Yet Another Brexit Benefit To Bite Brits On The ***

[Hymie]

If you want to hire a car from a French supermarket (which is quite common, like hiring a van from Costco here in the UK), you are now going to need an International Driving Permit (IDP).

 

Although this is not likely to affect many UK visitors to France, ex-pats (sorry, immigrants) living in France will need one – only available from your local Post Office in the UK.

 

This has already led to many immigrants being refused a hire car from a supermarket in France.

Halleluiah, praise the Lord.

 

[davebro3]

My heart bleeds for them! (not)

[naomi24]

Hymie, you're sounding pathetic now.

[calmck]

Surely immigrants living in France should have a French driving licence

[ToraToraTora]

So why would they want to reduce their potential customer base?

[Togo]

It is even harder to buy sausages from Avis as well. Oh dear. 🤣

[Peter Pedant]

you are now going to need an International Driving Permit (IDP).

in fairness to the Brexiteers on AB - they knew that five years ago

Brexit meant Brexit ( I have a blue passport you know !) and screw the cost to BOTH sides  - such is the benefit from being ruled by the Great and Good we have.

[Peter Pedant]

So why would they want to reduce their potential customer base?

because they were so thick they didnt ask where the money wd come from after Brexit

FACT: Cornwall ( ou cornouailles) had the greatest grant from the EU and voted to leave. Mr average thick from Bude was asked where his money would come from afterwards and said

London of course !

 

[Old_Geezer]

Of course, from the money not sent to the EU in the first place. 

[gulliver1]

Come on TTT have you lost it...You are supposed to say "We didn't need an International Driving Permit to drive the Tanks and APCs when "We"Liberated France during WW2 .Where are you TTT ???.

[newmodarmy]

I can hear a barrel being scraped here.

I wonder if PTBD is a recognised disorder and  GPs can arrange counselling.

[webbo3]

PP @17:33

\\

FACT: Cornwall ( ou cornouailles) had the greatest grant from the EU and voted to leave. Mr average thick from Bude was asked where his money would come from afterwards and said

London of course !//

Like it always did. we sent money to the EU and they some of it back and told us what to do with it

[retrocop]

I often,years ago,popped along to the AA office in Leicester Square to get a IDP. It was no big drama when I wished to drive my car in Europe.Before I met my wife,after she left school she went to Spain to work in a hotel in Ibethia.She worked on the travel bureau and her visa stated she was an interpreter.She had no problem applying for her visa,as a seventeen year old and was able to speak fluent Spanish as she still does.

Apparently there are some still English brain dead thickos who are unable to apply for a IDP or a Work visa. They are easy enough to obtain Hymie,even for a schoolgirl.

 

[retrocop]

Incidentally Hymie,

Do you speak fluently any European foreign languages? My wife and I do. Do you as a matter of interest do you?

[barry1010]

Wouldn't British folk in France for whatever reason simply drive their own car or hire one from somewhere other than Carrefour?

[New Judge]

What's the problem? People affected by this can either:

1. Get themselves a French driving licence (probably recommened if they're living in France).

2. Get an IDP when they're next in the UK.

3. Go to a provider who behaves sensibly when hiring cars to people.

I don't know why it takes eight and a half minutes from the bloke in the cheesecutter to whinge and whine about it. (Sorry I've just noticed only half of that was his whinging - the rest was about making bird boxes).

I must admire you for seemingly spending all your time digging up this dross. We're no longer in the EU, but despite that there is an agreement between the UK and EU members that an IDP is not required when driving in the EU (I seem to recall seeing it in the withdrawal agreement).

If some individual companies want to lmit their customer base by imposing additional requirements on their customers that's their privilege (and their potential loss), surely. 

It has occurred to me to wonder how many ex-pats living in France hire a car from Carrefour or Auchan.

[barry1010]

If a supermarket refused to rent me a car that the law states I am entitled to drive I wouldn't be buying my groceries or fuel from that supermarket. 

[Hymie]

Retrocop - I’m not fluent in any European language; based on my GCSE French, I can order food in a French restaurant, but won’t have a clue what the waiter/server said in response.