Vince Green

Apparently it is so easy to do on some cars that it can be done in a few minutes. Simply by plugged in a laptop with the appropriate software and over writing the existing milage with a lower figure. The question is why the manufacturers don't make the milage field impossible to overwrite? The answer allegedly is because they use the facility to wipe out delivery milage and demo milage. I don't know how true that is?

I have been reading on a motor trades forum that the practice of clocking the milage on cars is much more common that previously thought. part of the problem is that the plug in software to do it is so readily available. the other side of the problem is that so many makes of car allow the milage to be altered by this software without any sort of security firewall to prevent tampering. Once a car is three years old it goes into the MOT database and milage is recorded. So tampering with the milage after this point becomes difficult. However, three years is also the usual lease period so many cars are leased out from new for three years with a contract milage of 30,000 miles. They highlight the "amazing coincidence " that so many of these cars are returned with milage just under 30,000 miles . Read into that what you will.

I have been reading on a motor trades forum that the practice of clocking the milage on cars is much more common that previously thought. part of the problem is that the plug in software to do it is so readily available. the other side of the problem is that so many makes of car allow the milage to be altered by this software without any sort of security firewall to prevent tampering. Once a car is three years old it goes into the MOT database and milage is recorded. So tampering with the milage after this point becomes difficult. However, three years is also the usual lease period so many cars are leased out from new for three years with a contract milage of 30,000 miles. They highlight the "amazing coincidence " that so many of these cars are returned with milage just under 30,000 miles . Read into that what you will.

When you have nothing to say you need to do something

My friend Warren drank a bottle of Whisky a day for more than 40 years. During some of that time he was an Army Officer and I'm given to believe that level of drinking was far from unusual. The root cause of his drinking was his service, I am sure but he never really told his story For 20 or so years after leaving the army, because of his service, he had a personal weapon permit and carried a 9mm Browning every day of his life in a shoulder holster. Then one day, he got a message to say his permit had been revoked and could he bring his pistol in to St John's Wood baracks He was a mess by then. I'm sure his military career ruined his life but we never knew the background . Toward the end he talked of many things that I would not willingly repeat . Some are quite shocking

They are not mayors they are stooges.

I would put forward the suggestion that a disproportionatly high number of councils are run by the Lib Dems. Just under a quarter of all councils are run by the lib dems. However, they still have a big minority on many other councils even though they dont have overall control. They, and not the Conservatives, are the party of opposition on many, even most , Labour councils. So it's a good way of freezing out the Lib Dems and neutralising their political influence. Not very sophisticated but she is not very sophisticated is she? Another step on the road to Soviet style labour control.

Police officers have to be impartial and the bar is set very high. There are very full and robust complaints procedures. Now this story has come to light he will be asked to account for his actions. You can be sure it won't be an easy interview.

This ^^^^ Deportations reach a 'record high' means nothing when the previous figure was so low it didn't even register

I don't accept that it's anything to do with Brexit. How can it be? There is no connection. Except obliquely that France won't stop the boats because it wants to punish us for escaping. So, if you are saying that we shouldn't have voted for Brexit because France would behave badly. I would say it just shows that we were right to leave, and good riddance.

I would take you to task on the EU migrants coming from countries with similar living standards. Does Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lithuania etc have similar living standards? I don't think so. And as for the net migration figures pre Brexit. You can't make comparisons because the ONS didn't have a clue who was here, who had gone home and when. That was a fundamental part of the problem. It wasn't just free movement it was totally unregulated and largely undocumented.

That's not true at all. Real job applicants from the EU can still get jobs in this country. All we have stopped were the chancers that we never wanted or needed in the first place but had no mechanism to keep them out. Now we need to work on keeping out the the third world chancers that we equally don't want or need. We have to have a needs based policy for inward migration including an exit clause when they cease to be useful.

In reality it seems pretty random, I have bought stuff and not been charged. Other times I have been charged more than I should but you cant appeal. The import clerk 'assesses' what they think it should be

The single market was always an illusion. Most of the countries in the EU were /are effectively bankrupt and haven't got any money to buy anything off us even if they had wanted to. And most didn't want to anyway because we don't produce anything they need

The critical thing is how they picked the people that they asked. All polls are loaded in favour of the point they want to emerge.