There comes a point when tiredness overwhelms one! It was reached a long time ago insofar as this imbécilic concatenation of “folies de la vie” that constitute the policies of the established political order in present day Blighty!
The above photograph is of a Ford Focus being auctioned today. Ending at 7:30PM, the reserve has nearly been met at the time of posting. For your information Dear Reader the new price of this hardly used used car ranged between £27,925 – £35,437 depending on specifications.
Herewith the auction: https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/auctions/2010-ford-focus-rs-25-8qvOXg
What is so, so tiring is the utter predictability about what happens in the now not too distant future when the above referred to imbéciles outlaw the sale of any new car other than those battery powered versions!
It is so obvious to any sentient creature with a brain that has two or more functioning cells as to WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!!!!!!!!
What will happen is that there will be a number of enterprising individuals who will offer a money making scheme to those with capital to invest. The scheme will work thus:
The entrepreneur will have acquired by purchase, lease or rental warehouse space that will have humidity control. They will offer this space to investors for the purpose of storing a motor vehicle that they would purchase on behalf of the investor. This will be a new vehicle purchased by the entrepreneur’s company as a commercial fleet order thus enabling the said company the substantial discounts offered to such orders. The vehicles will be registered in the name of the said company which will have paid the initial road tax. The said company will take delivery of the cars and immediately SORN them receiving a portion of the tax paid. The vehicles will then be offered for sale as second hand vehicles to the investor. The investor will agree to allow the company to store the investor’s vehicle in the warehouse and agree to have a travelling vehicle mechanic to provide routine vehicle servicing in situ.
NB: The above commercial activity will take place BEFORE the sale of such vehicles becomes illegal!
The idea of course will be for the investor to wait a while (a few or more years) and then sell the vehicle as a second hand car that is in new condition having only it’s delivery mileage and had been stored in a humidity controlled environment and had been subject to a SORN during the entire time it was there.
I anticipate that large numbers of private investors will be attracted by such schemes and many “fossil fuelled” vehicles will be purchased in the couple of years before the ban comes into effect!
The government of the day will be advised of what is going on and will likely reform the tax system so as to reduce or eliminate the money a car owner can get back if the SORN a car within the first year of registration!
Of course, a wide range of “fossil fuelled” vehicles will be purchased from those budget vehicles all the way through to top end vehicles.
The one danger of these investments schemes is this: A government that decides to scrap the planned ban!
This of course will meet with the fanatical opposition of the green lobby and I will be able to witness university educated members of the upper middle class who used to live in the more salubrious areas of the Home Counties and who now live in Cornwall County Council’s Land’s End ward wail about CO2 and the planet’s imminent destruction the lifting of the ban will herald!
On a different matter, my local vicar has asked his congregation to pray for the members of the local Deanery Synod as they make an important decision about the future organisation within the deanery.
Praying generally means the human praying to the Almighty asking for something – generally for another person and not themselves. Given the state of “institutionalised imbécility” present in the the UK and Europe today, one wonders if one should offer a prayer to the Almighty Himself for when He created men and women He thought He was creating intelligent creatures.
Given the level of stupidity in the world, I wonder if He is having doubts?