I'm sure the law doesn't apply to folk like you
Fined after taking Chausson for hab check & service
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If you got a call to say your MH had been damaged your insurance company would require you to ensure that it was secured and asking the site owner to do so would in no way be a safe way to do that ... after all if it's been broken into already the site can't be that secure can it! If the MH was then broken into again due it it not being sufficiently secured after the original damage so that thieves got in the same way and trashed it you wouldn't be covered.
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I just wish those responding would read the original post so that they know that it wasn't the poster's MH in question and no MOT was mentioned ... rather than just jumping on the 'disgusted of Coventry' bandwagon!
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I'm sure the law doesn't apply to folk like you
There is NO law against looking after your property in the UK that I know of.
I am so pleased you have only posted 4 times
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Oh dear - they are not even open, so how can it be true!! It is considerably nearer Nottingham, a much more major town than Newark! The address is listed as Nottingham, too!
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On our local watch group there is a transit van doing the rounds, driving slowly past houses and the driver and passenger looking up driveways .It's been reported to the police ,the reg no shows no tax,mot or insurance. Not sure if it's been lifted yet .
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I’m sorry but it doesn’t matter how you dress it up. A journey to a storage site to look at your motorhome is not and never will be essential. It does surprise me just how many people have absolutely no idea what essential means.
When my father in law’s house got broken into the police got a company in to secure it. The same could quite easily be done re a vehicle.
Are you another one trying to justify pushing the rules about what we should and shouldn’t be doing?
There is a law which says stay at home.
Imagine the scene..
Cops pull you over....
Sorry officer, I'm going to see my camper.
Tough.
OR.
Sorry officer, I'm going to see my camper which cost twice what you earn in a year.
Of course sir, have a nice day.
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Just to be clear I quote SAGA car insurance FAQ's I don't think SAGA is a company to be avoided, they do have a decent reputation and I have found their prices are competitive.'
"Can I insure a car with no MOT?
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The law also allows you to leave the house under certain circumstances, such as shopping.
As I have not read all of the publications from HMG I do not know if it allows for travel in the event of damage to say a second property or a stored MH.
Have you read the laws on this and can provide an answer ?
I don’t think any of this is easy all the time Government guidance on working and working from home is confusing when set alongside travel restrictions. The work advice is: work from home if you can but if you can’t, plan your journey to avoid crowds where possible. Almost no one is being legally required not to work other than, say, hairdressers etc due to the close-contact nature of their work. Even shop workers could be required by their employers to turn up for stock-take or to support mail order services, even if the shop can’t open.
So there’s no obvious legal restriction on a mobile service engineer coming to my house to service my motorhome on my drive, suitably socially distanced, yet that journey is no more nor less essential than me taking it to a servicing centre for the same purpose. I’ve got no intention of getting my motorhome serviced until the legal position is much clearer, but there’s a long-standing contradiction at the heart of all this. Most people who can’t work from home can still work and be required to work, even if the services provided are far from essential. It’s a total mess and a legal nightmare.
So there’s no obvious legal restriction on a mobile service engineer coming to my house to service my motorhome on my drive, suitably socially distanced, yet that journey is no more nor less essential than me taking it to a servicing centre for the same purpose. I’ve got no intention of getting my motorhome serviced until the legal position is much clearer, but there’s a long-standing contradiction at the heart of all this. Most people who can’t work from home can still work and be required to work, even if the services provided are far from essential. It’s a total mess and a legal nightmare.
Do Lowdhams have a depot in Newark?
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In relation the original post. This is a perfect example of how the dissemination of misinformation works on social media. Someone creates a BS post for reasons known only to them, others innocently pick up on it and spread it wider and it becomes an acknowledged fact. When evidence later emerges to negate the original post it has already passed into the realms of irrefutable truth and urban myth.The peculiar times we live in seem to have increased this effect, as anyone who has spent much time on social media can easily attest!
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Try telling that to the Norfolk farmer who was put behind bars for shooting an intruder..... he had my sympathy as the toe-rags had done him before but you cannot just take the law into your own hands.... He used unreasonable force.....apparently !
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No. They are in Gunthorpe, several miles away... We bought our first Ssangyong from there.
The dealers in Newark are Brownhills and SMC.
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The key word is 'Might' I would still walk away from SAGA.
IIRC sitting there with a loaded gun and shooting the offender in the back as he was running away was taken as unreasonable. Just as I remember it though.
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You’re correct, might is the key word. If the vehicle was being driven illegally on the public roads without an mot then quite possibly the vehicle would not be covered. If however the vehicle was stolen from an off road storage site or private drive then it would be insured.
There are those that still will not accept that a vehicle does not necessarily need an mot to be insured.
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Classic case of, if it is on social media it must be true, despite clear indications to the contrary...this is how BS conspiracy theories gain traction, critical thinking gets suspended, so called 'facts' are not called into question, and common sense is put aside in favour of sensationalism.
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It was something like that!
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Lowdham Leisure World at Gunthorpe is nearer to Nottingham than Newark!
No but you might say, 'I have just had a call to tell me my motorhome has been broken into and I simply need to make it secure - watertight and prevent others gaining access'. No it's not essential within the context of a medical/fire emergency but I personally believe it would be quite a reasonable call. If I was visiting it to make a cosmetic modification or clean it that would NOT be essential. Just my view not sure if it's right or not?
I've had a silly idea.
If you're not sure if your journey is essential, maybe call the local cop shop and ask them?
Hmmm.
If you're not sure if your journey is essential, maybe call the local cop shop and ask them?
Hmmm.
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You're clutching at straws now
What like the 2 groups of 31 fined 200 a piece having breakfast together? Or the chav one the other day arresting a bloke going about his lawful business?
And if they can't go to school for fear of infection then neither should they be allowed out of the house for the same reason . Same as furloughed doesn't mean you are being paid to go out on the slag whilst others are working. You're being paid to stay at home.
To get 200+ government's all doing the same thing would mean they all have knowledge that isn't in the public domain.
Yes.
What is essential to you is not essential to me. The first thing I'd be saving in any situation is my dogs and vehicles.
It was dark how do you know which way he was running?
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He shot him in the back as he was running away ... there was no dispute about this ... if the oik had been running towards him it would have been a different matter.
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I did just that for my bikers' club Brunch Runs during the previous lockdown when caffs were still open and the 'essential' bit didn't apply and was advised:
You may keep riding in groups of no more than six; provided that you observe distancing, hand hygiene and mask requirements at all times.
I took a note of the police advisor's name, time of my call and the Enquiry Reference Number.
Obviously we haven't been out at all during this more restricted lockdown.
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That's your opinion which thankfully I don't have to take notice of.
Right back at ya ... you're just constantly 'pushing' views to try to point score for the sake of it ... mind your halo doesn't slip!
Its not a silly idea, it would be a good thing to do that way you have reported a crime and got a number for it, something which your insurer would want you to do, then once you'd been to make the vehicle secure you could then use the crime number to update the Police on the situation and pass it onto your insurer.
My husbands yard was broken into. Some valuable equipment stolen. All cops did was give us an incident number because apparently they were too short staffed to send anyone out. Yet now they have plenty of officers to do the gov bidding.
I have been called names because I expressed sadness at people dying or being very ill with covid, but then dared to go and suggest that the figures the gov give us are manipulated in such a way as to put the fear of god into us. So many people still seem to think that a "positive case" is someone who is ill. That is not true. Most of them have no symptoms at all. And the world health organsation is now admitting that the PCR test should not be used for mass testing. They are also saying and have been for months - lockdowns are not the best way to deal with the virus. Keeping us away from each other is building up trouble for later. Our immune systems need constant stimulas to work efficeintly. We will have little natural immunity to anything if this continues.
When our gov say they are following the science, they clearly don't rate the scientists of the world health organisation very highly.
For those who believe the vaccine is the way out - one only has to read the papers or listen to the news to know that isn't going to happen any time soon. I believe there has been a spike in the number of deaths which does not fit the pattern of the virus. Those deaths started to increase in almost exact proportion to the number of people who have had the jab. This data is available on gov own website.
I am not callous or a covid denier. But the gov own data is showing that the restrictions are doing us more harm than the virus. I also happen to believe that quality of life is as important over time as simply not being dead. Back at the beginning, lockdown seemed feasible. Not so now.
I have been called names because I expressed sadness at people dying or being very ill with covid, but then dared to go and suggest that the figures the gov give us are manipulated in such a way as to put the fear of god into us. So many people still seem to think that a "positive case" is someone who is ill. That is not true. Most of them have no symptoms at all. And the world health organsation is now admitting that the PCR test should not be used for mass testing. They are also saying and have been for months - lockdowns are not the best way to deal with the virus. Keeping us away from each other is building up trouble for later. Our immune systems need constant stimulas to work efficeintly. We will have little natural immunity to anything if this continues.
When our gov say they are following the science, they clearly don't rate the scientists of the world health organisation very highly.
For those who believe the vaccine is the way out - one only has to read the papers or listen to the news to know that isn't going to happen any time soon. I believe there has been a spike in the number of deaths which does not fit the pattern of the virus. Those deaths started to increase in almost exact proportion to the number of people who have had the jab. This data is available on gov own website.
I am not callous or a covid denier. But the gov own data is showing that the restrictions are doing us more harm than the virus. I also happen to believe that quality of life is as important over time as simply not being dead. Back at the beginning, lockdown seemed feasible. Not so now.
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