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General UK politics VII -Return of the Starmer

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welshdean said:
Personal mileage in every co. car I've had (since they started taxing them for the value of car I was allocated) has been included in the tax liability.
Whether that was a company decision or not, idk.
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I think this was the opposite. Claiming for use of one's personal car for (party? Constituency?) business.

I do wonder about their car insurance. Mine wouldn't cover business use beyond commuting.
 
Vixen said:
Exactly. HMRC are very strict about what you can claim on mileage. Our team of reps in the wine trade - some years ago now - had to state their opening odometer reading and closing one. The expense claims on file had to show all of this information. People with company cars had to state what percentage of travel was for personal use, that part not allowable. But there was one little known trick I knew: you could legitimately charge a further 2p per mile for 'wear and tear'. I had a boss who'd demand that VAT be claimed on taxi fares. His reasoning was, if HMRC queried it, he would blame it on my stupidity. In fact, fare fiddling is so common, black cab drivers in London will invariably ask, "How much do you want me to out on this receipt, love?" knowing you are going to be claiming it back.
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Back in The Day my company car had a GPS with the option to note journeys so I dumped the chargeable trips into Excel and submitted it.
Also in The Day the cabbie I used in London simply handed reams of blank receipts.

Then again a colleague had his own receipt printer....
 
jimbob said:
I think this was the opposite. Claiming for use of one's personal car for (party? Constituency?) business.

I do wonder about their car insurance. Mine wouldn't cover business use beyond commuting.
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Adding business usage isn't very expensive, the worst part is the annoyance of working out what you need now most insurance brokers are call centres that won't give any advice.
 
Something of a side topic, but if you're a hiker, camper, survivalist, prepper, ex-Boy Scout etc you may now be in breach of anti-terrorism laws and liable for a fine or imprisonment. As of 1st October last year a number of new substances became illegal to own without a license including hexamine, in any concentration which includes the solid fuel tablets that have been a staple of light weight military issue style camping stoves since WWII. The same law also covers hydrochloric acid above 15%, which is the minimum normal concentration or motor vehicle battery acid.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/licensing-for-home-users-of-explosives-precursors/licensing-for-home-users-of-poisons-and-explosive-precursors#fn:1

This is another law the government has brought in without any apparent effort to make people aware of it, or the fact that they may be breaching it quite innocently. A similar thing happened with the changes to road traffic law giving pedestrians right of way at junctions with a give way but no designated pedestrian crossing, including roundabouts, neither drivers nor pedestrians are properly informed about this.
 
Darat said:
I just realised that Sunak called the election when he did because of the D-Day stuff.
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Perhaps he called it for 4th July in the hope that his popularity would be boosted if England win Euro 2024.

The final is on July 14th.
 
I note Sunak seems to have taken the weekend off again. I don't think these disappearances are to do with strategy discussions, he just thinks he shouldn't have to work Saturday and Sunday.
 
P.J. Denyer said:
Something of a side topic, but if you're a hiker, camper, survivalist, prepper, ex-Boy Scout etc you may now be in breach of anti-terrorism laws and liable for a fine or imprisonment. As of 1st October last year a number of new substances became illegal to own without a license including hexamine, in any concentration which includes the solid fuel tablets that have been a staple of light weight military issue style camping stoves since WWII. The same law also covers hydrochloric acid above 15%, q
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/licensing-for-home-users-of-explosives-precursors/licensing-for-home-users-of-poisons-and-explosive-precursors#fn:1

This is another law the government has brought in without any apparent effort to make people aware of it, or the fact that they may be breaching it quite innocently. A similar thing happened with the changes to road traffic law giving pedestrians right of way at junctions with a give way but no designated pedestrian crossing, including roundabouts, neither drivers nor pedestrians are properly informed about this.
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Battery acid, i.e. lead-acid batteries, is sulphuric not hydrochloric.
 
catsmate said:
Battery acid, i.e. lead-acid batteries, is sulphuric not hydrochloric.
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You're right, and the stupid part is that I knew that, the legislation says Sulphuric and I looked it up to check the concentration in car batteries, then wrote hydrochloric for no apparent reason, possibly because I was reading about someone who uses it for etching. But, my mistake notwithstanding, the legislation does seem to outlaw car batteries as written.
 
Apparently the 'Red Wall' voters are all deserting the Tories for Reform, Labour are losing the north and Reform will win the election.

So I was told in the pub just now.

Plus, Farage is 'smashing it' on Tik-Tok and is winning the youth vote.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Apparently the 'Red Wall' voters are all deserting the Tories for Reform, Labour are losing the north and Reform will win the election.

So I was told in the pub just now.

Plus, Farage is 'smashing it' on Tik-Tok and is winning the youth vote.
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Is this a new definition of "youth" that I'm unaware of?
 
Garrison said:
I note Sunak seems to have taken the weekend off again. I don't think these disappearances are to do with strategy discussions, he just thinks he shouldn't have to work Saturday and Sunday.
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It's astonishing how our culture still has this blindspot. 9 to 5, Monday to Friday is when the establishment works therefore it is when everyone works...
 
I can't understand why everyone isn't going after Farage's plan to introduce a compulsory health insurance system. It's his one real announcement and it would terrify people.
 
Darat said:
It's astonishing how our culture still has this blindspot. 9 to 5, Monday to Friday is when the establishment works therefore it is when everyone works...
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Weekends off work were fought for and won by the workers.

Why should they be given up?
 
Andy_Ross said:
I can't understand why everyone isn't going after Farage's plan to introduce a compulsory health insurance system. It's his one real announcement and it would terrify people.
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Because the media needs to keep him in the game for ratings not realising the monster they risk creating.

Then again the kind of people who vote Reform UK don't consider tiny details like abolishing the NHS, they are focusing on the big picture of stopping foreigners arriving and ideally sending them back.
 
Hugo Rifkind

The core lunacy of Conservative politics right now is that the thing that has killed them is a disastrous Brexit, but because they won't admit Brexit was a disaster they're now being killed again by the guy who a more rational party would be blaming for all of it.
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The Don said:
Because the media needs to keep him in the game for ratings not realising the monster they risk creating.

Then again the kind of people who vote Reform UK don't consider tiny details like abolishing the NHS, they are focusing on the big picture of stopping foreigners arriving and ideally sending them back.
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And a return to the good old days!
 
Garrison said:
I note Sunak seems to have taken the weekend off again. I don't think these disappearances are to do with strategy discussions, he just thinks he shouldn't have to work Saturday and Sunday.
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I think he was actually attending a G7 meeting, so what passes for him fulfilling his duties as the PM
 
David Alan Green

52-48 referendum result:
“this is the Will of the People and we brook no opposition from an elected House of Commons and an independent judiciary”

Losing power in a landslide at a general election:
“we should be concerned at a Super Majority and a one party socialist state”
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