Brexit, for once some facts.

[Jesus H Christ]

I had the misfortune to own one of these, the V4 2 litre model

It had the handling of a fast jelly, and the final insult (apart from the speedo suddenly deciding to read 70mph when doing thirty, was when I went out one winter morning turned the ignition key and there was a strange high pitched shriek from the engine bay
We stripped it down at the weekend to find that the starter ring had fallen off the flywheel and the starter gear pinion chewed some teeth off when it got trapped against the casing.
Ah well another visit to the scrap yard initially to get spared, and then to let them pick the car up and scrap it as things were even worse than we though when we got the engine out.

Nice. I always liked the look of those when I was a kid.

My dad had a Mk2 Cortina 1600E. That was a great car. I can still remember the image of him driving along the driveway up to the house when he’d been to pick it up. It was his first new car.

After owning it for a couple of years, he put a Lotus 1.6 twin cam engine in it from a Lotus Elan that his friend had written off. I remember him upgrading the suspension & brakes too. It was never as reliable after that, but it sounded great and went like a rocket. I wish I had it now.

 

[oldgroaner]

For the Faithful we have arrived in the "Sunlit Uplands"

The Cash registers will ring out joyously throughout the length and breadth of the Empire!
The only problem is, this is in that paragon of journalistic purity
The Telegraph

 

[oyster]

For the Faithful we have arrived in the "Sunlit Uplands"

The Cash registers will ring out joyously throughout the length and breadth of the Empire!
The only problem is, this is in that paragon of journalistic purity
The Telegraph

Very questionable language. A pandemic is defined to be widespread. And there is absolutely no doubt that the world is still in pandemic. Whether any country can be "no longer in pandemic" when it both has cases and continues to be under threat (witness SA and Indian variants, for two prongs), is questionable.

"A pandemic is an outbreak of global proportions. It happens when infection due to a bacterium or virus becomes capable of spreading widely and rapidly. "

 

[Zlatan]

Having previously had years in the trade as a motor mechanic I managed to avoid all the turkeys. My own Ford at that time was the Cortina GT with the crossflow in-line four engine, bought new for £860 at the same time as my flat, though that cost a little more at £4150.

At the time I was skint but had just switched banks and the new bank manager could hardly have been more obliging.
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Cross flow was a lovely engine.. Great as it was but formed basis of Lotus Twin Cam... Put quite a few in Westfields...It would still hold its own.. But things have moved on a lot..

 

[Jesus H Christ]

For the Faithful we have arrived in the "Sunlit Uplands"

The Cash registers will ring out joyously throughout the length and breadth of the Empire!
The only problem is, this is in that paragon of journalistic purity
The Telegraph

There is no doubt that we are in a better position than we were four weeks after, “Boris Battles the Boffins to save Christmas.” Anyone remember that headline? I bet they’d like you to forget it now the cost of that battle ended up being around 60000 casualties. All of them foot soldiers, no general was hurt during the battle.

I don’t really have a problem if people now want to go and spend money they don’t have on things they don’t need. It will empty the countryside and leave more space for me.

 

[Zlatan]

There is no doubt that we are in a better position than we were four weeks after, “Boris Battles the Boffins to save Christmas.” Anyone remember that headline? I bet they’d like you to forget it now the cost of that battle ended up being around 60000 casualties. All of them foot soldiers, no general was hurt during the battle.

I don’t really have a problem if people now want to go and spend money they don’t have on things they don’t need. It will empty the countryside and leave more space for me.

It's all very short sighted tho.. Folk don't seem capable of enjoying the better times without risking bringing back the bad ones.
People are not following guidance as well... And to be fair tlo Boris he did come on tele and tell us all our current low death/infection/hospialisation rates are due to good social distancing and not the vaccine. Give it a couple of months and I suspect rates will climb...

 

[flecc]

I suspect rates will climb...

One way or another. I heard on radio a couple of days ago that 900 people a day travel between India and the Britain. That should keep our virus and variant load topped up.
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[Zlatan]

One way or another. I heard on radio a couple of days ago that 900 people a day travel between India and the Britain. That should keep our virus and variant load topped up.
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Seems so predictable.. Interviewing all those folk rushing back to avoid restrictions and infect us.. Crazy.

 

[Jesus H Christ]

It's all very short sighted tho.. Folk don't seem capable of enjoying the better times without risking bringing back the bad ones.
People are not following guidance as well... And to be fair tlo Boris he did come on tele and tell us all our current low death/infection/hospialisation rates are due to good social distancing and not the vaccine. Give it a couple of months and I suspect rates will climb...

I don’t really care what people do. Lockdown / risk of infection doesn’t really affect me. Most of my activity is outside and I’ve absolutely no desire to go into a pub or a shop.

We should all know by now how this works. People either take it seriously or they don’t. We know the outcome of each option. Crack on.

 

[Jesus H Christ]

One way or another. I heard on radio a couple of days ago that 900 people a day travel between India and the Britain. That should keep our virus and variant load topped up.
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As soon as you hear about a new variant, assume that’s its here and has spread everywhere. We aren’t bad at finding new variants, but it all falls apart at the stage of stopping it coming here and tracking the people who are infected.

 

[oyster]

Cummings not happy.

Boris Johnson news – live: Cummings says PM failing UK on ‘competence and integrity’ as he denies leaking

 

[flecc]

Boris Johnson news – live: Cummings says PM failing UK on ‘competence and integrity’ as he denies leaking

Pot calling the kettle black I think.
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[oldgroaner]

Britain's sharpest sociopath in a bit upset with his former boss

See no evil Johnson

 

[Jesus H Christ]

Dominic Cummings has said Boris Johnson lacks integrity How do you begin to respond to that?

 

[Zlatan]

Dominic Cummings has said Boris Johnson lacks integrity How do you begin to respond to that?

He was talking about a car made by Honda or was it Lancia.. The Lancia 4x4 Rally inspired one, fantastic car.Only available in LHD and very rare but let so than in MPs. Its none existent in them.

 

[flecc]

He was talking about a car made by Honda or was it Lancia.. The Lancia 4x4 Rally inspired one, fantastic car.Only available in LHD and very rare but let so than in MPs. Its none existent in them.

Honda's Code of Conduct is all about Integrity.

But the nearest to that word from Lancia was their Delta Integrale Model:

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[oyster]

He was talking about a car made by Honda or was it Lancia.. The Lancia 4x4 Rally inspired one, fantastic car.Only available in LHD and very rare but let so than in MPs. Its none existent in them.

Honda (or Acura) Integra.

 

[Zlatan]

Honda's Code of Conduct is all about Integrity.

But the nearest to that word from Lancia was their Delta Integrale Model:

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I seriously wanted an Integrale.. Had Delta Turbo and a Beta Coupe.. Similar cars. Beta coupe amongst best handling (fwd) car I, ve ever had but it washed away on drive one morning. Was a smashing car with a sublime engine. (Fiat Twin cam, which had all the right bits years before Ford, Steel Billet crank as standard on early ones)

 

[Nev]

What's happened to Michael Gove? I have not seen or heard from him for some time. For someone that was continually on the TV and radio he seems to be keeping an extremely low profile does anyone know why?

A couple of possibilities I can think of would be perhaps he is unwell and is undergoing some kind of medical treatment, or does he think that as more sleaze allegations come out some of which might stick, he wants to try and keep out of it all.

Then if BJ is forced out (the tories are very quick to leave a sinking ship) he can step in as the saviour of the Conservative party and the UK.

 

[flecc]

What's happened to Michael Gove? I have not seen or heard from him for some time. For someone that was continually on the TV and radio he seems to be keeping an extremely low profile does anyone know why?

He has been visiting Israel to study their Green Pass and how it works with a view to the possibility of a vaccine passport here in Britain.

He's currently the Cabinet Minister, a rather vague job which probably permits a wandering brief.
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