Any question answered...

Twice as many? That is a surprise. Most people (I know) carry their DL with them, most people don’t carry their passport, it’s smaller and more convenient, would serve as a better base than the passport.

Q: what is there to do in Stockholm this evening?

A: chat shit on a london based cycling forum.

Whilst doing my expenses and preparing for my interviews tomorrow? Sounds likely.

Find & visit an all-night stockist of Gransfor Bruks axes.

dibs if it splits.

Greenland Wax everything you own.

Skating rinks open?

@Dammit please link for the live stream.

... Er, I think I got that completely wrong.

Maybe I divided total UK passports (which includes a load of expats) by total UK registered cars (which is a lot fewer than licence holders). Sorry.

Go look at @badboybjorn 's Maserati?

things like defence, courts, environmental protection.

I suppose I'm conditioned to think of healthcare as belonging with those things (environmental protection and defence are a bit all or nothing, but the courts is similarly applied to individuals), but I agree it's more complicated.

Even if the economics say healthcare tourism is irrelevant, the politics might say you have to do something about it if the small losses have a material effect on the willingness of taxpayers to keep funding socialised healthcare.

And that's one of the ongoing problems with politics - it doesn't matter what the reality is, if the voters think "health tourism" is a problem, then the politicians have to "do something about it". And why do they think it's a problem? Because it's an easy narrative that sells papers and gives politicians someone to blame.

Personally I think the NHS should be available to everyone who lives here, regardless of citizenship. "Tourism" suggests that someone can fly over and get on-the-spot treatment, which the system of being referred from local primary care to specialists, would seem to prevent. It does then mean that someone who anticipated needing expensive treatment could move here to live, but would that be a significant number? Perhaps it would be enough to cause a problem, I have no idea. I just don't see why someone who lives abroad and is a British citizen should be more eligible for free NHS care, than someone who has lived here most of their life but has no official status.

@campervangogh link to that BMW?

I have no data to speak to on the health tourism side of things, just wondering about our own health tourists in Spain who are largely retirees, all of whom are presumably counting on the UK to pick up the bill for their infirmities in coming years.

IIRC Spain isn't claiming that back from the UK but I imagine it may do post Brexit.

it sold really quick, before my question even got answered
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a.aspx?id=1568513224&tm=email&et=202&mt=C25BF5D3-BF3C-48B9-A430-000749A68010&rewritten=true

My Garmin has died. Again. It's less than a year old. I seem to have lost the packaging. Can I still get a replacement?

@hoefla, isn't the NHS residence based? I thought anyone living in the UK are entitled to free primary and secondary treatments?

I guess the issue is the word 'lawful' or 'official status', if you haven't got any official paper then you could be refused treatment or have to pay? What triggered my original post was actually this man who is refused free NHS treatment for his cancer.

I just don't understand how the Home Office could find no traces of him and surly his payslips, assuming he was not paid cash in had if he'd been paying taxes, P45 / P60, bank statements etc etc are enough to prove that he'd been legally living in the UK...

It's less than a year old. I seem to have lost the packaging. Can I still get a replacement?

Yes, if you can prove that the date of purchase was less than a year ago. Probably, if they think it was approximately a year ago even though you can't prove it, I got a free swap on one which was well past a year old.

surly his payslips, assuming he was not paid cash in had if he'd been paying taxes, P45 / P60, bank statements etc etc are enough to prove that he'd been legally living in the UK...

They prove that he has been living and working in the UK, but not that he was doing so legally. Historically, loads of illegal immigrants have held down jobs for years. Having banks and employers checking people's immigration status before dealing with them is a recent innovation

Yeah I also posted that story, pretty tragic

Yes, if you can prove that the date of purchase was less than a year ago.

Good news. Bought it a bit earlier than I thought, but I think I should have up to two years to return it, at least until we leave the EU.

Belated thanks to @Heldring, @carson and @ExTra
I’ve gone for butterfly bars.

Does anyone know who the insurance company is for London black cabs?

Nice. #butterflybarsarethefuture

It is likely that there is more than one company insuring London Cabs.

Does anyone know who the insurance company is for London black cabs?

The driver of a particular cab should know :) Some of the comparison sites show a top 10 for cab insurance, but that's likely to the 10 they'd most like to refer you to than the 10 with the greatest market share.