Brexit Economic Assessment - in. Politics

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Trans Am wrote, boycott - You May be right and maybe I am expecting too much by being a week late for a service, But you sound just like one of the Eu parasites that I am talking about with your do as I say attitude and no flexibility.

The trouble is that you stated that you were 3 weeks late for the service and not a week as you are now saying!
As Mr. Devil has pointed out a contract is a contract, remember a contract works both ways.
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Boycott -
Both you and Devil have have stated what I have been trying to get across which was the NO flexibility at all From Mercedes despite the amount of money I have spent with them over the years there is no loyalty at all on their behalf - I had two Vauxhall Astravans a few years ago which were never on time for service often as much as a month late due to running around all over the country and taken in when it was convenient for me to do so and it was never an issue with Vauxhall - You Cannot do business with anyone unless you have flexibility whether in a contract or not - As you have rightly stated it works both ways or should but not with Mercedes
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Imagine – you have a severe health issue requiring specialist help. You phone a doctor who says that he is more or less fully booked for three months but that he has a cancellation which gives a free slot next Thursday at 4 o'clock. You accept that appointment but you cannot make it to the surgery at that time because a client has unexpectedly arrived with a potentially large contract to negotiate. Without even informing the doctor to cancel the appointment, you do not turn up. A couple of days later, the pain you are feeling gets a lot worse and you go along to the surgery, where the receptionist will tell you politely that the doctor is fully booked and unavailable, even for emergencies.

Do you really mean that doctors should have sufficient free time to cope with unexpected emergencies, even if it means inconveniencing all his existing patients? An appointment is an appointment.
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Devil i think you really have lost the plot
The title of this thread is - Brexit Economic Assessment - It is not about Doctors appointments that you miss or dentists appointments that you miss and an appointment may have been an appointment when you were younger but in this day and age in all business there is a great deal of flexibility where appointments are concerned except if you are a money grabbing car manufacturer from Germany - I wonder if that my circumstances had happened in Germany would it have been the same outcome - I think not as they definitely would not get away with it with their own people They only take the P**s out of Foreigners
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71 Trans Am wrote: Mon Nov 02, 2020 12:29 pm Devil i think you really have lost the plot
No! It is you who lost the plot several posts ago by introducing the notion of Mercedes being inflexible. I only added an example to make it clearer that an appointment is an appointment and not just some airy-fairy idea that any time will do.
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Devil – Pointless taking this any further you have well and truly derailed this thread onto appointments –

My point was we are dictated to by the EU on every single issue in life and they get away with anything they want no matter what, And here in the UK we just have to put up with it.
Once we are out and get a proper government we stand a chance to move forward with our own choices and decisions and hopefully better this country.
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71 Trans Am wrote: Mon Nov 02, 2020 1:42 pm and hopefully better this country.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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71 Trans Am wrote: Mon Nov 02, 2020 1:42 pm Devil – Pointless taking this any further you have well and truly derailed this thread onto appointments –

My point was we are dictated to by the EU on every single issue in life and they get away with anything they want no matter what, And here in the UK we just have to put up with it.
Once we are out and get a proper government we stand a chance to move forward with our own choices and decisions and hopefully better this country.
What nonsense, the UK created almost all the regulations we follow in the EU. We are stricter on them than any other EU country. The ones you might be referring to are perhaps things like rights for workers, clean beaches and other ones we have benefitted from that the UK would not have brought in?

As to a proper Government, I presume you think the one currently in power, that has brought you this far out of the EU with no-deal, is that ‘proper’ government? :lol:
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Re, being late for the service, stop moaning, you sign a contract, end off, its the same for everyone, including people who buy Mercs in other European country's.
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German cars overpriced and unreliable money pits, I would buy Jap any day, erm except Nissan
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I believe it took the EU years to catch up with the uK on paternity leave etc
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Working for Finnish companies, I can say that Scandinavia has been miles ahead on paternity leave, as they are on most public services, than the UK
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I did not suggest an EU directive. Merely that other EU states took a long time to get up to speed with the UK on this topic. I accept that I could have worded it better.
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I am sure anyone living in Cyprus and looking at H&S in Cyprus, compared to the UK, will see a vast difference. I have been to Spain a lot and similarly, much more lax H&S.
There are many more examples of how the EU can have Directives interpreted and administered differently in different countries.

The EU ‘laws’ were communal agreed laws that in most cases, the UK had a veto over. So the Leave campaigns ‘selling’ of the big bad EU was rather biased.

Now, we all accept that the UK has left the EU and likely with no deal, but I am sure that everyone will look back at the reasons they were influenced to vote one way or another was not as honest or informed as it should have been.
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