OT: Honda and the EU

[bert]

I'm thinking more Holyhead and Stranraer as everything goes through Ireland :-)

[alan_m]

In this context free means free of tariff.

In the future the goods may not be free of tariffs but that doesn't necessarily have to change what happens at the point of import. No cash has to change hands the ports. If the paperwork lists the contents, the tariff payable and the method of how the tax was, or will, be paid then nothing physically will change at the import point.

The red tape is done in anonymous offices and can be sorted even before the goods are due for shipment. This already happens - no goods are shipped without the relevant paperwork. It's only different red tape and payment of tariffs that may/will change but this doesn't necessarily delay the physical transport of the goods in any way over and above what currently happens.

[RJH]

I can't be bothered to read it again right now, so over to good ol' Wikipedia:

In the preface of a 1947 Ukrainian edition of Animal Farm, he (Orwell) explained how escaping the communist purges in Spain taught him "how easily totalitarian propaganda can control the opinion of enlightened people in democratic countries".

[RJH]

it's not 'equal' - it's according to need.

There isn't any one 'society', but most are based on (feudal) systems of militarised land grabs that set the scene for where we are today.

On the rest of your message.

There has never been a 'socialist' country - it's a theoretical construct.

As to whether realisation of the theory would give rise to corruption - don't know. But to suggest that 'our world' has got corruption pretty much sorted is far-fetched.

[Fredxxx]

The difference is too trivial to concern you, unless you feel it is a Remoaner thing to look silly arguing a pointless argument.

I also regularly have items shipped from the US. It takes 2 days, the same time it takes from a continental European supplier. In fact shipments from the US are more reliably on time.

[T i m]

I guess time will tell how 'pointless' it is.

Nice anecdote, thanks.

Cheers, T i m

[T i m]

I don't know why but reading that made me think of this:

Cheers, T i m

[RJH]

Made me chuckle :-)

I suspect in their oxbridgey way they were pointing to the idealism of a post-capitalist communist society.

[T i m]

And me, every time I see it. Luckily the daughter (now 27) was exposed to plenty of MP, Douglas Adams and Pratchett when she was younger and now appreciates it all and realises how much of it can be found in everyday situations. ;-)

Yeah, I'm sure there was a message of some sort.

Cheers, T i m