Paul, in his Aston Martin gilet, 10 years from retirement, living in one of the most expensive houses in one of the best places in Britain, with savings and investments worth £2-4mil (excluding anything he has in tax-free ISAs), who has earned enough in his lifetime to pay “millions in taxes”…

8/

We’ll have huge planning docs written by AI (tbf they already are huge), summarised by AI, with responses written by AI, then summarised by AI.

Maybe eventually we’ll cut out the middleman and just write a few bullet points in the first place…

My parents have been talking about moving for decades, and have now realised they’ve left it too late…

She should consider building an indoor swimming pool to lower the value, apparently.

The closest anyone’s come to that, for practical reasons, is an entirely voluntary system where you can pay your vehicle tax by the mile if you chose to take a device, if your car is compatible and your lease allows or you own. Or you pay a normal fixed annual fee.

The reason nobody’s done it is because it’s a pipe dream.

Nobody in the world does it for good reason.

A congestion charge involving entry into a defined area - or toll road - is an entirely different proposition.

That might work for a small percentage of cars….

And “other people of shied away from doing this because it’s deeply flawed, but not us!”

The consultation doc basically says we sensed checked it but we shouldn’t let the fact it doesn’t make sense get in the way of doing it.

So mechanics are now tax inspectors.

And you’ll need to get a mechanic to check your mileage in years one and two even though you don’t need an MOT. Who’s paying for that?

And a check too when you sell it? Or return a lease?

“Motorists will have their mileage checked annually, typically during their MOT as is already the case, or for new cars, around their first and second registration anniversary.”

“Alongside paying their VED each year, under eVED motorists will estimate their mileage for the year ahead, pay an upfront charge based on their estimate or spread their payment across the year, and then submit their actual mileage at the end of the year to trigger a reconciliation.”

I think you get charged on the total mileage which is why it’s 1.5p vs 3p (ie they assume everyone does half their miles on battery).

So if you only drive short distances a hybrid will be cheaper than a full EV. But if you got a hybrid just to get cheaper VED but never plug it in, you’ll pay more.

Reuse of frames though, I mean?