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Marco Gilardetti wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 3:35 am Yes, thank you, I've seen it mentioned in another recent thread so I've browsed it a bit; I've also been impressed by the huge assortment of parts offered for sale. Unfortunately buying from the States and dealing with double VAT, duty fares and postage "inspection" overcharge is a "multiple nightmare" (however, dealing with UK is just the same since that brexit foolishness). Still, in case everything else fails, it's reassuring to know that this shop exists!

Marco Gilardetti wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 3:35 am Yes, thank you, I've seen it mentioned in another recent thread so I've browsed it a bit; I've also been impressed by the huge assortment of parts offered for sale. Unfortunately buying from the States and dealing with double VAT, duty fares and postage "inspection" overcharge is a "multiple nightmare" (however, dealing with UK is just the same since that brexit foolishness). Still, in case everything else fails, it's reassuring to know that this shop exists!

Steve wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 4:35 am

Marco Gilardetti wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 3:35 am Yes, thank you, I've seen it mentioned in another recent thread so I've browsed it a bit; I've also been impressed by the huge assortment of parts offered for sale. Unfortunately buying from the States and dealing with double VAT, duty fares and postage "inspection" overcharge is a "multiple nightmare" (however, dealing with UK is just the same since that brexit foolishness). Still, in case everything else fails, it's reassuring to know that this shop exists!

I'd hazard a guess that the vast majority of collectors voted for Brexit; that's those of us either old enough or interested enough in history to recall that Great Britain was at one time perfectly capable of deciding what shape its own bananas should be. The gradual erosion of national sovereignty but more importantly, democracy, at the hands of unelected (and occasionally corrupt) bureaucrats milking the system, must surely be something that the population of any country would have legitimate concerns about. The trouble with the UK is we've become so conditioned to apologising for everything we've done and continue to do, we can't just accept the painful truth that the public had "awoken" to the problems and rebelled against the system that had conspired to prevent them from having a voice for half a century.

Sorry, Marco, you didn't ask for a lecture but if you want a good example of the complete and utter failure of the EU, look no further than the Covid fiasco. If there was ever an opportunity to show the rest of the world that the EU wasn't a toothless tiger, that was it. They failed to co-ordinate a rapid response to the pandemic. The UK sorted its own vaccines out ahead of the rest. If we'd still been bound by EU regulations we'd probably still be queuing for our first jabs.

epigramophone wrote: Fri Jul 07, 2023 8:40 am I agree that the spectacle of the political elite holding drinks parties whilst ordering the general public to cower in their homes is indefensible, but I am proud to have voted to leave the EU. I simply wanted my country back.
A country which cannot make it's own laws, control it's own borders and mint it's own currency is not fit to call itself a nation.

This forum is supposed to be above politics. Your comment about "Brexit foolishness" was provocative and got the response it deserved. Further justification of our democratic decision to leave.