Mungler

Fair do’s. I’ve not had a sniff of a problem with mine and I’ve thrashed the life out of it too 😆 On the snow it is quite amazing - the electric gizmos take over. On the first day of snow / ice I took the wife’s X3 into work. Next day I took the iPace. No contest for which was better in the snow. Back on reliability. That’s a red line for me. As soon as a car becomes unreliable it’s gone. Friend of a friend got the Porsche electric thingy - said it was like no other driving experience, but the thing kept packing up and locking him out etc and so it went back. He said it was the both the best car and the worst car he’s ever had. He’s sworn to get one again in the years to come once the gremlins have been ironed out.

I, like most, business lease my EV. Massive tax efficiencies right there along with no ulez and no congestion charges. I’ve had mine over a year now, it will go back in 2 years time and I am certain that I will then get whatever next generation EV is on offer. So, I don’t have shares in Tesla (I’ve the ipace not a Tesla) and I don’t even ‘own’ an EV (I throw the keys of mine back in 2 years time), and yet there are those who have never been in an EV let alone drive an EV who refuse to entertain that there is any merit to an EV. Interesting 🤔 That made me spit my tea out 😆

Thank you Gordon.

You seen the books being balanced in Scotland? 😆😆😆😆 Ah man, that’s the funniest thing I’ve read this week. Seriously, you not seen the total budgetary mess Scotland is in? Sturgeon gone before Spring. £50 bet right there. Yes, let’s follow Scotland’s lead 😆😆😆 .

There are some fundamental basics. There’s no advanced theory at GCSE. Just how stuff works and has to be paid for would be a good a start as any.

I have said for years that GCSE economics should be taught as a mandatory alongside maths and English. If only people better understood the economy, tax, government borrowing / expenditure etc we would be one step nearer to a sensible conversation and not in the cycle of emotive political showboating and chicanery.

Oh dear Lord you all so want to over complicate this. Ive never run out of petrol, diesel or electric - I’m sure plenty do. I’m also sure that on a day to day basis more people put petrol into a diesel car (and vice versa) than run out of electric. Long journeys in an EV are entirely permissible with a minimal amount of planning. My brother drove his EV from Essex to Devon (where the hotel in Sidmouth had a charger in the hotel car park). None of this is rocket science. My daily commute is 10 miles each way. I often have to drive to Kent and Felixstowe and don’t think twice about taking the EV. We did a family holiday 2 years ago in the new forest. Even though the cottage we stayed at had a dedicated charger point, we decided to take the wife’s car. Again, I repeat, none of this is rocket science. Talk to any EV driver and they will say the same thing.

My 2 cousins are senior long term NHS nurses (both +25 years in) and they say all of this. Their patch is separate hospitals near Heathrow and Gatwick. I always thought it was a Farage bit of blarny that people turned up off planes and presented needing tens of thousands of pounds of medical care. Not so. It’s real and it’s true. They are grafters but they speak of an NHS crippled by unionistas, long term sickys and agency worker general malaise. It really is a dedicated 20% that does 80% of the graft, and even these lot have now had enough. It needs tearing to the ground and starting again and if only because we can’t afford it.

Horses for courses. As for green credentials, I care not. Seriously, ask anyone who actually has an EV what they make of it before believing anything else. I’ve had mine over a year now and wouldn’t go back to petrol / diesel.

I’ve been out every day in my EV. The electric drive control in snow and ice is off the chart. The wife has a petrol 4x4 and the EV knocks spots off it in the ice and snow. Ask anyone who actually has an EV what they make of them and ignore everyone else.

It all needs a re think and the Commons majority needed the Conservatives have just squandered. The NHS is a gigantic leaking bucket of epic proportions - nearly 2 million people employed, £160,000,000,000 each and every year without fail and demanding more and more money year on year and it’s failing and falling over? How? We should all be living to 200 years of age and with immediate access to healthcare. We need an NHS for sure but when did the government ever spend money in budget, in time or wisely? Interestingly, we are now comparatively taxed higher than most Scandinavian countries and the electorate won’t go for increasing taxes to pour more money into the leaking NHS bucket. Alas no one appreciates or values something they perceive as free - the contents of every A&E department at the weekend tells us that. If anyone wants to know how to fix the NHS, ask the 20% of nurses and front line workers who do 80% of all the work. Put a suggestions box in every hospital, ignore any suggestion from anyone who took more than 5 working days sick in that year and make publishing the results compulsory. And, this is a real job advert posted today. .

I did. It turns out it’s functioning perfectly properly and as expected. In all seriousness, how are we supposed to get all lathered up about an apparent threat which by any measure and any metric isn’t an actual threat? Want to talk about threat? We have tube and bus bombings, a concert bombing, a beheading, various knife and vehicle rampages in London, then the failed airport / maternity ward bombing. Well, that’s the list I just thought of whilst sitting down in the ‘small room’. Then if you want to talk about other threats, what about the vastly under reported grooming and rape gangs? Now then Henry, the floor is yours to set forth about this right wing terror threat. We’re all eager to learn and know more. .

That’s all very interesting but let’s have a check of the reality and the extremist score sheet / body count. Let’s then work backwards to ascertain where the threat to life through acts of terror ‘actually’ exists. I’m not sticking up for the right wing loons - they’re loons for sure, but seriously, they’re not moving the needle on my acme terror threat o-meter despite what the liberal media will have us believe.

A lot of these foiled ‘right wing terror plots’ involve arresting young white males each on the spectrum and who have done something in their bedrooms like try and hack a government network or download the anarchists cook book off the internet. There’s an ideological score sheet to consider; in the uk alone, on one side we’ve got blown up tube trains, buses, an Ariana Grande concert, a beheaded fusilier etc. Then we have the ideological far left and if we’re adding up their damage we need to factor in probably a billion pounds of grid locking London, May Day riots, crippled road network infrastructure, strikes etc. And yet we’re under extreme the threat of the far right. Really?

We see that a lot too, however, it’s far far rarer in the non-white demographic. Note the cleaning out is in the majority consensual in any event ‘they might as well have it rather than the government, because when I’m gone they would be getting it anyway’. With most immigrants those that arrive first tend to group and stick together in family units and then have large families and breed the support structures they need. That’s not me going all UKIP but me reaching back to Geography lessons at school 😆 That’ll do it. .

The answer is: 1. if your mum is compos mentis / has all her own marbles, then she can do whatever she likes with her money, but 2. If the old girl is looking to clean herself out in anticipation of care home fees coming over the horizon then those transactions are highly likely to be attacked and reversed. 3. You are where a million people find themselves and unless the old girl sensibly cleaned herself out of assets years and years ago (over 7 years ago is a good start) then no chance 4. My experience is that Indians, Jewish people and people with strong family ties will happily move money generationally to meet a legal test of being dispossessed of their assets but safe in the knowledge that it if they need the money back, then whatever they need will be made available to them from within the family.

EVs are perfect for the South East, M25 and city / town living. "Of those surveyed, 75% commute less than 10 miles to work, with 20% commuting between 5 and 10 miles to work each day." In the real world, it means of a two car household there will be one petrol / diesel car and one electric car. My commute to work is 9.7 miles with dual carriageway and lots of traffic lights. I wouldn't change from driving electric now.

Indeed, that is a massive Ponzi scheme where we have to keep adding in more people.

Who sold them those holiday homes?

These country people who sell their houses to city folk for an extortionate amount of money / at a massive turn - where do they move to? mind you, if they all felt that strongly about selling to townies they would all just refuse to sell or they would just sell to other country folk.

Agreed. Everyone needs a reason to get out of bed; the traditional approach is based on an inner desire as before the creation of the welfare state you either worked, starved or went to the poor house, but scroll on to modern day, some people now need some other persuasion or impetus.

I think this is heading to the central issues and that’s upbringing / family, education and opportunity. As a society we now have no concept of shame. You often hear ‘you don’t know me’ or ‘you can’t judge me’ in the context of something shameful happening and the person at the centre of the act decrying that they can do what they like and do as they please. So, as a country we are lucky enough to have state education - I won’t say it’s ‘free’ because nothing is free. If people don’t take advantage of the opportunity to get qualifications, get skilled or get a trade, then who is to blame? The government? I don’t think so. People need to look closer to home and that’s then within their own family structure / parents. If people have no shame in being awful parents or raising their children not to work, to pop out kids they can’t self fund or just with no purpose or direction, then is that down to the government or personal responsibility.

I had this discussion at work. So, the criminals are fleeing, the threat is reducing but the criminals could be in possession of the victims property (what the criminals are fleeing with and the extent of their crimes remains unknown but it is absolutely known that a crime has been committed and criminals have fled the scene). The discussion then turns to insurance, reporting it to the police and so on. So, what about this: https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/23/met-police-say-tough-tactics-have-reduced-violent-moped Police driving into criminals fleeing the scene where the immediate threat to the public has abated. Ah, but they were giving chase to make an arrest following the commission of a criminal offence…. errr just like Adam White did? If anyone says ‘ah but the police must have been specially trained to drive into fleeing motorbikes’ I’ll laugh at you. That is the only ‘difference’ to reach for but it’s no difference and there is no difference.

As they say, you can’t make the poorer richer by making the richer poorer. All this envy and talk of the wealth gap. So what? Tell that to the Ugandan Indians who rocked up with just the shirts on their backs and who kids are all doctors and surgeons. Do we just pick the pockets of the people who took risks, worked hard, made a few quid and held onto it? Thatcher had it right - equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome. At this moment in time, if you come from a deprived background and are bright, you have the best chance of getting into a Russell Group University. Maybe even an unequally higher chance. Some people will get dealt a bum hand - eg death, illness and abandonment and will need a lot of support. Others really do need to grapple with some hard truths. Case in point, one of the scumbags who got knocked off the motorbike was about to be a dad again - didn’t know his other half’s birthday. And who should pay for these feckless dole bludgers and all their children? Ah of course, the people that go to work and work hard? And what about the scum bag and the girl he’s with who’s about to pop out his brat? Advice to her? Keep your legs closed, have some self respect, get a job, keep better company, look at getting a skill or a qualification etc?

But the people I know who wear masks would dearly love a world where everyone had to wear masks, and where nightclubs were shut down and people were all made to be equally as miserable as they 😆