9 replies to this topic

[pyrotrev]

Well I will be and it'll be to LEAVE as it would largely rid us of the EU pyrotechnics directive and give UK firework manufacture half a chance: currently the cost of CE marking is out of all proportion to any revenue that might be gained from selling what will necessarily be a small volume specialist product. Remain and the jobs will be permanently exported to China.

[starseeker]

I am very much a euro sceptic,but the closer it gets ,the harder the decision ,not easy at all 

[dave]

its a no brainer to me.....OUT !

 
 

[spectrum]

I am encouraged by the posts in this thread. I agree with the comments made entirely but as they're now counting the votes it's a done deal.

 

I have to say I view the administration of Europe as a gravy train for parasitic bureaucrats, like much of the civil service that feeds alongside and out of the same trough. If we remain - it seems that this will be the result - I predict that what's left of the "industry" will be 70% gone within 24 months.

 

The irony then is that the industry that feeds the regulatory machine will no longer be there for them to feed off and they will follow suit. Not soon enough I say.

 

I have had the best of the industry and could cry at the injustice served on the talent in this country that will never have the same opportunity I and my predecessors had . It stinks, it condemns the most innovative nation on the planet to the doldrums and is precisely the opposite of what "Great" Britain was all about. 

[Rip Rap]

Nice surprise for you this morning then spectrum!

[dave]

Dave do you think I the vote will be rigged by dodgy Dave?

it seems dodgy dave is on his way ken

 

..............to be replaced by dodgy......someone else

[spectrum]

Nice surprise for you this morning then spectrum!

 

I started to suspect the inevitable shortly after completing my last post and kept checking throughout the night. It was looking grim up to that point. Not sure if it's a nice surprise or even anything to celebrate, I'm nervous for the future and very much doubt that Cameron's successor will make any significant change that might benefit any of us that much or turn our manufacturing industries in this country around, pyro or otherwise. 

 

Still, it's far from heartbreaking to see the gravy train derailed for the privileged few.

[Mortartube]

You state the cost of CE marking in your first post. You will still need it if you intend to export to Europe. England is a relatively small market (I say England as Scotland and Northern Ireland may not stay within the UK in the long run)

[Malcolm Smith]

Brexit will not stop progress towards CE and I doubt that anyone will succeed in getting any pressure to revert to any part of previous legislation.

 

This would require law changes and, for our specialist market, the politicians will not be at all interested.

[digger]

Brexit will not stop progress towards CE and I doubt that anyone will succeed in getting any pressure to revert to any part of previous legislation.

 

This would require law changes and, for our specialist market, the politicians will not be at all interested.

 

I agree.

 

I work around the world, and there are three standards that we generally work to, ANSI (US), EN (EU) (BSI long since merged with EN), and Chinese prescriptive rules. On other continents / countries they either pick US or EU standards or the option of either.

 

So I guess we will still conform to the EU rules on goods even for the home market, as BSI is pretty much dead from a point of making unique standards for the UK only.

 

I don't see much real change from us voting to leave the EU, even the ECHR is not affected by Brexit (but could be with an act of parliament).

 

Let's wait and see if the xenophobic vote get what they thought they would, although I would not bank on it.

 

The only difference for me is that I am considering applying for an Irish passport so that I don't have to wait in the non EU ques at airports as I do about 80 flights a year at the moment, of which about 60% are in the EU.