Re: Americans: that clueless cretin you elected just killed the CVE program :-(

On 2025-04-19, David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> wrote:

On 19/04/2025 01:04, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 16:21:45 +0100, chrisq wrote:
 

The EU countries are even worse, with tariffs imposed + vat, on most
non EU sourced product. An organisation designed very much to be
protectionist.

 
Ummm ... wasn?t it your choice to leave the EU?

>
VAT is charged o everything, so internal and external product, so no
idea why its seen as a tariff wall. As for "protectionist" yes, just
like the USA where everything has to be in Feet, worse US pints and
gallons are the wrong size...
>

I really wish we would complete the process of moving to metric as well. :-(
We are currently in some half-way situation that feels like it is currently
static and unmoving.

For example, metres/kilometres are a hell of a lot nicer and easier
to work with than the miles/yards/feet stuff.

Direct personal experience here as OS maps have been metric for decades
and the standard hiking maps (1:25000) are easy to work with provided
you know how to read a map (which I do).

Simon.

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