Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

misskool

things have got really crazy with banks. I can't apply for a bank account because I don't have more than 12 months permission to stay in the UK but I have lived here legally since Oct 2003.

yesh sir

neverdespairgirl

misskool wrote: »

things have got really crazy with banks. I can't apply for a bank account because I don't have more than 12 months permission to stay in the UK but I have lived here legally since Oct 2003.

yesh sir

Apply for ILR?

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Think your edging in there, PN.

Shh... he's a bloke and won't have spotted it.

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Blame the gf... it's a gf's job to spot these things and sort it out for you or remind (nag) you.

i meant to say pass the salt...but it came out as WHY DIDN'T YOU RENEW THE CAR TAX YOU B!TCH?!?!?!



i am actually getting a bit panicky now. the car is untaxed which means it is uninsured. luckily it is in a private underground garage so it is not going to be clamped and crushed, but i cant take it out on the road and the MOT is on wednesday.

i can't get the tax done on line because i haven't bothered to get the V5 updated so it's still got my old address on it, so they'll send the tax disc to my old address. i can't get the tax in the post office because i can't find my sodding insurance certificate (this is almost certainly the gf's fault as she constantly disrupts my careful "pile it on the table" filing system).

so basically i should just file the serial number off the car engine, remove the plates, drive it up the road and set it on fire and then start again!!

chewmylegoff

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Apply for ILR?

maybe she doesn't want to pay the £billion that it costs these days.

on the bright side, ILR is still cheaper than the fine i'm going to get for having an uninsured, untaxed car and not updating my V5.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

Why not try your hand at being a live in stylist, shouting "go girl", suggesting which shoes and underwear to wear and manhandling boobs and getting well paid for it. If men were silly enough to pay women to do this I'd happily do it.

are you hiring? i'm not moving jobs for less than £100,000. i want 35 days holiday as a minimum, 15% non-contributory pension, and i want to be able to turn up for work at 11am some mornings without getting grief for it.

Doozergirl

chewmylegoff wrote: »

maybe she doesn't want to pay the £billion that it costs these days.

on the bright side, ILR is still cheaper than the fine i'm going to get for having an uninsured, untaxed car and not updating my V5.

I may be wrong but I am sure a car is still insured even if your tax is overdue. You can insure a car that is SORN still. I think it's the other way around - you can't tax an uninsured car.

misskool

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Apply for ILR?

I don't qualify due to not purposely staying in the country for the right amount of time.

1st degree oct 1999-june 2001
home
2nd degree oct 2003-dec 2007
work permit mar 2008 - oct 2010
spouse visa oct 2010-oct 2012

Anyways, not a big deal until the last year. Financial institutions just started applying this rule.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i meant to say pass the salt...but it came out as WHY DIDN'T YOU RENEW THE CAR TAX YOU B!TCH?!?!?!



i am actually getting a bit panicky now. the car is untaxed which means it is uninsured. luckily it is in a private underground garage so it is not going to be clamped and crushed, but i cant take it out on the road and the MOT is on wednesday.

i can't get the tax done on line because i haven't bothered to get the V5 updated so it's still got my old address on it, so they'll send the tax disc to my old address. i can't get the tax in the post office because i can't find my sodding insurance certificate (this is almost certainly the gf's fault as she constantly disrupts my careful "pile it on the table" filing system).

so basically i should just file the serial number off the car engine, remove the plates, drive it up the road and set it on fire and then start again!!

I've always believed that if you want to tax a car you should just be able to turn up at the Post Office and do it. Insurance could run out tomorrow, as could the MoT, so the hoops they make you jump through are ridiculous - and I bet many people end up without a tax disc because they make it so hard to buy one.

chewmylegoff

Doozergirl wrote: »

I may be wrong but I am sure a car is still insured even if your tax is overdue. You can insure a car that is SORN still. I think it's the other way around - you can't tax an uninsured car.

i don't think that's right. i think if you have declared it as off the road that's fine and your insurance is valid on that basis, but if you have just not bothered to pay for the tax i think your insurance is void. edit: although i don't actually know and am basically making this up!

come to think of it, this happened last year. i will never learn.