Vince Green

Thats what France did in WW2. After all the loss of life and economic damage resulting from WW1, General Petain (a hero of the First World War) rolled over and capitulated with the Nazis to avoid a repeat.

I take it you have never tried booking a range using the NRA online range booking system. Or tried to phone them?

But also make the process a complete waste of time from the point of view of weeding out people who are needing to be weeded out. Self declaration is fraught with risks. My mother just filled out the form and sent it off every three years even though she should have given up years before. In the end we intervened

Clearly there was a lack of due dilligance. Apparently she turned up and took at least two of the tests in her own BMW. Don't the examiners check that the person who is supposed to be taking the test is a named driver on the insurance? That would have thrown up that something was wrong? Slack administration and lack of proper checks

Well done to Chris and the others who organised it and took part It was all live ammo and they had to put a lot of their own money up to fund it

They should take a UK test after six months but nobody seems to check up. My late Mum's carer was over here for years driving on her Hungarian licence. If she went home, which she did several times a year by easyjet , the clock restarts when they arrive back here

I agree, the woman who wrote off my mums car had a Turkish licence She gave her details to police at the scene but my mother's insurance company was never able to trace her subsequently. Too many people living off the radar and getting away with it More or less the same in some States in America especially the more rural ones

My friend that I used to work with was a Kenyan Asian, He used to joke about having never taken a driving test in his life. In Kenya you just filled out a form and paid about a fiver and they gave you your licence there on the spot. When he arrived in UK having been kicked out of Kenya by the ruling party in 1968 the British Govt just took his Kenyan licence and issued him with a British one in its place.

Imposter mum who made thousands taking 150 driving tests jailed | ITV News Wales this caught my eye because my friend was a Road Safety Officer in NW london . He's now retired but he used to go on about driving licence fraud being rife twenty years ago. It was a touchy subject he used to say. Apparently, nothing has changed He always used to say candidates should be photographed and fingerprinted

Labour has always been the pretend party Pretending to care but they really don't Pretending to know the answers but they SOOOO don't Trying to hide the fact that most of their parliamentary members have absolutely no skills or abilities to bring to the table Having to bluster through the fact that most of the time they haven't got a clue whats going on

The trouble in Cornwall is there are hundreds (thousands? ) of "illegal" AirBnBs putting people into spare bedrooms , attics and even garden sheds with no form of regulation or control , Why they get away with it is apathy

Let me give you an example of what I know is going on down here. The house next door to my mate Pete is a six bedroom house on the edge of St Austell. It was bought by a couple from the London area (by their accent) we don't know much about them. They set to immediately converting it into four self contained holiday flatlets and an owners flat. Pete says they did it without planning permission. Now Pete is a retired chartered surveyor so he does know a fair bit about planning permission. And Fire regulations He says they would have had to have fireproofed the floor space and installed fire doors and escapes and alarms if they had done it properly, but he doesn't think any of this has happened Now from Easter to October they appear to be fully booked via AirBnB and it must be bringing in well over £100 grand a year. maybe a lot more than that because they do long term winter lets as well. During the height of the covid epidemic when Cornwall was effectively closed to visitors they had all thier flats full with people trying to escape the pandemic. totally illegal Nice work if you can get it. Does the taxman know? I have no idea Its a common story down here. Too common the and it infuriates the locals

Try going to America. My OH and my stepdaughter took well over 2 hours to clear immigration. Both frequent travellers. Before the days of EU membership we used to walk through Spanish immigration and they never even checked you. Show the outside of your passport and walk in. If they are making it so hard now its sour grapes, But who wants to go to Spain anyway?

Down here in Cornwall the fishermen and the farmers are incandecant wondering why brexit is taking so long to get started. There are still Spanish fishing trawlers illegally fishing in the waters off our coast, As Malcolm (the only Cornish fisherman I know) says. If he can go out and catch his quota in half a day and then has to return. How come that Spanish boat has been chugging up and down for four days? theoretically that Spanish boat and he have the same quota so it cant be legit?

Excuse me, but yes it is, thats EXACTLY what democracy is about. Definitively

Food banks are not means tested. When my ex wife worked at one as a volunteer people were turning up in late model 4x4s wearing designer labels and arguing about what they were being given Yes I'm sure there are genuinely needy people but in this country we seem incapable of telling the difference between the needy and the greedy

I agree there is such a contrast and I know exactly what you mean

Yes but nurses and doctors can earn a lot of money if they know how to work the system. The hospitals are constantly so short of staff that the are forced to offer big bribes to get shifts covered. Now nobody volunteers for overtime until there is a bonus payment being offered. Its a tough job though, staff shortages also means corners have to be cut and nurses are having to routinely make decisions that should be made by a doctor, but a doctor is not available

Exactly the problem, when do they say enough

This is a recurring theme in Cornwall too, if you leave school at 16 with few or no qualifications you are absolutely doomed. There are no job prospects of any value for you anymore. Education and proper qualifications are now the only route out of rural poverty for most people. Unless you can kick a ball extremely well or sing your way onto X Factor. But with rural poverty (or perhaps because of it) there seems to be total apathy. The parents don't encourage the kids to make the effort.

People have second homes for more than one reason. Its not all about a weekend retreat for the wealthy. Because of the collapse in many sectors of the job market many people are investing their redundancy money or their nest eggs in holiday lets to provide themselves with an income. A lot of that going on in Cornwall because you cant earn any money by potting in in the bank.

Its complex because most of the holiday parks and hotels are owned by companies that are not based in Cornwall. In some cases not even based in the UK. Same with the BnBs and the now much discussed "dodgy" AirBnBs. All owned by what the Cornish regard as outsiders. So very little of the wealth created by the tourists is retained. Yes the locals can get seasonal work but until Brexit they were competing with the flood of Eastern European labour that was frankly a better prospect for the hotels and holiday parks. Willing to get up at 5am, work 7 days a week till 10pm, and then go home at the end of the season with what (to them) is an absolute fortune. Unlike the Cornish who don't want a seasonal job because it will screw up their benefits and they will be working for no more money than they were getting anyway by doing nothing. In some cases actually less money, and I can see their point Farming is in a bad way so few jobs there, the EU destroyed the fishing industry

But if you are a legit person running a legit clay club. Honest as the day is long, never had a problem with the police and they say to you that anyone who shoots without a SGC is in unlawful possession and they are going to come down and nick them and nick you. what are you going to do? it seems to revolve around the fact that only the land OWNER has the right to sanction non licenced shooters on his land. I don't know about the ins and outs of this legislation, perhaps somebody more knowledgable could comment??

We have the same gripe repeated over and over in Cornwall. Always blaming the holiday home owners, with some justification I agree. They are however still happy to take the tourist's money from them. But the real problem for the youngsters is the lack of proper jobs. Seasonal minimum pay jobs wont get you a mortgage or pay the rent all year round. The fact that I am living in somewhere you couldn't afford anyway is not my fault The problem in Cornwall is all the hundreds of "unregistered" and unregulated AirBnB holiday lets that are charging up to £1000 a week for shoddy accomodation despite not having proper safety certificates for fire risks, Gas, electrical etc and presumably not telling the tax man either

Flip it and make it your principle residence, and your present residence your holiday home