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englishangel wrote: Not everyone

b) has a car with a number plate

?????!!! Surely even the queen has to comply with the laws of the road and put a number plate on her car? Or at least she has her butler do it...

marty wrote:

englishangel wrote: Not everyone

b) has a car with a number plate

?????!!! Surely even the queen has to comply with the laws of the road and put a number plate on her car? Or at least she has her butler do it...

Her No 1 Official car does NOT have number plates ! It is the only vehicle in the UK that does not have to have them.

marty wrote: I think I must have been living in a bubble for the past few months because I was totally unaware a) that a census was being carried out; and b) that it was mandatory to complete it. Mrs Elmore says there have been adverts on telly and plastered on billboards but I haven't seen a single one. Anyway, this huge white and lilac envelope arrived in the post a week or so ago. I decided it was ridiculous and threw it in the bin as I do with 90% of the unwanted junk that comes through our letterbox. ]

I'm with you to a certain extent, Marty. I did know that completion of census forms is compulsory but I saw nothing about them on TV because TV is so sod**ng miserable that I don't watch it. Billboards are for Honda and other money grabbers - nothing about the census that I have seen. Nowt in the newspapers either - the on-line versions don't carry adverts so far as I am aware (and certainly not the Aude vbersion of La Depeche.). The only thing I have seen (apart from the forms) was this thread.

As for when I got it the instruction leaflet was a load of nonsensical characters - why can't they write in the form of proper English advocated by the Plain English brigade?.

All in all these Americans have made a pretty awful job so far and should repay at least the entire advertising spend. The jury is our regarding the rest of their fees and ........

marty wrote:

englishangel wrote: Not everyone

b) has a car with a number plate

?????!!! Surely even the queen has to comply with the laws of the road and put a number plate on her car? Or at least she has her butler do it...

There was a Morecambe and Wise film (The Intelligence Men?) where they are working as traffic wardens and Eric goes after the Queen's car because it has no license plate.

I think I read she doesn't have to tax it either but I actually meant not everyone has a car.