Carburettor choke return spring - wanted

[marshman]

^^^ What he said.

The EU and UK government just need to put all their "agendas" to the side and get the mess sorted. I can order stuff direct from a company in China, (as I did with a few £k's worth of storage batteries late last year), and get it sent DDP (Delivery and Duty Paid) and it turns up on my doorstep via DPD (other carriers are available), no hassle, no extra paper work, no hassle with duty, VAT, fees, nothing extra to pay - its all built in the price. This is also available for goods sent between the EU and UK and potentially has been since July 21st 2021. BUT it hasn't been well publicized, I suspect because the systems are still being setup, it is up to the seller to offer it to their customers. Carriers are now starting to advertise it more and I suspect in the future it will become common place and we will get back to a sensible trading pattern. Having said that as far as I can see it is no different to sending and receiving stuff from the USA which has been a PITA for years.

[dasadrew]

....The EU and UK government just need to put all their "agendas" to the side and get the mess sorted......

I feel that any urgency of the 27 EU countries with their 450 Millionen population to "get the mess sorted" with UK will decline over time, rather than become a matter of urgency, and the drive to have a bonfire of EU regs will more likely lead to a diminishment of joint UK-EU trade anyway.

Still, the current UK economic woes would apparently have been far worse if the UK had continued to pay £350,000.000 per week to the EU, so import taxes are probably a very small price to pay to have that extra wealth on board. Just imagine the state the NHS would have been in if that money wasn't being used to its advantage.

[marshman]

Can't argue with that really other than as we all know the £350k per week never really existed and the problem with the NHS is not all about money, its more about poor management and inefficiency. The UK "economic woes" are overblown by the media, just like they manage to exaggerate everything. No mention of the price of petrol coming down by 22% since July 2022 - now around £1.50 per litre. And before people start screaming - yes but it went up a lot, back in March 2012 ( over 10 years ago) it was £1.38 per litre, less than 10% increase in nearly 11 years! - figures taken from ONS data here:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/timeseries/czmk/mm23

Poetic license fully used in cherry picking statistics to make a point - and why not everyone else does it

Mind you all of this has little to with choke springs - an issue which has been happily sorted at no cost

[dasadrew]

as you say!

Diesel is really cheap here now too - even though yesterday the ban on oil products from Russia came into force!

[marshman]

as you say!

Diesel is really cheap here now too - even though yesterday the ban on oil products from Russia came into force!

Ah, didn't want to mention Diesel, that hasn't come down so much

[dasadrew]

Ah, didn't want to mention Diesel, that hasn't come down so much

At some pumps the Super-plus (5 star?) which goes in the Aston is now cheaper than diesel!