Re: The EU's worldview in a nutshell


"True Blue" <Whig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Which is why London and Kent are witnessing a mass influx of French
companies who are taking advantage of the relative "can-do" work ethic of
the English.

Not exactly.

The French are moving in because it's easier to do business here.

You can set up a company in 24 hours and be trading the next day.

In France it'll take at least two months and you have to convince the local
mayor and commune that you're a fit and proper person to pay them bribes.

But as there's nothing to stop a UK company doing business in France many
French start-up companies happen to be UK registered.

The people concerned do business in France, live in France and work in
France, have a 'brass plate' on a door somewhere in Kent and pay as little
tax as their expensive accountants can arrange.

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.





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