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I ordered a pack of 10 for 10 Downing Street. "brexit isn't a game. Back the fuck off"

I just need a sticker which says "smile, I have dual dashcams"

That wasn't the "get 4 wheels" response I was expecting (y) (lol)

Problem solved. (y)

There's a reason for that. Driving to close to a cyclist with everyone moving, potholes, winds etc, can result in the cyclist being physically injured or killed by being passed at 25mph or above, and that's before you take into account the effect the passing car has on the wind, which can pull a cyclist off their line, and into the path of the car behind. And the difference in relative speeds doesn't matter much when the ground is always doing 0. In these scenarios, the cyclist knows what's ahead of them, and judging risks to themselves and others. When going past a slowly moving car, the cyclist is still judging risks, and the biggest risk, the car, is traveling slowly, and the most likely outome is still the cyclist being injured. It's like standing at a train station between the yellow line and the track when the train is passing, and when it's nearly stationary. And this is recognised in official guidance for cycle lanes; they should be 2 meters wide on a road where traffic is moving freely, and can drop to 1.2 m wide near traffic lights : I seem to recall it is defined in Department for transport technical note ltn 02/08

It isn’t for people who are out of work!! You have to work to be able to claim working tax credits!!

Thank you for posting this, I have a disabled child and work part time so this is well worth doing for me :)

Great for those who fit the very limited criteria, not good for anybody else who is on a low income. Should be called Tax Credits saving scheme, not low income.

One thing to note: if you are no longer eligible for the tax credits in the future, you can still continue paying in to any existing scheme right up to the end of the four-year term.

This looks like an incredibly narrow re-hashed version of a Lifetime-ISA (LISA) savings account. In contrast LISA's give a bonus of 25% of everything you save and can be used to help get a house deposit - however that account needs to be started before people are 50 years of age I think. Correction - lisa start age is 18 - 39, so before 40 years of age and its possible to pay in till age 50 I think.

If both Parents are employed you can apply for childcare vouchers now, you don’t have to wait till your child starts nursery, just speak to yours and your partners employers to join the scheme. Vouchers give you more money than TFC (only a bit) and you can use them to pay for after & before school clubs whereas TFC stops the moment they leave nursery for school.... another sneaky cost cut by the conservatives (annoyed)

I’m not sure if you are having a dig at the original post or the comment on it from grex9101. But if it’s the former, just letting you know you can get help through tax free childcare scheme so long as neither you or your partner earn over £100,000 per year.

Under labour everyone got 15 hours free childcare 52 weeks a year for children over the age of 2. The conservatives scrapped this and parents got nothing for years until they offered 30 hours childcare for 3 years however this is only term time which amounts to just 38 weeks and it only starts from the term after their 3rd birthday so if you toddler turns 3 mid September you’ll have to wait till the next term to qualify so you get even less. The reality is this, it costs £775 for my 1 year old to stay in nursery 5 days a week and with the 30 hours discount it costs £467 for my 3 year old. We also get 20% off the total thanks to the TFC scheme so the total bill is £993 a month. My wife earns minimum wage which is about £1130 a month so she makes just £130 a month, she also doesn’t get sick pay. For these reasons she’s not going back to work. Fortunately I can support my family as I earn plenty however I’ve no idea how 2 adults on a low wage can survive. We live in an incredibly expensive country and those who complain about spongers need to get a calculator out and stop reading the “headline”.

I was reading it then thinking, we work full time so i bet it wont apply to us (mad)

The cut of date is in October but most employers have a cut off date of about 1 month in advance, depending on payroll date. Mine had it for first week of September as it takes some time to contact the relevant provider. My OH was on maternity leave when the deadline was back in April and her employer offered to pay £1 a month until she joined payroll again so she could join the scheme. I think the old scheme is better but it depends on the circumstances of each family.

MOT testers don't remove anything from your car, certainly not wheels. They don't even remove kids car seats, that's why if you have a kids seat in they will do an advisory saying they couldn't check the seat belt. They should only be checking the things they can see.

You can check the MOT of any car via Alexa / Echo.

BTW I know this website from around 2 years , what is new here?

someone must drive loads on reverse gear ;-)

I use the Knowyourcar app. Similar thing.

I couldn't agree more. A few years ago I also had cancer (unrelated) and had to wind down my small business and go onto ESA. I was grateful for the money but appalled at the pettiness of the benefits system. Especially the 0845 numbers and being on hold for hours. How humiliating to wait while your precious money was being swallowed by the system that was supposed to support.

I ran a successful company and was a high rate tax payer until I had a bout of illness which meant I couldn't work for a bit. This meant I learnt the wonders of going on the benefits system. What an awful experience. I don't think people know that most people aren't good for nothings ,who are scrounging on the state. That's a small minority that the media helps gain publicity and the gullible lap it up. This is the cause of Brexit and other forms of xenophobia.

My child has cancer which has massive financial implications for us. She spent nearly a year in hospital or in isolation at home and will finish chemo in another year. Whose poor decision was that, hers or ours? Your comments are appalling and deliberately callous. I hope you never have to eat your words through bitter experience

I agree, to please this lot, the government has made claiming benefits so difficult and stressful, it's profoundly more stressful than any job I've had. And yes I have worked most of my life and sometimes worked 90 hours a week, without having any benefits or tax credits at all during that time. Then I had an illness and couldn't work for a while. The benefits experience still affects me even now, what a shuddering thought.

If our employment rate was much higher, then there's a good chance you'd be poorer, if you're interested why, read about full employment (usually leads to inflation); unemployment is necessary for a healthy economy. Either way, most people are dumb enough to be spoon-fed this idea that "benefits scroungers" are gobbling up their taxes and they need to be spanked into work. The reality is these are low/no-income people scraping by, labeled and basically lower class people in a society that wants to believe we're better than we were a hundred years ago. If you've ever been a benefits claimant you'll realise it can sometimes be higher-stress than actual work since you're usually phoning people, filling out applications and strung up from no sense of getting anywhere; doubly scrutinized by the benefits office to keep up the pace and usually treated unfairly (huge cuts to that basic salary for any failures). Available work is scarce and usually pretty awful minimum wage jobs which become eye-brow raising when you start them. Many claimants just become sick, anxious and depressed - vulnerable and not taken all that seriously, just seen as "work shy" or "not bothered". Once you get onto the housing side of things for low/no income things are considerably much darker. Have you ever stayed in a hostel? It's not much fun.

Oooh, I have my first stalker.

Amazing

IT DOESN'T HAVE INSURANCE, YOU DO ! How many times does it need saying ;) Yes, I agree that once the insured driver leaves the vehicle on public property it IS illegal.... but the theory started about driving to an MOT station, so that wouldn't happen.

I use my car to drive my family about. Knowing it is safe ranks highly on my list. Once had an MOT tester charged by VOSA for passing my car, when it had a blatant failure. This was done at KwikFit. If your car is borderline enough to fail/maybe pass. Then I’d suggest better maintenance and care of the vehicle.

Apparently Lambeth council in London gives £40 voucher to buy those nappies. No starter pack.

They gonna send me some that have been previously used? :o

What has a trainee Consultant Psychiatrist got to do with this? None of those were big words, they are normal every day words that can even be used by children. If your wife is really of that profession I would imagine (and hope) she told you not to be so silly. If your child was sick would you buy a new machine? And most modern machines have a 90 degree cycle (I think all but just in case the trainee consultant psychiatrist gets consulted i’ll cover myself with most) and this would be perfectly adequate for keeping a machine hygienic so no one would ever need to buy a second washing machine to was nappies. It is an utterly ridiculous argument.

Disposable liners are made of paper, less substantial than the "quadruple quilted" stuff people with sensitive holes buy. We tested them to be sure (Victorian sewers) and if you leave them in water for 24hrs they have practically disintegrated. They are, by definition, less than paper thin.

You probably need to get a new washing machine if yours isn't capable of cleaning dirty nappies, because it isn't getting the rest of your clothes clean either. The reason why (clean) people use biological detergents is because there is all sorts of sweat, urine and poo on adults clothes as well. If a washing machine can get c.diff poo out of hospital bed sheets I'm sure it is also capable of getting baby poo out of a nappy.

https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/34799645 Didn't get it the first time, but this time I did!

time someone did Uranus joke.

Why don't you surprise me? ;)

This telescope uses a mirror and you should be able to see Uranus with it

It’s okay. :D Hope it helped.

I know someone would say that. :D but yeah it’s good if you need a refresher.

I’m not too sure but they sell books digitally that cost so thought this was good for free which is why I shared it.

Also useful to current drivers, there are far too many out there who have 'been driving for years' but have no idea how to drive

It’s okay. :)

Most breakdown companies send this as standard don’t they anyway? My last company did and the one I am with now does also (nerd)

Try using a different browser as chrome didnt work for me

Page doesn't seem to be going to the next page after I enter car Reg. It goes back to start! Anyone else having the same problem?

There is an app from https://know-yourcar.co.uk/ on Android (and probably iOS) - it's really good, I use that to check my MOT and TAX and INSURANCE. I added my Dad's car too and was able to remind them when their items were due. The best bit - I could see when my dad's car passed or failed MOT, with the failure, I could see WHY it failed. This is fantastic if you're buying a used car and want MOT history for free!

This is a great way of keeping track of all the family vehicles 🚗

That's an odd argument. By the same premise it could be argued that you're to some extent responsible if you don't use the monitoring service! Both arguments are of little vailidity though.

I’ve had the alert on 2 of 5 properties I’m currently signed up to have monitored. Of course it is your responsibility to act on the notification and contact Land Registry or whoever has made the enquiry and triggered the notification to be sent, to ascertain the exact reason Land Registry has been contacted if the alert is unexpected. Not sure the word ‘liable’ is correct more ‘diligent’ as it’s up to you how you interpret the seriousness of the notification and action it

What happens though if for whatever reason you don’t get the alert or you missed it ( social media swamps people with alerts of all kinds) your’re on holiday it’s Friday night... things do go wrong, surely, you are liable to some extent by electing to monitor the property.

It’s not just your home you can have alerts for, you can choose any property. For example, if an elderly neighbour went into a home and the house stood empty, then that would be a prime property to use in a fraud.

As @Newbold has reiterated above, homeowners are just as vulnerable as landlords, if anything more so as the ‘it will never happen to me/my property’ attitude is far more appealing to a fraudster than using a property known to be let and knowing that any diligent landlord would be signed up to such a service. The other good reason to put an alert on your property is that if you ever sell it you are notified that a search has been done by the new mortgage company which is useful to know in the progression of a sale.

Knew someone self employed that bought machinery £30k to keep tax down, and qualify tax credits and as result which was well planned and at suggestion of his accountant he got £4k tax credit. This is quite common in farming circles. Bring your income by carefully planning £16k if you rented and not owned a house get housing benefit and council tax benefit also!

Register both for gov gateway accounts then see if you are eligible. 10 minutes to find out.

I assume as couple only one account can be opened only not two?

Seems like a great scheme for those eligible. Gets my heat!

£50 per month does not equate to over a grand in a year.

For the most part yes. However this card gives you access to online discounts also (typically the employee portal) and veterans don't usually have their military ID.

I know, disappointing isn't it. I wasn't particularly hungry that day ;(

Who spends 80 quid at yo sushi?

If you show your Military ID card you get the same discount? Heat added but something to be aware of.