[Phil] Yeah - the payment covers January to December rather than a rolling 12-month period from the date of purchase, so if you buy it in October you've been done out of two-thirds of the benefits already, and the sticker they give you to show you've paid the highway robbery tax doesn't peel off either. Hmmph.

(Phil, pen) What a horrible little place, and in so many other ways as well.

Oh, I quite liked it...once I learnt to love efficiency.

[Phil] Your previous: Even Steve McQueen found out that, and he was only riding a motorcycle.

Cunning, hiding the speed camera inside a perfectly innocuous six-foot tall, four foot wide block of Emmenthal.