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Ian Rawlings <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2006-11-15, Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Out of curiosity what are the large number of older vehicles that fall into
> > no band whatsoever supposed to pay, can we go in for free?
>
> Don't push that point or they'll ban them from the roads!
>
That will probably be the next move - there was talk about a scheme
being introduced (copying another country - Sweden?) where older
cars get banned from the roads, but you'd get a whole £500 towards
your new one (that's new new, NOT s/h new). Needless to say I mailed
Vine to ask where the other £24,500 was comming from, and pointing
out that it was just another tax, as the goverment would get a lot
more in VAT than the £500 for a sale that would never normally
have taken place (not that it would, I couldn't afford 20 quid,
never mind that lot, so I'd have been out of work and house bound,
which I also pointed out).
Strangely, the question(s) was never asked of the prat suggesting it.
> In the movies, when you drive such a vehicle into range, the central
> computer would start saying "Does not compute!" and burst into flames,
> causing the cameras to erupt in a shower of sparks, freeing the
> population from their oppressors to the swelling strings of a
> background orchestra.
So that's what happened when I tried to register the
BrandNewLeopardSkinPillboxHat as being "Leopard Skin" for
colour!
>
> Why don't you drive it in there and see? Take a video camera with you.
>
Who wants to go to London anyway? An excellent place to be comming
from, in my book..... unless you're going to Stoke.
Richard
--
www.beamends-lrspares.co.uk [email protected]
www.radioparadise.com - Good Music, No Vine
Lib Dems - Townies keeping comedy alive
Ian Rawlings <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2006-11-15, Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Out of curiosity what are the large number of older vehicles that fall into
> > no band whatsoever supposed to pay, can we go in for free?
>
> Don't push that point or they'll ban them from the roads!
>
That will probably be the next move - there was talk about a scheme
being introduced (copying another country - Sweden?) where older
cars get banned from the roads, but you'd get a whole £500 towards
your new one (that's new new, NOT s/h new). Needless to say I mailed
Vine to ask where the other £24,500 was comming from, and pointing
out that it was just another tax, as the goverment would get a lot
more in VAT than the £500 for a sale that would never normally
have taken place (not that it would, I couldn't afford 20 quid,
never mind that lot, so I'd have been out of work and house bound,
which I also pointed out).
Strangely, the question(s) was never asked of the prat suggesting it.
> In the movies, when you drive such a vehicle into range, the central
> computer would start saying "Does not compute!" and burst into flames,
> causing the cameras to erupt in a shower of sparks, freeing the
> population from their oppressors to the swelling strings of a
> background orchestra.
So that's what happened when I tried to register the
BrandNewLeopardSkinPillboxHat as being "Leopard Skin" for
colour!
>
> Why don't you drive it in there and see? Take a video camera with you.
>
Who wants to go to London anyway? An excellent place to be comming
from, in my book..... unless you're going to Stoke.
Richard
--
www.beamends-lrspares.co.uk [email protected]
www.radioparadise.com - Good Music, No Vine
Lib Dems - Townies keeping comedy alive