Drift Alert ….
Tears of Joy from labour Neil A, list that lot of vehicles and no sympathy will be shown !
Piquet, love your bamboo i3, is it as good to own and drive as it looks? It might fit my small drive so tempted.
Taxes only ever go one way, or new ones invented.
Trying to remember what democracy is. Isn’t the government supposed to ‘work’ for us. Sadly it knows better than us ……what is in our best interest.
The thing that has peed me off to the point of total frustration is why we’re those scroats that killed the 2 police officers out amongst the general public.
My wife for the first time in a long time expressed virtually no sympathy or compassion about their deaths. ‘Low level’ ? If you had a friend or relative killed by a e scooter driver, chipped to do 30, illegal on the road, kill them, how would you feel about the rules we make and never enforce?
Let’s hope we stay healthy enough to pay our taxes . MM
The i3 is a relatively recent acquisition purchased in May. Its a 2022 with 28k miles for a not unreasonable £11.5k. It very much does the job we got it for. It does all the local errand trips. It is very nimble, Outrageously rapid if you want it to be. Consummately simple to get in and drive. Very roomy for a compact car. Still looks good inside and out to my eye. And promises to be very very economical to run. There is only one flaw that must be mentioned - and that is the quite harsh ride quality. But hey one of our other cars is a Morgan......!
As for the general gripes here about tax take, as a retiree and one of the gilded "baby boomer" generation I will not join the general complaints, and I say this as one who pays tax at 45% - (although I do complain about the ridiculous anomaly that results in an effective tax rate of 60% on income between £100k and £125k caused by the loss of personal allowance).
Frankly our generation has little to complain about and much to redress when we look at the heritage we pass to our children - after being governed by mostly CONSERVATIVE governments throughout my lifetime - everyone it seems wants to cast aspersions about Rachel Reeves and Labour who inherited our post brexit, post Conservative mess.
My retirement income is made up from several final salary occupational pension schemes - of a type and scale of benefit generally no longer available to subsequent generations. These pensions are supplemented by draw down from a SIPP where my contributions earned generous tax relief, so I can hardly complain that I am then taxed only on the income withdrawn, and not on the capital gains made within the funds.
Tax I am afraid is the cost of a civilised functioning society, and with an ageing population profile, more of the burden probably need to be directed towards us oldies who clog up the NHS and sit comfortably with out over inflated housing equity, whilst enjoying frivolous retro styled sports cars!
