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I think I have to disagree with all of you. I see it having a massive impact, with the EU and also eventually the UK (once they realise that Trump will never give them free trade) imposing retaliatory tariffs on the US. The US tariffs are on parts as well as cars, as Kezo has already said, so it will cause spikes in prices for most European and US cars. China must be rubbing their hands together and ramping up production of EVs ready to replace all those Teslas!
There’s always 2 ways to look at fraud. Anything less than 1% can easy be seen as negligible. However if your total bill is £60bn per annum, then the 1% is still £600m which isn’t a small sum. Then there’s the small factor that all government departments are required to account for expenditure to the penny, back when I was reconciling the military pay account, there was £250m which had to be fully reconciled to the last penny and any discrepancy had to be identified and a path to rectification agreed within the period it was identified. It was probably the strictest guidelines I’ve worked under but it showed how the accounting at department level was properly managed.
So you’re the one I have to blame for having to pay back that £11 salary overpayment! 🤣🤣
So it appears that tomorrow has become official announcement day, although I can’t see us being too surprised as most of the details seem to have been leaked already.
Just been a report on ITV news following the government proposals having been leaked. PIP to be frozen next year and a further £6 billion of cuts to be made. PIP claim criteria to be made much stricter and other out of work benefits to be linked to much stricter rules on looking for work. No longer speculation. It seems that the Labour government are going where the Conservatives felt was a step too far!
I saw an interview with ‘Rachel from accounts’ (or Rachel from customer services as I more accurately call her) on Sky News yesterday. She specifically highlighted the fact that since the pandemic the number of young people (under 25?) not in employment, education or training, has risen to over 1 million. I am no fan of this disastrous government, but that does need tackling. People of working age should look for reasons why they can work, not reasons why they can’t. IMHO the bar for being able to get benefits does need to be higher, but this will be very difficult now as the flood gates opened a few years ago when qualifying criteria and definitions of what constitutes a ‘disability’ was widened to include things that were previously deemed ‘health conditions’. The unintended consequence of this change is that when hard working tax payers see people with conditions that the majority of people would not consider to be ‘disabilities’ languishing at home on benefits, sympathy levels vanish and that has a negative impact on everyone. The one thing that I wouldn’t agree with would be the freezing of PIP rates, but I doubt that would happen. We are in the run up to a budget and governments of all colours always adopt the same pre-budget approach. They allow discussion documents to be leaked that include things that would be deeply unpopular but have already been discounted. These things cause outrage and grab the headlines, but when the budget is finally announced they don’t happen. However, plenty of other negative things do happen, but rather than generating negative headlines, there is relief that the worst of the proposals didn’t happen, so all the negative stuff slips in under the radar. Call me a cynic, but it’s happened prior to every budget that I can recall over many decades!
I think I agree with just about everything you said there, but unfortunately nowadays anyone speaking common sense seems to get shouted down by a tiny minority that think that if they protest loud enough they will get their own way.
Just been a report on ITV news following the government proposals having been leaked.
PIP to be frozen next year and a further £6 billion of cuts to be made.
PIP claim criteria to be made much stricter and other out of work benefits to be linked to much stricter rules on looking for work.
No longer speculation. It seems that the Labour government are going where the Conservatives felt was a step too far!
EU signs a massive trade deal with 4 South American countries. We could do with a bit of that action. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyv0k88dgjo.amp
The press release is very misleading, as it isn’t actually an agreed and signed trade deal, as that can’t happen until all EU states ratify the agreement and France, Poland, Demark and Portugal all object to the deal, with France in particular determined to veto the deal. With EU farmers already planning mass protests, many other countries will begin to doubt just how good an idea the deal is, but Macron will not want to antagonise the unions in France any more than he already has, so will definitely veto the agreement.
It’s just another example of the EU leadership thinking that they can do exactly what they want, no matter what anyone else might think.
We bought the Ninja 15 in 1 about 14 months ago and whilst I was a little worried that it would become an expensive cupboard ornament, (We paid about £250) I am so glad my wife talked me into it.
We use it for so much, including cooking large joints on the steam roast function for melt in your mouth meat, par boiling roasties on the pressure function for 2 minutes and perfect results, fantastic bread, using both the prove and steam bread functions and amazing crackling covered pork joints using the roast function and temperature probe. It is also brilliant for all of the normal air fried stuff. So quick and so cheap in comparison to the normal oven.
The washing machine is causing a flood whenever we use it. There’s a hole in the seal, I squirted water in it and it came straight out the bottom so I don’t think it’s a drain hole. I’ve watched a few videos online and it looks straightforward. Anyone done this themselves, any tips?
I’ve done a fair few over the years and as long as you have a good clear area to work on and around the machine it is normally pretty straightforward. I have had a couple of retaining springs break on me when doing older machines but I have always had spares on hand so it wasn’t really a problem, but I guess it would delay things if you only had the new rubber when doing the job. The springs that broke on me were very old.
The strip down involves removing the front retaining spring, taking the top off the machine and the control panel before then removing the front to get to the seal and the inner retaining spring. Some people advocate using washing up liquid when fitting the new seal but having tried this once I would never do it again as it makes it almost impossible to hold the seal as you try to work it over the lip and into place on the machine.
My tips would be to keep all the screws in separate little tubs. The ones from water contact areas (inside the powder drawer) are stainless and need to go back there. Make sure you put the seal on the right way up. The drain holes must be at the bottom. Don’t use anything other than water to lubricate the seal, but letting it sit in a bowl of very hot (Not boiling) water does help to fit it more easily. And finally, remember to fit the inner seal spring before re-assembling the machine. (I once did this.)
The EU should have just stayed as a trading block. Once it became a political union too it’s fate was sealed. The countries asking for entry are only doing so because they see endless subsidies and grants available but someone has to pay for it and currently that is Germany and France. The only reason we are constantly being asked back is so that the UK can share the burden. It’s certainly not because they want their buddy back in the club as we all know that most of the EU have a great dislike (I was actually going to put detest) of the UK, as they constantly demonstrate at every turn.
Not only that, but now the US have a different administration we could actually find not being in the EU to our advantage, as Trump certainly isn’t as anti British as Biden was and the EU are not exactly his biggest fans.
The EU is a broken experiment, far too big and unwieldly, rife with corruption, deception and duplicity. It’s only a matter of time before it breaks up so I just can’t see why anyone would want to join, never mind re-join, especially as we would lose any of the concessions we had the first time around.
As I understand it with grants is, you are offered an award amount (£x), along with a catagory (size) of vehicle they are willing to fund and a short list of vehicle’s them deem suitable for your needs. This forms the basis of your needs. You can choose any vehicle in the catorgory you were awarded, which doesn’t need to be on the list up to the value of the award plus 50% from your own funds if needed.
The amount you are able to contribute towards an advance payment is limited to £750 or 50% of the award, whichever is the least.
From Motability Foundation FAQs section:
“The majority of beneficiaries will not choose to make any contribution on top of their Advance Payment grant, however, if you choose to order a vehicle that costs more than the agreed grant award, then we may contact you to better understand your requirements.
If you choose to make a voluntary contribution towards your Advance Payment grant, there are limits within our policy. Grant applicants can add up to £750 or 50% of the Advance Payment grant, whichever is the least.”
Cheers Kezo.
The light started flashing a lot more yesterday when I was doing a few jobs in the garage so I dropped the unit and checked the wiring which all seemed secure, so I took the decision to change it. A quick trip to Screwfix and a 6ft batten now shines brightly in place of the previous disco flasher!Overcast and 18*C what happened to 23*C
25 and sunny here!
The AWD version is priced on KGM website and there is an AWD model on auto trader so I’m assuming you can order it
Nope! I’ve asked two different KGM dealers and have also just been onto the KGM website to check after reading your post. They, and it are still saying summer 2024 for the AWD, which I suppose could be anytime, but I would have thought they would give the dealers a bit of a heads up if it was anytime soon.
Just seen this on a Facebook group, looks like the KGM Torres may be joining for those that have been waiting
Shame that they haven’t released the AWD version in the UK yet as I may well have been interested in the Torres if they had. The motoring mags just keep churning out the same line that ‘it will be here soon’ but won’t give a date.
Regarding Proportional Representation I think Labour and Lib Dems have said yes to it. It’s been long over due in my eyes. As for Reform UK. The only exist to ruin the Tory vote. There after, nothing. Now Farage has joined and become leader as Agent Provocateur.
I’m not sure about others in the Labour Party but Kier Starmer is definitely against Proportional Representation.
Personally, I too am very against the idea as all it does (In my opinion) is result in very messy coalitions that never actually get anything done and who end up blaming each other whenever anything goes badly.
Well done Macca, glad to hear you’ve got your order in. I better get my backside into gear and make a decision myself now.
Very much looking forward to getting acquainted with the Forester tomorrow, and a couple of hours on the road will tell us if it’s right for us 🤞
Hope it goes well Macca!
I keep looking back on my test drive and thinking that nothing else has come anywhere near yet. Decision time very soon.
@Johoe i remember being sixteen and me and my four mates would go into the local pub and get five pints for a pound. If we had two pounds between us we all went home drunk lol.
Sixteen? Surely you mean eighteen? 😂😂😂
Scab just fell off just a tiny bit left am I right in thinking during the miners strike the miners who went to work were called scabs ?
You are indeed, and it is still an issue dividing families until this very day. As Kezo has already said, one for the cupboard under the stairs!
