Comments on: Cabotage http://timworstall.com/2008/04/10/cabotage/ It is all obvious or trivial except... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:45:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Gillies http://timworstall.com/2008/04/10/cabotage/comment-page-1/#comment-10618 David Gillies Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:37:28 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/04/10/cabotage/#comment-10618 My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk. Surely this cannot be: I am agreeing wholeheartedly with john b! My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk. Surely this cannot be: I am agreeing wholeheartedly with john b!

]]> By: john b http://timworstall.com/2008/04/10/cabotage/comment-page-1/#comment-10610 john b Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:34:59 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/04/10/cabotage/#comment-10610 @ Mike - in the context of the UK media compared to the US media, Poles count as Mexicans for economic scare-stories, while South Asians count as Mexicans for political/demographic scare-stories. @ Mike – in the context of the UK media compared to the US media, Poles count as Mexicans for economic scare-stories, while South Asians count as Mexicans for political/demographic scare-stories.

]]> By: MikeinAppalachia http://timworstall.com/2008/04/10/cabotage/comment-page-1/#comment-10606 MikeinAppalachia Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:32:23 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/04/10/cabotage/#comment-10606 Well, at least the foreign lorry (that's a truck, right?) drivers in the UK will not be Mexicans. Not a lot of them anyway. Well, at least the foreign lorry (that’s a truck, right?) drivers in the UK will not be Mexicans. Not a lot of them anyway.

]]> By: John A http://timworstall.com/2008/04/10/cabotage/comment-page-1/#comment-10601 John A Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:56:26 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/04/10/cabotage/#comment-10601 "Really, so they will have to fill up their tanks with Deisel in the UK will they?" If they're transporting goods within the UK, then where else are they going to get refueled? Besides which, is it their fault that our diesel is so heavily taxed despite the fact that we produce it? “Really, so they will have to fill up their tanks with Deisel in the UK will they?”

If they’re transporting goods within the UK, then where else are they going to get refueled? Besides which, is it their fault that our diesel is so heavily taxed despite the fact that we produce it?

]]> By: Zorro http://timworstall.com/2008/04/10/cabotage/comment-page-1/#comment-10599 Zorro Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:51:21 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/04/10/cabotage/#comment-10599 "They will still have to pay UK taxes for providing UK services." Really, so they will have to fill up their tanks with Deisel in the UK will they? Z. “They will still have to pay UK taxes for providing UK services.”

Really, so they will have to fill up their tanks with Deisel in the UK will they?

Z.

]]> By: john b http://timworstall.com/2008/04/10/cabotage/comment-page-1/#comment-10584 john b Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:36:04 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/04/10/cabotage/#comment-10584 [also - you'd never guess from the Times report that, in crash mentioned at the end, the British minibus driver who hit the back of the Polish truck was stoned. Anyone want to bet how that story would've been reported in the absence of a Terror Foreign Driver to demonise...?] [also - you'd never guess from the Times report that, in crash mentioned at the end, the British minibus driver who hit the back of the Polish truck was stoned. Anyone want to bet how that story would've been reported in the absence of a Terror Foreign Driver to demonise...?]

]]> By: John A http://timworstall.com/2008/04/10/cabotage/comment-page-1/#comment-10581 John A Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:13:38 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/04/10/cabotage/#comment-10581 It will be more dangerous, since the foreigners will have to drive on the wrong side of the road in left hand drive vehicles. They will still have to pay UK taxes for providing UK services. The margins in truck driving/logistics are so tiny that it won't happen to any great extent unless a foreign company attempts to buy market share by transporting below cost and tries to bankrupt British firms in so doing. Then the fireworks will start... It will be more dangerous, since the foreigners will have to drive on the wrong side of the road in left hand drive vehicles.

They will still have to pay UK taxes for providing UK services.

The margins in truck driving/logistics are so tiny that it won’t happen to any great extent unless a foreign company attempts to buy market share by transporting below cost and tries to bankrupt British firms in so doing.

Then the fireworks will start…

]]> By: john b http://timworstall.com/2008/04/10/cabotage/comment-page-1/#comment-10578 john b Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:08:38 +0000 http://timworstall.com/2008/04/10/cabotage/#comment-10578 I like the way the protectionist eejits have fallen back on "ooh, but those filthy foreigners are so <i>dangerous</i>" gibbering: at least it implies that the "please save the poor hard-done-by British truckers we all know and love" rhetoric has failed. I like the way the protectionist eejits have fallen back on “ooh, but those filthy foreigners are so dangerous” gibbering: at least it implies that the “please save the poor hard-done-by British truckers we all know and love” rhetoric has failed.

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