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dxmedia:

--- Quote from: YT on December 30, 2011, 10:53:43 ---Money is tight. I'm on disability benifits and my cherokee is my toy,  and everyday hack. I was unable to get a 4x4 on motability, they wanted 2k advance payment on a jimny !!hence I had to buy the cherry. I can't afford to break it or have it off the road. I DO still have a play, it just requires a bit of restraint to minimise the chance of breakage, ok a 4L petrol isn't the cheapest to run, but it's a crackin drive, and I'm willing to put up with 12mpg round town.

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Sorry hate to be a stick in the mud, but that last post doesn't sit with me.

Money it tight. You have bought a 2nd car as a toy. It's a 4.0 Jeep. It does 12 to the gallon but that doesn't bother you, but money is tight.

I think a lot of this recession is hype being PUMPED AND PUMPED AND PUMPED by the media and the .gov. The torys are in power, they have one adgenda and that is to keep things they way they were (conservative) and that is for us, they working people, to make money for them, the toffs.

If there is no money about and every one is up [!Expletive Deleted!] creak then why was the 2011 christmas sales season one of the biggest to date? The government it trying desperatly to stop people from having money (wage cuts, high fuel prices, pension increases, fear), but the reality of it is, there is little credit out there but it doesn't mean that people don't have money.

dxmedia:
I also think that greenlaning is dying. In the past 36 months it's gone from a bit of banter from the bobble hats to any chav with a 4x4 and a trailer ripping the lanes apart to the media getting involved big time, BBC putting on tv programs... news papers... very high profile (snowdon) court cases.

Greenlaning is dying, public opinion has shifted in recent months and they don't want 4x4's ripping up their beautiful nation parks. And, to be honest, I don't blame them. I'm on a number of forums, and on EVERY SINGLE ONE people claim to abide by all of the glass rules, and then along come the photo's of lanes being used like winch challenge mud runs, people going off piste and basically acting like arses. And these are the pics which are being put up. Just look at youtube for more and more and more examples.

I'll give it 5 years before all greenlanes are closed unless for access only. 

lambert:
Such optimism makes me glad I has access rights.

LandRoger:
The way things are going it could be less than 5 years yesterday out on Salisbury Plain the MOD Police noted and broke up a convoy of 52 vehicals  yes 52 trucks in a line some idiot on U Tube suggested they have a (just tag on event) so they decended on the Plain by the dozens including illegal trucks on trailers it reminded me of the recent riots where the idiots just said sod it we will do what we want, some areas had people going just anywhere they fancied taking no notice of the dangers of the impact area if someone had got blown to bits that would of been the end of public vehicals on the plains, :shocked: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:think the total IQ of these people combined was .5 i was ashamed to be out there driving a prepped 4x4 had to go home i was so damned angry  ,only popped out for an hour to walk the dogs,

On the otherside of the coin last week we had a team of people erecting new Boat signs these dedicated peeps doing this unpaid job in there holiday time were from the exellent Tread lightly team also Dale Wyatt and team from Wilts Glass org,the signs are black/white WCC and red/white when red flags are flying MOD, they are doing the whole plain so plenty to do -have put myself and truck forward to help in the best Mud club tradition :grin:

Saffy:
I put my name forward many months ago to dig holes for those signs but never heard a peep, not even a noted thanks but no thanks.... but that's GLASS for you.... they don't get my monies anymore.

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