I think they need a party behind them, tbh. 11 independents will never keep their seats.

As I only learnt today that in by-elections etc you vote for the individual, not the party they are a member of, if their constituents like them they may well retain their seats.

but I also think we need to uphold some sort of common sense

Something that the world lacks…

So you vote for a person as MP rather than a member of a political party? That seems rather screwed up and allows the situation described above, was not aware of this as I have always voted for the party rather than an individual, my future votes will now be cast differently and I suspect I am not the only one that was mistaken.

Vettel is already 2 seconds faster than the fastest day one time from last year’s first test.

There was snow on the ground at the first day of testing last year, conditions can make a big difference to the lap times.

If you go to KSC you will see plenty of gators driving out there

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Buy Carp Arts dot co dot uk are always cheaper than euro carp arts and more reliable. I no longer use euro carp arts as their service is abysmal since they relocated

Thanks all.

Shares fell 30%

timbog160 – couldn’t possibly say re JLR…
The rest makes perfect sense, another example being developing a vehicle exclusively for China and then the bottom falls out the chinese market?

Pension is, apparently, separate pot so hopefully not!!

Got Alice in Chains booked for May in brum, Black Grape (supported by The Rotanas) at Cardiff Tramshed next month.
The Rotanas Feb 22nd in Cardiff.

Quiet year for me so far, was looking forward to doing a Festival this summer but the lineups are, frankly, shocking for the cost of the ticket prices!!

Wouldn’t recommend Maxxis unless you are a low mileage user as they only seem to last about 8,000 miles on my son’s car, great grip but wear is excessive. Avon’s are a very underrated tyre in my opinion.

Surely the spoiler on a 3 series GT ia a toy and doesn’t serve any useful purpose?

They do actually serve a purpose above a certain speed and the handling is affected if not deployed above a certain speed

I saw a documentary last year showing that government spending on homelessness had halved over a period of years and during the same period homelessness had doubled!!
As the OP noticed, I regularly visit Cardiff and am amazed by the amount of people sleeping rough there, I do not know what the solution is, because as mentioned previously, there are so many different factors involved.
We donate to Crisis to help in some way and also buy warm food and or drinks for some when we are out. I feel for these poor buggers whatever their situation is, especially the youngsters who are similar age to my kids.

Last year in the snow, eco mode and TC off gave me all the grip I needed with 265 rears, 245 fronts and xdrive, coupled to in excess of 500Nm of torque driving was a doddle, then just switch to sport mode for fun :)

I am dismayed by the inability of this country to cope with a little snow. The one that made me laugh was it was too dangerous for the kids to go home from that college in bodmin but the asda delivery driver managed to deliver supplies to them to make their overnight stay more pleasant!!!

No need to bring race or colour in to this

My wife had a no fault full recovery last year, no claims protected, her insurance renewal £20 cheaper than last year, having her as a named driver on our kids policies has still worked in their favour at renewal time ie cheaper with mom as named driver even after claim rather than without.

Post Office insurance for my car came through with the line ‘this is our lowest possible price’ written on it. I found the same level of cover cheaper elsewhere and rang to cancel, they then offered to see what they could do, I then explained that I could not trust a company that lied and the guy on the phone actually apologised and said he would escalate this. Don’t know if he did but I have never gone back to them for insurance since.

Pretty much any song live is better than the studio version as long as the artist is half decent, the rawness and limited production influences just add to the experience. Live music rules.

I’m glad it wasn’t just me disappointed in Bird Box’s ending

You, me and others

Piston rewind tools are amazing, once you use one you wonder why you ever faffed about without one.

I agree until you try to use one on an Alfa as they have a LH thread on one of the rear calipers!!!

My son’s car replacement key and fob is £180+VAT from a dealer, Timpsons offer the same for £150

Welcome to the Monkey House

LR put all their eggs into the diesel basket and are now suffering – only 3% of their sales are petrol engines. They spent zero on researching hybrid technology AFAIA and so will now have to buy that technology in.

Jaguar have a very successful electric vehicle, the I-Pace so this will help LR with electrification. Range Rover Sport is available as a hybrid and the recently released new Evoque also has hybrid derivatives so that may help them. The demonisation of diesel certainly wont help them although their engines AFAIK have not suffered any ‘cheating’ issues as others have.

St. Jeans de Mont area of the vendee, beautiful coast, great weather, not too far driving from ferry, my kids loved it round there when they were young

avdave2 and kimbers: fair points and I agree with both, just vented a little frustration in the way some ‘generalize’ things

The way we have pictures of cancer on fag packets should we have pictures of dibetics with amputated limbs on every box of Mr Kipling cherry Bakewells?

No, because a lot of us ‘diabetics’ are Type 1 which has **** all to do with diet, is not self inflicted and winds me up no end when the media and some individuals lump type 1 and 2 into the same bracket.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAxo3sw4O08

Went a couple of months ago, pre-booked colosseum and vatican museum via citywonders.com, really good service and bypassing the queue at vatican was a godsend, queue was at least 1/2mile long, the guided tour helped as the guide very knowledgeable.

I went from Sky to NowTV and am now back at Sky, didn’t like the NowTV menu system, no free TV as aerial signal is woeful so had to rely on iplayer etc, also had multiple issues with pixelation, sound dropping, inability to pause and resume programmes so overall was disappointed, had my broadband with NowTV too so expected the streaming interface to work perfectly but no such luck, surprising really as never had an issue streaming 4k netflix content, only HD NowTV.

Binned it halfway through the first episode, can’t deal with subtitles which is a shame as I really enjoyed Narcos

Do winter tyres still allow you to ‘have fun’ in the snow or do they prevent sideways motion?

petec – is your little car registered as a 4 seater (see V5)? Alfa Mito’s only have 2 rear belts and are registered as 4 seaters, therefore vehicle only insured to carry 4 persons.

Have heard a few songs but feel that they would become boring after 3 or 4 songs as they are all a bit samey, still very funny as one offs occasionally though

This is absolutely awful, no means no, whatever you are wearing and even if that is wearing nothing at all, the defence and the jury should be taken to task over this.

OP, wonder if I followed you into work today, car reg D8 MTB :D

Cooking a savoury mince in the pressure cooker day after boxing day, the safety valve let go and covered the ceiling of the kitchen with savoury mince, took an awful long time to clean up lol

I have emailed them a list of cars and apparently the average value of 3495, 3875 and 3795 is 2840!!! They are not willing to budge but this is via a Total Loss Settlement Negotiator from the repairers. He has said to discuss with insurance directly. Courtesy car is from the repairers, they have been told to collect the car from us but have not yet made contact, the repairers are aware of this and we are still waiting. The thing that bothers me most is should I have a total loss with my house, the insurance rebuilds so I get the same as I had, car insurance should be the same in my view eg I have written a car of certain make, model, spec and age off, it should be replaced with the same make, model, spec and age.

Spectators behind safety nets, players drop a shot if their ball hits the net, no injuries and still a penalty for a poor shot

I have nothing more to add and applaud all the comments so far