We have some friends in the Indian community in NW London. Mercedes is definitely the vehicle of choice for demonstrating financial success in that group.

Moggy

Indeed, a Nigerian friend of ours has three !!. Two saloons and a 4 x 4.

Why should the demise of the Tax Disc, create a demand for payments ?

Unless it means more people are now paying online, causing a crash.
Personally, I’ve been paying online for a few years now.

……….Speaking as a near life long atheist some of my greatest pleasures in life are to be found amongst the wealth of music, art, literature and architecture inspired and created by believers.

Although, saying that (and I don’t know if this has been posted before), many famous people are (or were) declared Atheists.

Van Gogh, Monet etc.

http://www.celebatheists.com/wiki/Main_Page

Polling results extrapolated to general elections are notoriously inaccurate.

Yes, that has been proved time and time again.
There’s no doubt though, that both Labour and Conservative have been put on the back foot, as regards UKIP.
It’s not so much that people want to see UKIP in power (which is extremely unlikely to happen), it’s just as someone said on
the TV the other day, “I’m sick of the Eton/Harrow fraternity, running the country for their own benefit”

As I said before, the government and the BBC will be pulling out all the stops between now and next May, to rubbish
UKIP in every conceivable way.
This week’s Panorama programme was a pretty clumsy and obvious attempt at doing just that.

They still fail to appreciate that the general public are quite capable of making up their own minds.

Didn’t realize he was still alive .

Just to add.

From our experience this year, it’s worth taking out insurance for your feline friend. People will say don’t bother, but ours
has cost just over £3,000 in vets fees this year.

The signature those of us who signed under intelligence and telecommunications criteria decades ago was long ago irrelevant.

Not if you talked to the person I mentioned in my original post. 🙂