Mungler

Are you are suggesting that anyone who does anything wrong or heinous must have a medical condition? That’s a massive pass right there. What if someone knew what they were doing, planned it and were really intent on doing it? What if it was in their culture or belief system?

Well, if there were warnings then it’s not exactly out of the blue. We’ll see what gets filtered out in the media over the coming days, but the speed at which the German authorities are however apparently able to place the unnamed suspect into a ‘far right’ category is interesting to say the least.

Quite. One man’s mental instability is another’s ideology. Ah the battle of the sky fairies. Amazed that the reports are now coming in that he was an AFD party supporter. They can’t release his name, but they can release how they think he voted. No doubt they were also mentally unstable…

Nice work sir.

No one should be discussing gaps in bollards - that’s an extension of victim blaming and is a distraction.

I got this in group text: ‘be honest though, it doesn't seem like Christmas without a bunch of people being flattened in a German market by someone of a particular religious persuasion’ it struck a chord because a couple of people from work went to the Bruge Xmas market 2 weeks ago and I did actually think ‘I hope they’ll be alright and don’t get mown down by the next loon in a truck.. ‘. And it’s now where we sort of expect it and just hold our breath for the next one.

It’s an interesting one. Bloke down the road from me has a newish Ferrari - he got it last year and I’ll reckon he’ll move it on by end of 2026 at the latest. It’s under a cover for 10 months of a year and in summer gets driven at weekends only because he commutes by train to London during the week. Factor in 2 weeks family summer holiday, that car can only get used on maybe 20 days in any year, maximum. On the maths with insurance, repairs, storage costs etc they are nothing but a pretty money pit. Also factor in, when we were 17 we were in a circle of lads, all driving, all young and always out. Where are you going to drive to and who are you going to drive with in your 50’s? What Ferrari / Harley ownership actually is and what it looks like in your mind are two very different things. Following on, people tend to have these cars for a year a go before they wake up - meaning a 5 year old Ferrari can have 5+ owners. Change in ownership, car location and servicing garage are all windows of opportunity to monkey with the mileage. Factor in that there are key mileage markers with these cars where the engine needs a rebuild or it’s time for belts and a clutch - all £10k min a pop, that’s when the clocks get wound back and the car moved on. I learnt my lesson with Harley ownership - being overtaken by a lorry in the pouring rain on the A130 and it was ‘what the f am I doing on this piece of garbage?’. And it was gone within the week. Ive always fancied a Ferrari for the noise and the trouser twitch but my inner accountant has always stopped me in the nick of time.

Couldn’t agree more. I think we’re all feeling that we’re at the end of our political rope and sick of career politicians and institutionalised civil servants.

Most car mileages end up anchored to annual MoTs but also computer servicing records particularly held at main dealers for the period to the 1st MoT. If you buy a new car you are sucked into the main dealer history for the first 3 years come what may. I am also aware that within cars there are other mileage recording mechanisms. I have seen a few instances involving Ferraris and Lambos where mileages are often tricked to retain value and warranty cover. Turns out, in most hypercars there’s a form of distance recording in the gearbox and elsewhere in the car’s infrastructure. The nirvana on a second hand car buying is one owner and full service history, and you buy the seller not the car ie rock up to Mr & Mrs retired in their £1m house with a gravel drive and Bob’s your uncle. The last car I bought (an i3) was a few weeks ago and off a nice 4’ 10” Jewish lady in her 80’s - the car came with a full set of orthopaedic cushions and 3 different types of charging cable (each at a couple of hundred quid a go). Do I think she raced it or clocked it? No. And if she was in the trade, the cushions and cables would have gone along with anything else not bolted down that could be ebayed. But if you look at buying an A8, S class, E class, Toyota Prius, Ionic etc off a certain type from a certain post code then I’d lay money that the car is chauffeured / mini cabbed, that the mileage has had a haircut and the history stamped up from a dealer stamp bought off eBay 😆 Indeed, I wouldn’t even bother looking at any car being sold with an 0208 phone number attached to it.

I think Labour just recognise that anyone over 60 is less likely to vote for them and will be dead sooner i.e. no future memory of mistreatment under labour. Pretty ruthless and cynical. That has to be the only reason to cut the pensioner heating allowance and screw over the WASPI pensioners. I still can’t get my head round that and sending £500m to Ukrainian farmers and £50m to the new Syrian regime. Well, it’s Labour - never been good with the economy or tax payer money. And with that I still blame the conservatives for putting the country in this position.

Inflation up : check All we need is interest rates to go up and I get to call ‘house’ having predicted flatlining economy, record low business confidence, worst Xmas on record, economy in recession (I thought end of Q1 next year but we’ve already entered technical recession) and now increase in inflation. If we get a jump in unemployment we’re in real trouble. And we’re not even a year in.

Labour know they will get hammered at the local elections, and I mean wiped out / not a seat as everyone issues a protest vote for the lib dens and reform. Change is coming over the horizon one way or another. Incidentally, there is something I really don’t like about Ed Davey - he is a pantomime clown who will stop at nothing to get on the telly.

Leaving aside a cheap shot at Rachel from accounts because there is ample time for that in the coming years… If you are a committed lefty come socialist then ‘numbers’ in the context of running a business and ‘money’ will be lost on you because, as above (1) chances are you have never owned or run your own business for profit (a glimpse into the current cabinet confirms this 100%) and (2) the capitalist use and operation of money will be lost on you because you do not view money (or capital infrastructure) in the context of delivering value, profit and a return for the business owner / shareholders - if you are an ideologically driven socialist you will consider that society should own and control the means of production and the idea of a return to shareholders in the form of unearned income will be abhorrent. The richest countries are based on capitalism and the poorest socialism. Perhaps I should have clarified terrible with money or numbers in the context of money. I am not suggesting that committed lefties can never pass a maths A level.

Not at all. Classic capitalism vs socialism. Most people who run businesses and who strive to earn money and who take on all that entails are unsurprisingly the least keen on giving it away or watching it get spaffed up a wall. If I listed out the last few hundred business owners I’ve interacted with, I’d struggle to find one who was a socialist. Indeed, I’ve had another think and still can’t think of one. Unsurprisingly I can’t think of one that would vote for supertax labour.

But nonetheless entirely accurate, which makes your reply particularly poignant.