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Will end up like Belgium where English is the lingua franca in many companies to avoid choosing or favouring one language over the other.
Great way to limit the employee gene pool and encourage companies to move elsewhere: just ask Bank of Montreal which says "hi" (from its HQ in...Toronto...).
Great way to limit the employee gene pool and encourage companies to move elsewhere: just ask Bank of Montreal which says "hi" (from its HQ in...Toronto...).
January 2, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Will end up like Belgium where English is the lingua franca in many companies to avoid choosing or favouring one language over the other.
Great way to limit the employee gene pool and encourage companies to move elsewhere: just ask Bank of Montreal which says "hi" (from its HQ in...Toronto...).
Great way to limit the employee gene pool and encourage companies to move elsewhere: just ask Bank of Montreal which says "hi" (from its HQ in...Toronto...).
Frostbite reminds us once again that the cheerleaders and negotiators of Brexit were that most toxic of cocktails: absolute ignorance vigorously shabken with total arrogance.
See also this twaddle in today’s FT:
www.ft.com/content/42b3... The Brexit implementation fiasco
See also this twaddle in today’s FT:
www.ft.com/content/42b3... The Brexit implementation fiasco
The Brexit implementation fiasco
It is not too late to reverse bad policy but that requires good governance
www.ft.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Frostbite reminds us once again that the cheerleaders and negotiators of Brexit were that most toxic of cocktails: absolute ignorance vigorously shabken with total arrogance.
See also this twaddle in today’s FT:
www.ft.com/content/42b3... The Brexit implementation fiasco
See also this twaddle in today’s FT:
www.ft.com/content/42b3... The Brexit implementation fiasco
Another rhetorical approximation made flesh.
December 8, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Another rhetorical approximation made flesh.
You remain the (checks just about everywhere) one and only example.
If anything there has been a one-way flow in the other direction: "I voted Remain, but..."
If anything there has been a one-way flow in the other direction: "I voted Remain, but..."
November 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
You remain the (checks just about everywhere) one and only example.
If anything there has been a one-way flow in the other direction: "I voted Remain, but..."
If anything there has been a one-way flow in the other direction: "I voted Remain, but..."
Frostbiting the hand that feeds you?
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Frostbiting the hand that feeds you?
I agree he mixed a bunch of things, possibly deliberately possibly out of ignorance, or more likely both. As well as talking about legal residents he was also talking about retiring in the future. Slippery and slithery indeed.
October 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I agree he mixed a bunch of things, possibly deliberately possibly out of ignorance, or more likely both. As well as talking about legal residents he was also talking about retiring in the future. Slippery and slithery indeed.
“…everyone who enjoys living and who enjoys the prospect of retirement, which I suspect is many years hence, enjoys thinking about retirement, the one thing is that your investment will be safe and your future will be safe whatever the decision on June 23rd.”
October 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“…everyone who enjoys living and who enjoys the prospect of retirement, which I suspect is many years hence, enjoys thinking about retirement, the one thing is that your investment will be safe and your future will be safe whatever the decision on June 23rd.”
…laws and international rules that mean that if you are legally and ordinarily resident in another country then even if your home country votes to leave the European Union all your rights, all your privileges are carried on and are respected so the one thing I would say to you and indeed to…
October 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
…laws and international rules that mean that if you are legally and ordinarily resident in another country then even if your home country votes to leave the European Union all your rights, all your privileges are carried on and are respected so the one thing I would say to you and indeed to…
“I’ve got friends who live in France as well and one of the things is that many of them are people, or they have homes in France, many of them are voting in favour of Britain leaving the European Union because they think it is in Britain’s interests and they also know that there are international…
October 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“I’ve got friends who live in France as well and one of the things is that many of them are people, or they have homes in France, many of them are voting in favour of Britain leaving the European Union because they think it is in Britain’s interests and they also know that there are international…
Absolutely. We (UK citizens) are being treated exactly as the UK voted for.
This upsets Leave voters who understood none of this and still don’t. No sympathy from me.
Upsets Remain voters who generally knew this would happen. Every sympathy from me: not EU’s fault and no immediate solution…
This upsets Leave voters who understood none of this and still don’t. No sympathy from me.
Upsets Remain voters who generally knew this would happen. Every sympathy from me: not EU’s fault and no immediate solution…
October 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Absolutely. We (UK citizens) are being treated exactly as the UK voted for.
This upsets Leave voters who understood none of this and still don’t. No sympathy from me.
Upsets Remain voters who generally knew this would happen. Every sympathy from me: not EU’s fault and no immediate solution…
This upsets Leave voters who understood none of this and still don’t. No sympathy from me.
Upsets Remain voters who generally knew this would happen. Every sympathy from me: not EU’s fault and no immediate solution…
Surely you are not suggesting that when he confidently assured an audience member at a Brexit TV "debate" that there would be no restriction on visits to her home in France after Brexit "... because of the Vienna Convention..." Michael Gove was talking complete and utter bollocks?
October 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Surely you are not suggesting that when he confidently assured an audience member at a Brexit TV "debate" that there would be no restriction on visits to her home in France after Brexit "... because of the Vienna Convention..." Michael Gove was talking complete and utter bollocks?
You have already covered the homeopathic remedy...
October 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
You have already covered the homeopathic remedy...
They said why is everyone complaining about a simple €5 visa; it’s all going to be so easy; like going to the US; blah; blah; blah
No we said, it’s a tiny bit more complicated…(like all of the simpilism then and since).
Remoaner they parroted.
FAFO. We told you so.
Now they should just STFU.
No we said, it’s a tiny bit more complicated…(like all of the simpilism then and since).
Remoaner they parroted.
FAFO. We told you so.
Now they should just STFU.
October 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
They said why is everyone complaining about a simple €5 visa; it’s all going to be so easy; like going to the US; blah; blah; blah
No we said, it’s a tiny bit more complicated…(like all of the simpilism then and since).
Remoaner they parroted.
FAFO. We told you so.
Now they should just STFU.
No we said, it’s a tiny bit more complicated…(like all of the simpilism then and since).
Remoaner they parroted.
FAFO. We told you so.
Now they should just STFU.
Welcome to UK IHT on UK situs assets.
October 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Welcome to UK IHT on UK situs assets.
Raises tiny amount of tax for a lot of effort, avoided by families with established companies but not start-up entrepreneurs. AEAT is a state-within-a-state destroying everything in its path.
The worst tax system and most corrupt inspectors in the world.
Certainly not something to emulate.
The worst tax system and most corrupt inspectors in the world.
Certainly not something to emulate.
October 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Raises tiny amount of tax for a lot of effort, avoided by families with established companies but not start-up entrepreneurs. AEAT is a state-within-a-state destroying everything in its path.
The worst tax system and most corrupt inspectors in the world.
Certainly not something to emulate.
The worst tax system and most corrupt inspectors in the world.
Certainly not something to emulate.
See also: Nigel “I worked in the metals business” Farage.
October 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
See also: Nigel “I worked in the metals business” Farage.
I am surely not the only one who sees "Gully Foyle" on the page but the voice in my head is saying "Gullible Foole"?
October 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
I am surely not the only one who sees "Gully Foyle" on the page but the voice in my head is saying "Gullible Foole"?
Sorry, are you properly comparing apples with apples (as it were)? You make no mention of the EU and Waitrose bananas being straight or bendy.
October 6, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Sorry, are you properly comparing apples with apples (as it were)? You make no mention of the EU and Waitrose bananas being straight or bendy.
A broad church becomes a narrow sect.
Brexit really has rotted the soul, heart and brains of the Tories. As many of us suspected it would at the time of the Ref.
Sad.
Brexit really has rotted the soul, heart and brains of the Tories. As many of us suspected it would at the time of the Ref.
Sad.
October 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A broad church becomes a narrow sect.
Brexit really has rotted the soul, heart and brains of the Tories. As many of us suspected it would at the time of the Ref.
Sad.
Brexit really has rotted the soul, heart and brains of the Tories. As many of us suspected it would at the time of the Ref.
Sad.
If they cannot, or will not, comply with local laws and will not pay the tariffs set on the products/services they supply (yes, Mr President, those are tariffs too) then they can shove their services where the sun don’t shine.
August 27, 2025 at 7:38 AM
If they cannot, or will not, comply with local laws and will not pay the tariffs set on the products/services they supply (yes, Mr President, those are tariffs too) then they can shove their services where the sun don’t shine.
Mainly, I suspect, because (i) FISH!; (ii) they don’t understand the issues and key UKG incompetence and greed; and (iii) haven’t actually read the case.
I am sure you are an honourable exception to all three.
I am sure you are an honourable exception to all three.
June 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Mainly, I suspect, because (i) FISH!; (ii) they don’t understand the issues and key UKG incompetence and greed; and (iii) haven’t actually read the case.
I am sure you are an honourable exception to all three.
I am sure you are an honourable exception to all three.
The Spam Party?
Works on a few levels.
Works on a few levels.
June 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The Spam Party?
Works on a few levels.
Works on a few levels.
The Reform Acts, the Reform Club and others will certainly concur.
June 7, 2025 at 9:47 AM
The Reform Acts, the Reform Club and others will certainly concur.
