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I like the Lib Dems but they seem to be losing sight of their now great position in the political landscape given the extremes of the Labour party and focusing on the European issue. Danger is they do not offer themselves as a viable alternative to Labour if they just keep banging on about Brexit, get their manifesto in order, and they could well be well on the heels of Labour. Tim Fallon is a decent guy as far as I can see, TV debates will give a glimpse of what sort of leader he might be!

In terms of taxation of a total population, so scale decisions, you are looking at NI, Income Tax, VAT and Corporation Tax. Its difficult to make scale decisions on investment without getting monies from those sources, as far as I know.

News bouncing around today about the tories raising income tax/NI/VAT - given they cannot touch corporation tax as leaving Europe makes us less attractive to foreign investment and hiking that up would only make us less so. But they need to make money somehow, looks like the public will need to pay, rather than business. All quite predictable I guess.

Could be, good shout that - although someone has nicked the ones off the other three wheels! Just in the pub at the moment, will get a better pic on the way home!

Maybe needs a bigger pic, it appears to be a spacer type thing, bolted to the outside of the wheel?

Chap parked up outside (yes badly) but what is that attached to the outside of the wheel? Spacer mod gone wrong? It seems to have bolts running through to the hub?

I agree on the politicians salaries, far too low for the responsibility they carry. Sarah Olney who won the Richmond by election is probably on half the salary she was on prior to giving up her job and becoming a politician. She genuinely seems to want to do it to get a voice and do it for the people, albeit she is very inexperienced and not the best public debater! But the political system relies on people giving up bigger salaries to do it for the good of the country etc. Its a no win situation really, the really good economists, business people, financial whizzes are not going to apply for government when private sector gives them better financial (and job!) security.

I don't believe for one second that the PM doesn't okay every single move the chancellor makes, not these days. I guess you are entitled to that opinion, I imagine the PM 'signs off' on things like any MD of a large business would, but like any large business the accountants hold the purse strings and inform the leadership on how money is used.

Why? You'd think that someone who knows how to make money rather than spunk it up the wall would be ideal to be in charge of trillions of pounds. When you consider that Corbyn himself said the other day that he was aiming to help those earning £26K and under, that puts an awful lot of normal people in the category that he wants to hammer... The person living at number 11 is actually in charge of that money not the PM

I would imagine off the line the rev up probably edges it by a nose, in gear and on the move the extra torque edges it for the earlier model? Ultimately on the road, if you were dropped into one of them blindfolded and then drove it (blindfold off!) you wouldn't be able to tell one from the other. Worth noting as well the dyno thread on here, plenty of DEs making more power than the revup simply due to condition. Pretty sure it was something of a roulette what power you got on the car.

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I just tried this out of curiosity. ....came back with exactly the party I intend voting for as the highest %age I think that the political parties could never have been any more apart in what they stand for, clear boundaries between labour tories libs etc. where we might have seen blurring in the past. That website is unnecessarily long in the survey, I am sure if they did some factor analysis on the statements they would realise many have no importance on driving party choice tut tut

Quite possibly the most comprehensive response to a request for help I have ever seen - good on you Sir!

Amazing how many products share the same parts - I watched a video on making K&N air filters the other day (yes was a bit bored but happy to spend the time upskilling on air filter production techniques!) and in the video they get to the part where they assemble them, and lo and behold AEM ones are made in the same factory by the same people using the same parts and put together on the same machine...I wonder how many people argued that AEM are much better than K&N...

I was referring more to macro decision making - local candidates do not control these as much as we like to think so, Richmond voting for Sarah over Zac makes bugger all difference to what airport gets extended, they can both shout about it, they do not make the decisions though.

Good advice from Blocko, obviously consider your needs in buying a car (you don't buy a car you don't want!) but also consider condition as these cars are not cheap to repair and maintain. In terms of the first and second generations so 03-05 and 05-06 although 05-06 had higher BHP as I remember they have lower torque so overall performance is pretty much comparable. So don't expect any noticeable on the road performance difference. I see you have a budget of £7k, I would seriously consider having a slush fund spare in case of repairs. A new OEM clutch and flywheel plus labour will put you back £900+ for instance. So look for something with plenty done to it in terms of perishables but do have something back, you don't want it to be sat outside gathering dust because you don't have cash on hand to sort out any major issue that arises. Good luck with your search, do come on here and ask questions before buying, you will get lots of good advice.

Interestingly this justifies the point - that you could easily do this survey (its just an attitudinal segmentation survey a doddle to create) and come up labour then say 'no way am I voting for Corbyn' - shows how important the leadership and figurehead of any 'proposal' is.

Ha I agree, Event tyres on my Celica were awful. I suspect the number of occasions where having MPSS over Bridges over GY etc would have saved an impact are minute - the number of occasions where someone takes their eyes off the road and does something significant.

For me is nothing to do with the leaders, its the party politics, i havent yet seen a leader who i thought, i just couldnt give my vote to them even though i agree with their policies. Ref a legal requirement to vote, i see both sides, its like on here when someone asks a question, dont ask if you dont like the answer, same goes for politics, if you dont vote, you have no right to moan as you say I guess you can say its not a "fair" representation if "x" number havent voted, but being as they would just spoil their ballot paper anyway if forced, whats the point in making them? Is it not the opposite though? That you believe a leader of a party to actually have the capability to lead and implement what they have planned in their manifesto? If you go to look at a car that on paper sounds great then the owner walks out, makes stuff up about cars that you know is rubbish, gets in and slams the door hard shut, starts the car and guns it down the road without a second to warm up - would that knowledge not make you think twice about what was written on the paper? (ok as best a relevant example as I could think of!) For me I need to buy in to the whole thing, top to bottom. There is absolutely nothing to lose by seeing what these leaders are made of put face to face, there is nothing to lose as a voter looking for a more informed view.

I think the reality is that many people spend £500 on tyres not £800 and its deemed a problem. I would wager you could have had F1 heated pre prepped tyres on that Pug and would have made naff all difference - ultimately its the plonker behind the wheel. Shame common sense can not be purchased as readily as tyres...

But the TV debates are not for answering questions (ironically) its more about how capable these potential leaders look when under the spotlight and comparing across. Then you put this with all the other sources of information you have to make a final call on who to vote for, why exclude it, why not listen and make your own call?

Unfortunately we will never know with Clegg, as he never actually had any power to lead or run anything, the coalition gave the Tories enough seats to take government, the LDs never had enough seats to actually influence the policy making towards their own policies - Clegg was never in charge or running anything it was a Tory manifesto that played out. Corbyn clearly is thick skinned and pretty cut throat as we have seen in terms of binning people off - he seems a tough guy under it all, but comes across as someone so out of touch with the modern world and a lot of people in this country he has become unelectable. Its interesting, but there is a dearth of genuine 'leaders' out there in the political spectrum at the moment.

I might be wrong and happy to be corrected but I think the above comments were more aimed at the idea that if you do not buy premium range topping tyres you are going to die very soon either in a blaze of fire or upside down in a ditch

As Stu says, the TV debates bring a different element to a multi-element reason to voting for a party. Can you vote just by reading the manifesto? Or just by meeting your local Councillor, and so on and so forth? Many people do I know, but in my view that's wrong, what I think is right is getting to see the leader who ultimately ticks or crosses the box on macro decisions on this country perform against their opposite numbers as a leader, not as a script reader - anyone can practice a script long enough to stand up and read a statement and come across as leader material. I think in Clegg, you saw someone who had conviction and great knowledge in what he debated - sure the LDs couldnt influence government but they did keep some of the Tories killer polices off the table - problem was people misunderstood what exactly the LDs could execute in the coalition.

Ironically her excuse is that she prefers to go out and meet people face to face, which really seems the strangest thing to say when the TV debates give millions, not hundreds (which she will reach door knocking) the chance to see her - get with the times. But as I say, she is bottling it as she isn't good enough and she knows it. I like the idea of the empty podium. Almost like the whole 'unity/stability' rubbish as the reason for the snap GE. I get that politicians sometimes have to invent reasons for their actions, but the inventiveness of her advisors is pretty poor