, you disagreed, fair enough, derf is a case in point. He is a highly skilled worker in the NHS, he pays his taxes and he does not believe in brexit. He's moving to an EU country and he is not alone. We get to keep the unskilled immigrants while we lose derfs. How good to the country is...

flud, you disagreed, fair enough, but do you know that foreign investments in the UK add up to 1.32 trillions Pounds?, not millions or billions, trillions. Get that figure - it has a long way to go but if foreigners don't believe brexiters are going to make this country perform better than EU...

the current foreign divestment runs in billions a month, completely overwhelms one or two sizeable foreign takeovers (eg ARM holding). Even before brexit happens for real, we are losing high skill jobs. That puts pressure on the Pound and tax income and therefore public services. If you happen...

if he has a bad leg, then a BBS01 kit that comes with a thumb throttle is the way to go.

I like a coalition government.

flud, I don't think you understand 'free movement' correctly. It's just mean you are free to apply for a job that you qualify for, not that you can practice as you do in the UK. Not just France, Germany is also pretty strict on qualifications too. As with any ski instructor 'helping' on the...

have you read Peter Mayle's 'A year in Provence?' it's a pretty good description of French psyche. France is very unionised. French do not like buying goods and services from shops owned by or being served by foreigners, consequently, jobs are offered first to French because of the language and...

brexit can only happen with support from Corbynite MPs. Owen Smith is quite clear, he wants the single market. Corbyn does not want to say.

he said on BBC he voted remain but insists on 'brexit is brexit' whatever that means.

It is clear that Westminster has lost touch with a large percentage of English voters before the referendum who then voted for change but may not bother to vote next time. That contrasts with Scotland where Holyrood has not. If a second referendum is called now, the remainers are still motivated...

I beg to differ. Unless you can magically reprogram the torque response, using the linear output of a torque sensor to replace a thumb throttle is not very good.

I don't think that will be the case even if we do not stay in the single market. Our production cost is very much at the same place as France & Germany, all the defensive import duty tariffs against other countries outside the EU will have to stay more or less at the same level for the...

import duty collected by the UK from China (and other countries outside the EU) less a small percentage for our HMRC goes straight to EU coffers. If we remain in the single market after brexit, that situation will continue. If we are not, then HMRC keeps all the money.

people tend to change from crank to hub as they get older because hub bikes offer more relaxing ride. You are lucky, get younger Rosie.

you now sound like a socialist, flud.

can you give me an example of something the EU imposes on us without our government signed up to it in the first place? I don't think you can. Brexit leaders mislead their supporters on the issue of controls. What they want is to reverse the pooling of controls because they are convinced that...

slow rolling wide tyres (as opposite to fast rolling skinny tyres), lower inflation pressure, hydraulic brakes, short, sharp and evenly spaced pulls on brakes will help. Try to keep the speed of the bike as low as possible, to less than 15mph, to avoid brake fading.

How much and which controls ceded to the EU are subject to our own veto, so you may disagree with our government of the day's policy but that is much better than the alternative which is leaving the controls in the hand of simplistic, populistic politicians like Donald J Trump.

OG, that's Norway Plus, that potentially can keep both sides of the referendum together. I think 7 years not enough though. There should be a mechanism that we can pay the EU to keep control on EU immigration, eg participation into an EU wide JSA scheme.

Brexiters are anal about controls. remainers want to share controls. Same reason why people over the ages formed partnerships and joint enterprises.