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General Discussion Area / Re: Bangers and Cash: Restoring Classics
« on: Today at 11:24:03 »
Notice they never attempted the cam belt.
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General Car Chat / Re: EV Drivers
« on: Today at 11:23:02 »I applaud this policy, and I know how to disconnect the odometer on all my cars :-)That will be one of the intricacies of the 3000 page report which will be needed prior to implementation.
The Govt currently raises £25bn per year from petrol and diesel taxes. If (say) 50% of cars are electric or plug in hybrid by 2030 then that's a loss of £12Bn to the treasury. By 2040 it'll be closer to the full £25Bn since the only ones still using dinosaur juice will be those of us still driving classic cars. Something has to be done to plug that gap in funding. We may or may not like whatever they propose, but at least they have realised there is a looming issue, and are thinking about how to deal with it.
An interesting point has been raised on the skiing forums. Dover to the Alps and back is (roughly) 1200 miles, depending on destination. At 3p/mile thats £36. All those miles will show on your odometer, none of them are in the UK, but are you still going to get charged by HMRC?
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General Car Chat / Re: EV Drivers
« on: Yesterday at 20:27:57 »They can monitor "Genuine" mileage through the MOT.They've got until 2028 to figure out a way to ensure honesty doesn't come into it.
Down side means they wont know the details for the 1st 3 years. So they will simply just relay on drivers honestly.
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General Car Chat / Re: EV Drivers
« on: Yesterday at 18:29:18 »I'm pretty sure it won't take them long to figure it out. But it's something that will never affect me.Which means that if it's only £250, then they are still being £350 in pocket compared with ICE drivers,20,000 miles per annum will cost you £600
Who's going to admit to doing 20,000 miles though if it's down to the drivers to estimate their mileage?
The Government will soon discover that most EV's are just runabouts doing two or three thousand miles a year.
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General Car Chat / Re: EV Drivers
« on: Yesterday at 17:31:28 »Which means that if it's only £250, then they are still being £350 in pocket compared with ICE drivers,20,000 miles per annum will cost you £600
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General Discussion Area / Re: BBC bias
« on: Yesterday at 16:14:27 »Ah....yes.....a report by a bunch of woke tossers has said, by rolling her eyes, she was coming across as normal. No good at all if you want to work for the bbcThat was in June.
It's in the news today for some reason.
Perhaps she has been bollo*cked today by the powers that be.
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General Discussion Area / Re: BBC bias
« on: Yesterday at 10:40:29 »And important, current, news stories are pushed back to 1 liners, with their concentration on whatever is happening at Stockport. Don't get me wrong, that was a very sad attack for the local community, but it doesn't need a 10 minute delay update every single day.Stockport? I must have missed that one
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General Discussion Area / Re: Openreach
« on: 05 November 2025, 11:56:06 »
BT are not Openreach, but they do own them
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General Discussion Area / Re: BBC bias
« on: 04 November 2025, 20:53:50 »Or view no news sites, and go about your day in blissful ignorance. Dalby forest was beautiful in its autumn cloak last week, I couldn't have been less bothered about the crap that goes on anywhere else.https://youtu.be/-5kR830B8fg?si=l-P2mtGGSXv0v-s1
Does he have a point?...
I would like to think so, but almost unbelievably, the MSM are obviously trying to keep a lid on this.
Outside of GB News and the Telegraph, it doesnt seem to get a mention.
Its a National scandal thats being ignored, presumably in the hope it will go away.
If the BBC stoop to this, we-can safely assume ALL of the other news channels are doing it, GB news included. My advice is to view an assorted number of News Sites and then draw your own take.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Openreach
« on: 04 November 2025, 18:56:01 »
It's about par for the course, Barry.
I rang BT to tell them that caller ID hadn't been working since I changed to digital voice. It's fair to say that the call handler didn't have a clue what to do, so she raised a job number and said if it wasn't sorted by such a date to ring back. Typical delaying tactic. It wasn't sorted so I went online and found out how to do it myself. Now sorted..... by me, not BT.
I rang BT to tell them that caller ID hadn't been working since I changed to digital voice. It's fair to say that the call handler didn't have a clue what to do, so she raised a job number and said if it wasn't sorted by such a date to ring back. Typical delaying tactic. It wasn't sorted so I went online and found out how to do it myself. Now sorted..... by me, not BT.
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General Discussion Area / Re: BBC bias
« on: 04 November 2025, 06:02:44 ».......almost everybody.....Trouble is, on a certain level, we need it. It's the only broadcaster that's got the reach to get important information out quickly, to almost everybody.
I can honestly say that we haven't watched any BBC channel for well over 25 years, so any announcements would bypass me anyway. I hate, despise the BBC and I'd love to live long enough to see the BBC die a death, but I can't see it happening because our corrupt government will do their utmost to keep them going. I watch very little TV, and when I do it's a film from Netflix or a drama that we binge watch from itvx, but never, ever, ever anything from the BBC. Unfortunately for me, my Mrs watches all of the old stuff from 30 odd years ago, but thankfully never anything on BBC. When a BBC spokesperson was interviewed, he said that if the BBC get cancelled we'd lose shows like Strictly Come Dancing. Is that it, is that their best defence.
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General Discussion Area / Re: BBC bias
« on: 03 November 2025, 22:20:54 »The BBC has been nothing more than a lefty sounding board for decades.Trouble is, on a certain level, we need it. It's the only broadcaster that's got the reach to get important information out quickly, to almost everybody.
If it wasn't so self important it would have been shut down years ago. It certainly wouldn't survive on a commercial level.
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General Discussion Area / Re: BBC bias
« on: 03 November 2025, 20:46:05 »His re election suggests that over half the US voters saw through all the media bias.It's not about Trump, it's about the BBC. His wasn't the only story they totally misreported to suit their own ends. I really don't see why we should have to pay a tax to keep this load of shite in business.
Although this article does nothing but reaffirm the justification his deep distrust of mainstream media outlets.