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I’m wondering if premiums have gone up partly because of used car values having increased so much. I got a quote today for my car and it showed the value as over £5,900 when it was worth rather less a few years ago. I can still get comprehensive insurance with £200 excess and protected bonus for under £200 a year.

Now Sunak has done it, only worse now!

Definitely seems that making money from motorists is the only thing the police put their effort into.All about making money with no real investigations required.

Very crafty by the Tories to cut National insurance so that the low paid don’t gain,or pensioners! Only those working and under 66,the bigger earners gaining more of course,typically Tory, the rich get richer. Need thresholds up not National insurance down,so most get a small gain!

Mine was a 26” barrel,bought it in an auction in 1998 for £38.Sold for £80 a few years ago.Didn’t use it much,but being light it did recoil and flip a bit. Solid steel guns from a time of quality manufacturing.

Did you have to have the choke removed before using slugs? My GP had 30+thou of choke and I imagine that’s a bit much,and would upset the accuracy of rifled slugs?

I had one,a 1970 model,and remember I had too pull the lever all the way when screwing on the barrel.Not sure about the loose stock,but maybe a bolt under the butt plate.The empties only eject when the lever is flicked all the way.

I remember him well, I was once at a 100 bird sporting shoot near Norwich,about 1981, watched him shoot a couple of stands in front of me.Wally Sykes was also shooting! Rip Paddy.

I had a 28 inch Miroku 3700 black action,bought new in 1978,cost me £360 then!

1984, was 26,wages were £2.25 an hour basic in a Milk Marketing Board factory.Took home about £65 a week!

Sadly it’s always been that way,all governments count pensions as an income. From 1979 the Tories even started taxing unemployment benefit too, though it was only about £16 a week at the time,with tax at 33% I think!

Over £9,000 better off, about £2500 of the pension goes to tax.

So you can earn £1237 tax free then everything is taxed at 20%. If you earn £25,000 from your job you will pay £4,752 tax,leaving you with a total of £31,733 to live on. You could have deferred your state pension of course, but they only allow you 5.8% extra for every year deferred so you may never get the full amount lost back again. I gave up my work at 63, lived on savings until 66, now getting about £12,500 a year pensions and no tax.

As if young buyers could afford a million pound mansion like that anyway if it was on the market! It’s small cheap houses the young buyers need.

I used to reload the cases over 40 years ago with plaswads and 32 grams, I used Nobel 80 powder,about 21 grains I think,but no idea unfortunately what Winchester actually used.They were a great cartridge,and about £80 a thousand then.

Mine is too! It seems some people get extra due to SERPS possibly.

The 2 inch I remember from the early 70’s, they were 7/8ths Oz I think,about 25 grams load. May not be very rare,but worth probably £20 a box to a collector,same for the Purdey’s I guess.There are collectors for just the boxes too actually!

That’s £1322 above the normal full state pension from April,so guessing you either deferred a couple of years or have some SERPS element included? Still yes it puts you into the tax bracket even without a second pension!

£815.40 each 4 weeks,13 times a year! Older pensioners of about 73+ get the old pension which is rather less of course.

No serps component,it’s just the new full state pension rate for 2023-2024 of £203.85 a week!

Except many people won’t qualify for Universal credit,due to having savings,perhaps an inheritance in later life. Zero U/C if over £16,000.

£203.85 a week times 52 weeks = £10,600./ annum...

They conveniently don’t say if it’s gross or nett income,and the figures don’t make much sense generally.

I wonder if those figures are gross or nett of tax?