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mainbeam wrote:Or maybe we should just have a vote and let the authorities give effect to popular opinion by circumventing due process.

Like we did the last 2 times we had referendums? But then we voted the way we were supposed to

The Daily Mail's got its knickers in a twist over drivers using their mobiles at the wheel (especially foreign truck drivers after a mother and 3 children were killed) Now IIRC, the fine was recently increased to £100 with 3 points and it can be up to £2,500 for HGV drivers. But this doesn't seem to...

Oh, I thought it would be something cultural, or their driving discipline rather than plain geography

Austria is in the EU anyway, and if you believe some people, Switzerland signs up to all EU directives

I'll bite

Why?

superplum wrote: Also, I seem to recall that smart meters need an internet connection which then begs another question - who pays for it?

Don't know if they all do, but my meter has a sim card for data transfer

Rolyan wrote:Have you seen any benefits to your Smart meter. The more I think about it, the more I want to cancel the appointment and stick with what I've got.

Not really. It came with a remote display, which I used to look at when I went past it, but it hasn't been plugged in for months

Angus, my meter still goes backwards, but I doubt if that makes much difference other than a placebo effect. The FIT payment, as you know, is based on your FIT meter readings, not on some magical interpretation of what current is flowing in or out of your main meter. Ah, but in addition to your FIT...

whatever they claim as an advantage for you, it is important to remember that they are only bearing the cost of this because they see it as a commercial advantage for them... I thought the government was subsidising this? Personally, I've lost out with a smart meter. With solar panels, my old meter...

The "someone suggested" is on a par with the "incident involving a car like yours" that I had some years ago. They stopped me bacause it was 2am and England had played an international that evening but couldn't say that. It's an excuse because they're not allowed to do random tes...

What sort of car was it? ie clearly a "traffic" car with a trained driver or something like a Focus driven by a numpty? The reference to "logs" is a joke, as I found a few years ago. I'd heard the siren so was alert to a situation, though being between the ambulance station and t...