Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

I have been trying to arrange my car tax online for 3 days to be given the message they don't have record of the cars insurance, which normally takes 24hrs to appear on their register. Funnily/cynically enough, I haven't been given the same message this morning but the disc has cost me more than it would have yesterday.

Getting pretty fed up bending over for the sharks so maybe its time to emmigrate!

Will the last person out, please turn off the lights!

You think there are no sharks in other countries? They are still there but just a different species.

Ahh! but that depends on how you set up your affairs and where you are happy to go to do some shark fishing.

Good luck. I have lived in a few countries and everywhere has its problems. The grass is always greener somewhere else.

rawdm999

Same here.

You obviously haven't seen the message on the DVLA web site, which says

With regards to your query about whether the car insurance renewal information has been freshly posted from your insurance company:

'Do not check this site within 24 hours or you will still get a negative result."

Our vehicle is insured with the Post Office. At renewal time they say, "There is no need for you to do anything. Your policy will be automatically renewed on the policy expiry date and the payment will be taken from "details of bank or card".

So that's nice, isn't it?

Except that this is no use whatsoever to assist you to purchase a Road Tax certificate for the vehicle on the DVLA web site!!!! To do this you have to have the insurance info' sent to the DVLA by your insurance company.

It's all too 'last minute'!!

Aaargh!!

Exec. I tried for 3 days prior to today, each time giving it just over their stated 24hours. Someone's taking the preverbial. Today will have been a nice earner for the sharks.

OH BRITAIN, where did we go wrong ?

We're "broke" and can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,?????????

Are you aware of the following?

The British Government provides the following financial assistance: -

BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER Weekly allowance 100
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS / REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN Weekly allowance 250

BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER Weekly Spouse allowance 25
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS / REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN Weekly Spouse allowance 225

BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER Additional weekly hardship allowance 0;00
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS / REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN Additional weekly hardship allowance 100

BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER TOTAL YEARLY BENEFIT 6,000
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS / REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN TOTAL YEARLY BENEFIT 29,900

Please read all and then forward to all your contacts so that we can lobby for a decent aged pension.

After all, the average pensioner has paid taxes and contributed to the growth of this country for the last 40 to 60 years.

Sad isn't it?

Not sure where we wrong but seems people in Canada and Australia have the same problem with gullibility to misleading emails.

http://www.parliament.uk/briefingpapers/commons/lib/research/briefings/snsp-05621.pdf

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100616115149AA3Uqxh

They say there is a lack of humour in the financial section? But every time my partner looks over my shoulder at my portfolio she comments "Thats a joke" Soooo Cruel !!!

Apparantly 7 million people have not filled in their census forms. Mine went into the bin.

Haystack
I can not understand your pride in ignoring the census form even if u think that it is a waste of time and money.You were asked to give a short period of time to respond to the questions ,(which were not difficult to answer), because it has been proven in the past for the government of this country to have some understanding of the likely population movement of the future is helpful.
You may not agree, but I do hope that they come looking for u and issue a fine for not complying with the request.

Thresh him!!!

I have never filled in a census and I have been around to fill in at least 5. They don't try too hard to get you to fill it in.

"but I do hope that they come looking for u and issue a fine for not complying with the request."

That'll be 5 years worth of fines then now.. On behalf of all tax payers I wish to thank you so much -):

They won't care about the previous ones. In fact they have no way of knowing as the details are not recorded that way. They will just say fill it in and keep coming back. Then they get bored and don't come back. That's the way it always happens. Or you could tell thwem that you have posted it off and they have lost it. They mostly come when I am out anyway.

There may be about 60 million people in the Uk, but there are only about 25 million households. That means that nearly 30% of the households have not filled it in. They stand no chance of getting them filled in.

Yes, I understand that but now that we are "All in this Together" I assumed that you would like to make this voluntary contribution.

Do us Krytonians have to fill in a census?

Why do they have to ask about health problems? The NHS has all that information anyway. Similarly with most of the questions asked.