Current Affairs 2023

[towny44]

I’ve just done an online quote for LV. They won’t cover my angina.! Looks like I’m stuck with staysure.

A friend of ours uses the Natwest flexplus account, and it also gets well supported over on CC. For a.monthly fee of £13 you get free worldwide travel insurance and breakdown cover. You will need a top up for pre existing med conditions, but even that seems fairly reasonable, according to reports.
I am thinking of switching when our staysure policy renews, although our friend says that a friend if hers recently cancelled her staysure policy and they gave her a pro rata rebate.

[Mervyn and Trish]

I thought I would do the right thing and inform the travel insurance company about my recent angina diagnosis, the response nearly gave me a bloody heart attack.! How the hell can you afford to travel with an increase in premium of £700.

Blimey. We pay a total of £460 supplement to cover both of us being over 70 (that's £75 each) and the other £310 covers Trish for asthma and osteoporosis and me having had major heart and aorta surgery and treatment for prostate cancer. And that's on a worldwide annual policy.

You should ask Stephen for a Compo form (or if he charges too much I am still in touch with Cubie and can get you some wholesale!)

Do you mind me asking who your with Merv.?

Ours is with NatWest as part of our current account. (There's a fee of £20 a month but we more than get it back with various benefits including AA breakdown cover and cashback on various purchases).. Basic insurance cover is included free, we just pay the supplement for being old and crumbly.

[towny44]

Blimey. We pay a total of £460 supplement to cover both of us being over 70 (that's £75 each) and the other £310 covers Trish for asthma and osteoporosis and me having had major heart and aorta surgery and treatment for prostate cancer. And that's on a worldwide annual policy.

You should ask Stephen for a Compo form (or if he charges too much I am still in touch with Cubie and can get you some wholesale!)

Do you mind me asking who your with Merv.?

Ours is with NatWest as part of our current account. (There's a fee of £20 a month but we more than get it back with various benefits including AA breakdown cover and cashback on various purchases).. Basic insurance cover is included free, we just pay the supplement for being old and crumbly.

I picked the fee up from google but it was obviously old info, however even at £240 pa it sounds good value if you holiday regularly.

[Ray B]

We normally take out an annual policy but our holiday during February this year was 6 weeks which took us a few days over the days away clause and therefore required a single trip policy. We had to list every country, Island we visited. They came back at £1100.00. That was more than the annual policy.That was with Staysure.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Do you mind me asking who your with Merv.?

Ours is with NatWest as part of our current account. (There's a fee of £20 a month but we more than get it back with various benefits including AA breakdown cover and cashback on various purchases).. Basic insurance cover is included free, we just pay the supplement for being old and crumbly.

I picked the fee up from google but it was obviously old info, however even at £240 pa it sounds good value if you holiday regularly.

They have a range of accounts at different prices. I think our may be the middle one. The AA membership and insurance cover the £240 but we average more than £10 a month in cashback on direct debits and purchases on our credit card.

[towny44]

Ours is with NatWest as part of our current account. (There's a fee of £20 a month but we more than get it back with various benefits including AA breakdown cover and cashback on various purchases).. Basic insurance cover is included free, we just pay the supplement for being old and crumbly.

I picked the fee up from google but it was obviously old info, however even at £240 pa it sounds good value if you holiday regularly.

They have a range of accounts at different prices. I think our may be the middle one. The AA membership and insurance cover the £240 but we average more than £10 a month in cashback on direct debits and purchases on our credit card.

My NW credit card used to give cashback, but that stopped about 2 yrs ago, I dont think I would use it as my prime account, so what is the minimum number and value of transactions that I would need to put through, to keep it live?

[Mervyn and Trish]

Don't know to be honest. It's been our main current account for a very long time. I suspect Mr Google would know. Ours is a Platinum Reward account.

[screwy]

Thanks for all the info everyone.

I did a quick quote on insure&go,came out quite expensive so didn’t pursue it. I got a call later asking about it. I said it was too expensive, he came back saying he could do annual multi trip, think it was European,including angina and cruise cover for around £750.! He reckoned staysure would pay me a pro rata payment,only had the policy 3 months.

[Mervyn and Trish]

That sounds not at all bad.

[screwy]

Yeah,I thought so too, unfortunately I checked with staysure and am outside the cooling off period so they wouldn’t pay a pro rata payment.
The agent at insure and go gave me his number and told me to call him when I am going to renew, obviously it will have gone up but not as much as I’m paying now.

[Gill W]

Meanwhile some things never change

Sunak gets a fixed penalty fine, his second in 12 months, and the second PM in succession to break the law. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64353054

Then we have Nadhim Zahawi being 'careless' with his tax affairs

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... i-29008810

What a shower they are, still not fit for office

[Stephen]

Pocket money to both of them.

[Stephen]

In fairness I wouldn’t be surprised if most ministers jump in the back of their official car and don’t bother with a seat belt. If it weren’t for the video and a lack of judgement on Sunak’s part no one would be any the wiser.

[david63]

And if it was one of us do you think that the police would even notice - let alone do anything about it?

[screwy]

Maybe IF his car were to come under some sort of attack, would he really be wanting to fiddle about undoing the seat belt.!

[Mervyn and Trish]

Maybe we should ask all our MPs, on all parties, to declare any motoring offences committed to see how many have a clean sheet? And bar any that don't, on all parties, from office.

I won't be standing, having received 2 speeding tickets in the past 50 years.

[Ray B]

Maybe we should ask all our MPs, on all parties, to declare any motoring offences committed to see how many have a clean sheet? And bar any that don't, on all parties, from office.

I won't be standing, having received 2 speeding tickets in the past 50 years.

But you have declared your skeleton in the cupboard Merv so nothing else to find, or is there?

[Stephen]

Cupboard!...... he's got a triple wardrobe full of''m....allegedly

[Mervyn and Trish]

Come on Stephen. You know I'm married. You think I get a triple wardrobe? I've got one drawer and a cardboard box. Trish has the rest.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Maybe we should ask all our MPs, on all parties, to declare any motoring offences committed to see how many have a clean sheet? And bar any that don't, on all parties, from office.

I won't be standing, having received 2 speeding tickets in the past 50 years.

But you have declared your skeleton in the cupboard Merv so nothing else to find, or is there?

I did get detention at school once when I was 6.

[oldbluefox]

Not the first politicians to transgress, not even the only ones, and won't be the last.
Nothing to get excited about really

[Onelife]

Maybe we should ask all our MPs, on all parties, to declare any motoring offences committed to see how many have a clean sheet? And bar any that don't, on all parties, from office.

I won't be standing, having received 2 speeding tickets in the past 50 years.

Not wishing to play the one-upmanship card but I received two speeding tickets within the space of 15 minutes.

I had to pick up a prescription from my doctor’s surgery and got caught on the way there and on the way back. I can’t remember the precise speed I was doing but in all of the speeding fines (4) I’ve received none have been more than 8mph over the limit.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Sunak got his office to contact the police and tell them to issue the fixed penalty notice before it turned into a political football…

[Onelife]

Meanwhile some things never change

Sunak gets a fixed penalty fine, his second in 12 months, and the second PM in succession to break the law. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64353054

Then we have Nadhim Zahawi being 'careless' with his tax affairs

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... i-29008810

What a shower they are, still not fit for office

My best Mate was a Stratford-upon-Avon Councillor and said Zahawi always comes across as being false.

[towny44]

Meanwhile some things never change

Sunak gets a fixed penalty fine, his second in 12 months, and the second PM in succession to break the law. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64353054

Then we have Nadhim Zahawi being 'careless' with his tax affairs

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... i-29008810

What a shower they are, still not fit for office

My best Mate was a Stratford-upon-Avon Councillor and said Zahawi always comes across as being false.

I've never thought he was the sharpest knife in the drawer for a politician, but most labour MPs can only drool over his vast wealth, and their jealousy is only too apparent.

[Onelife]

My personal opinion is that this country would be better placed to make sound decisions if those empowered to make those decisions spent a 40-hour week doing the job they are handsomely paid to do.

I don’t care how successful they are in their business, if they want a career change, then that should be their sole interest, especially when you consider the responsibility, they carry in making the right decisions for their country.

We need to break away from this present system of Government, even if it is in the short term (20 years or so) in order to address the corruption and sleaze that has impregnated itself into our political system.