And all this dual tolls may take people off main roads for a while but would choke the whole B road network up, and what happens where there is no B road to your destination? It’s a farce, if they spent the tax revenue generated by car tax in the first place on the network we wouldn’t be having this conversation…

Want to generate extra billions to spend on the road network…. Simple, scrap car tax, put it on fuel, you would save billions by simply laying off all of the staff involved and shutting down the DVLA car taxation offices. Car tax fraud would dissapear over night and you would pay for the usage of the network, do 5,000 miles and you would pay less than those doing 50,000.. As for road haulage, simply have them registered and claim a rebate based on vehicle mileage at the end of the year etc… This country is paying out for more and more damn civil servants, these new police overseers as far as I can see are just adding another layer that we have to pay for.

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I grew up in Elvington, and the activity at the Airfield was always viewed as an integral, and proud part of life.

Unfortunately, a tiny minority of residents who have moved in near the airfield (most living in houses constructed within the last 20 years) have taken exception to it.

The council should be sued for granting planning permission so close to an active airfield in the first place.

It’s a win win situation for a particular party though. A certain local who profits from the airfield as it is, and is looking to reclaim the runway materials should things go bad.

fighters – Europe (minus France as not involved in 2 premier European fighter programmes, Eurofighter and Gripen, and Russians ahead of French)
bombers – Russia
trasnports – Russia
missile – depends – Europe AA
avionics & radar – Europe
light helicopters – Europe
asw helicopters – Europe
heavy utiility helicopters – Russia
attack helicopters – Russia
trainers – UK
airliners – Europe

Nah!! a De Lorean, then you could go back to the future, and it ran on rubbish food etc, just think of the petrol you would save;)

Jim.
Lincoln .7

Actually, the ‘MR FUSION’ only replaced the plutonium reactor. The petrol engine was still required to reach 88mph, hence the train ride in Back to the future 3.

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I’d much rather my money went to the crown than the politicians.

Governments of all colours know the consequences of leaving the EU so don’t want it to happen.
Sadly the real issues involving Europe will be ignored and it will become a bun fight about straight bananas, “being ruled from Brussels”, and “foreigners” anyway.

You should only be allowed to vote on EU memebership if you can prove you have read and understood all of the Treaties of the European Union. Your vote will then be based on an intelligent choice and not based on the Daily Mail or Express.

Not being part of the largest trading bloc on our doorstep would be foolish in the extreme. On a day to day basis those of us in industry see huge advantages in homogenized regulatory bodies rather than each country having their own.

Why should your opinion be more valid than someone else’s, just because you’re “in industry”. The reasons for leaving are not purely economic, and nor should they be. people from all walks of life, with all levels of education should be free to decide.

What’s wrong with objecting to being ruled by Europe? Surely not wanting our day to day lives being dictated by Foreign nations is common sense? That doesn’t make me racist.

If being part of the EU trading block means us having to sacrifice our way of life, including our free market instincts, then the EU be damned.

We should be looking to form closer alliances to our natural partner nations, our family if you will, the Anglosphere and the Commonwealth nations. Groups of nations with similar values to ourselves.

I can’t see the NHS surviving IMO. Medicine and treatments are getting more expensive, staff expect annual pay rises, far too top heavy (management wages).

As our population ages (which it is on average), the burden will become far greater. We risk burdening future generations with unsolvable debt, better to face the hardship now.