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  1. It was the manner of what happened. It was an industry that needed reform, but the way it was done was contrived to extract a crushing victory, enabled by an egotistical NUM leadership that didn’t spot coal reserves being built up in preparation, didn’t go for a proper ballot of members, and began a coal strike in Spring and through the summer. An ugly trap was set and the idiot jumped on it.
  2. It was a bit of an eye opener for me, a bit of a coming of age, seeing what the police were capable of given half a chance. Groups of police from out of area basically wandering around looking for trouble. I was stopped any number of times and prevented from getting home. I was searched for no reason. Stopped and questioned for having left the house. I saw cars damaged and then people booked for having broken lights. I saw collection buckets kicked down the street by police walking past peaceful fundraisers. It was a police state for a while and the police loved it. The tories don’t like being called scum.
  3. From the planning portal:
  4. Are there any real world examples of Boeing actually hiring inferior pilots?
  5. Do you know the height dimension of the shed? 2.5m is fairly tall for a shed. For info., you can erect a fence on your boundary without permission that is 2.0m tall, so if the shed was 2.0m or less then it wouldn’t be an issue. If it’s taller than that, then unfortunately it might be down to local quirks in planning and if you’re on a relatively new estate you might even need permission from the original builder. Easiest route, is to know how big a shed it is, work out how much it would stick above the garden wall, if it’s more than 2.0metres tall and could be seen by the neighbour, just knock on their door, say hi, and tell them your plan. If you go on the planning portal, it should ask you to put your post code in and direct you to your local planners advice page. But there is info down the planning page I’ve linked that might be sufficient for you.
  6. Gutted. I had Chelsea, Man Utd, and Davankov on an accumulator.
  7. I thought the original post was about the campaign letting down or puncturing tyres on bigger cars. That campaign, or certainly the europe wide version of it that has been going a while, is not solely about carbon emissions. It embraces the whole problem with bloated cars in an urban environment, sharing streets with much smaller and softer users. But it’s easier to just write it off as not thought through, or jealousy, or not considering whether someone has photo voltaics on their roof as a trade off for dominating the streets. But it’s not like I’m their spokesperson, it might just be they don’t like G Wagons but would be ok with a similar sized Fiat, as some on here believe.
  8. The Karman Line is generally accepted as the boundary. 100km above sea level.
  9. I’m not sure its me that’s been triggered. But I’m happy for you to read Skoda Kodiaq wherever I’ve written Bentley Bentayga. If we don’t want to see or hear the counter argument to big butch cars, I’ll drop out.
  10. Oh I’m sure in some cases it does. But come on, look around you, the majority are pointlessly large expressions of a lifestyle choice. Like buying a car that can do 160mph in a town with an average speed of 23mph. I’d suggest the majority of F Pace purchases are not out of necessity. My job has involved driving 20,000 miles a year. I’ve got family, I go on holiday, I’ve taken the kids on camping holidays. I’ve moved students across the country and organised house clearances. All that usual stuff. I’ve survived without a Defender.
  11. We need a stat here, the number killed or injured by oversized overpowered cars in the urban environment, against the number of people killed or injured by not being able to use their X5. I’m not really advocating any sort of violence or vandalism here. I’m more about trying to work out the psychology of justifying to yourself a Land Cruiser in Swindon.
  12. It’s the whole thing, the size of cars is being Americanised when there is no need. Car parking spaces are having to be redefined because of the race to be bigger, higher, wider, more of a ‘presence’ on the road. What then happens, is the guy with the Range Rover of the Mitsubishi then realises that parking on the road he might get a scratch because his car is so bloated. Not a problem, I’ll park half of it up on the pavement. We’re buying cars that are too big for the urban environment. Whatever you want to call them, sUV, 4x4, the point is they are too big and too aggressive. You just don’t need a Macan to drop Timmy off at school or get two kids to Burger King.
  13. it’s a twitter account I have a look at every now and again
  14. It would be interesting to know the stats for Royal Mail losing post and delivering it inexplicably late, versus the number of fake voters that were turning up at polling stations. The mail around here is in a state of collapse, we’ll get nothing for 4 or 5 days and then we’ll get a bunch of mail delivered and a few of them won’t even be for this address.
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