It's been a while since I've had a rant about Brexit. Steph was keeping schtum on her views which tend to veer to the right of centre so are more likely to be pro-Brexit.
But, as ever, a very interesting video from one of my favourite YouTubers:
What we have here is a Morris 1100 estate that was bought for £2200 from Sweden and that eventually cost more than twice that due to a combination of transport costs (unavoidable) and British and Swedish bureaucracy and taxes which wouldn't have existed before Brexit.
A couple of the comments seem to agree with me. One twerp though claimed that one of the reasons he voted for Brexit was because EU laws were making it more difficult to keep classic cars. I'd like to ask him to name one law that the EU actually forced on us but it looks like he deleted it when he found out that nobody was agreeing with him.
Ed, the purchaser of said vehicle, is an experienced mechanic working in a classic car restoration shop so will have little worries about getting the car fit to use as his daily driver. He also has the confidence to convert it to right-hand-drive.
Which brings me to my most favourite comment, from @GrandadTinkerer, which has nothing to do with Brexit,
"Many years ago, my friend was asked to convert a mini from right-hand drive, to left-hand drive, as it was going to be used in France. Pretty easy job he thought. No changes to the dash, just new pedal box and 'flip' the steering to the other side. Conversion completed, he set off down the road and was immediately terrified as the car turned left, when he steered right!
He had failed to realise that by 'flipping' the steering rack, the pinion was now on the bottom, and effectively reversed the steering action!"
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