Recent content by giovanni_5060838

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    More Bad News

    Not happy about these rises, but i am really surprised how a month after the budget, groups are coming forward saying they did not know it would effect cars from march 2001! They had the editor from whatcar on the radio saying how they had been missled! Funnything is which diesel [sister mag]...
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    F1 Grand Prix Fans

    sadie said."Suggestion that taking another teams designs you can instantly build a faster car is just so ludicrous it is not worth discussing. Last years cars from the two teams were very different legths with different wheel bases." You almost came across as if you actually knew what you were...
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    F1 Grand Prix Fans

    Here you go sadie...http://www.mclaren.com/partners/group.php If i knew as much about F1 and motorsport as you do, i would need to forget 95% of what i know. note. Mercedes ARE the biggest shareholder! and how on earth do you believe they cannot afford to buy mclaren is beyound me!they have...
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    F1 Grand Prix Fans

    "Lay off Ferrari,because if your fingers are in the F1 industry,you should know better." And just for clarity, the above comment is something someone in the know would understand. Its not underhanded,or anything. Just at this moment in time,within the industry your accusations sadie are not...
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    F1 Grand Prix Fans

    sour grapes comes to mind! And we will never know what really happened!funny did not see denis[nice chap really] complaining about the huge fine. Nieve i am not, nor am i biased,but some seem to be well and truely nieve and biased. You almost make an unfunded accusation based on your own...
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    Teacher Pay

    Not for them or anyone striking LB. The guardian link is to a report in 2001,yes its old,but was all about civil servants paypackets and the huge rises they were gettiing. In a way it dwaft your report,i was only trying to compare the pay structure between diferent avenues that are options...
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    Teacher Pay

    Agree index linked pension sounds fantastic...sort of. But when local council office staff of a similar educted standard as a teacher, can earn more to start with. ie finance office legal office ect ect Indexed linked does not mean your pension will be better than another profession bodies...
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    Teacher Pay

    Does not look that good when you compare like with like. You one proffessional body against another. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2001/aug/29/Whitehall.uk.
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    F1 Grand Prix Fans

    I see the red muppets one again. glad to say F1 is so much better these days, with manufacturers getting involved in it 100% rather than just to supply engines to chassis builders. Agree about the motorsport politics remark, but thankfully,alot of that was delt with last season. And i am sure...
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    The green taxes motoring con

    rayc. Cars do not make up a small part of the entire co2 figures for motoring. Which is actually what is being discussed. But lets look at the others,trucks, which again with all new trucks being euro 3, and companies working on euro 4 and even euro5, all new trucks will also be far more...
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    The green taxes motoring con

    Have my doubts about climate change and the link to us. Have you noticed how the global warming statement has now changed to a statement concerning climate change!.Two totally different topics!!! Why? cause global warming is not happening,and climate change is something that has always...
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    Teacher Pay

    I am not for teachers striking,but come on you get what you pay for.A teacher was once in the same grouping of pay and respect as other top class university educated types,but even in my last years of schooling back in the late 70s things were not so good for them. Remember this, teachers...
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    Euros V ú

    Clearly the euros overvalued,and the eurozone is now starting to feel the pinch. Whilst i don't expect any drastic fall in the Euro,it will need to fall against the pound and others soon,so as not to speed up or cause a recession in the eurozone down to it being very high strength. So i am...
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    What a weekend

    Gio, checks,he checks again. Impossible,so he rechecks yet again....Nooooooooo way. Gio agrees with LB.............. CONCLUSION... LB must be wrong...................................
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    foreign trucks

    Jason... My main concern is whether someone is actually just making up a load of B... Now i offered my services to you, that i wouldapproach the RHA with the info you could supply..You supplied nothing, just as i expected. You made it clear early on as to what you meant and who it applied...