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For me it's that the TRR management truly believed (and still believe) that the way they treated Darren was justified. And I'm sorry to those members that still pay their dues and post on the forum - I'm sure they have invested a lot more time and effort in the club than I have but by continuing to support the club and ignore such a gross slur on a members character (in print, to the entire membership), they are indirectly condoning the TRR managements behaviour. I see they have changed the ridiculous, draconian rules now, but until they issue a formal, heart felt apology to Darren, published in TRaction, I won't support the organisation with a penny more of my money. My membership runs out on June 30th and I've already cancelled the direct debit and taken the TR Register "tax disc" off my car. I'll stick to local, smaller classic car clubs from now on. I've never met Darren - We disagreed on a few things on the forum (but agreed on many others), but I always respected what he had to say because it was well reasoned and thought out. I might not agree but I could always appreciate where he was coming from. Personally, I think that scared the TRR management - they had someone in a position of authority (a GL) that could make a reasoned argument and had ideas of his own that was putting himself up as a Director.

Paul, just make sure you keep a regular copy offsite as well as your NAS if you go that way. At a minimum remove a copy as often as the period that you would generate enough data to cry if you lost it. Backing up every day to a NAS is fine until some bugger nicks it, a power spike blows the drives or your office goes up in flames. My advise would be to have a NAS onsite and pay a few quid to back it up with a cloud based storage plan. I use Onedrive personally which is 1tb per user but you don't have to think about it - it syncs your files on the fly. They do a business version which MS will upgrade to 5tb if you call them. https://products.office.com/en-US/onedrive-for-business/compare-onedrive-for-business-plans The main advantage of your files in the cloud is that you can access them anywhere. I find this really handy if - it's like having copies on every PC you own.

Paul, we have our main data stored on our server set up in Raid 5 so it's fast and the parity is spread over the discs so if one fails, the data is still available. Replace the failed disc and the missing data is rebuilt automatically from the parity. This is then backed up onto a NAS drive in raid 1 so it is mirrored. Then we also have an offsite backup which uploads any files that have changed on a nightly basis. On site restores are quick so this is why we have the NAS - an offsite backup is great for your last chance saloon but it's very time consuming bringing 4tb of data over ADSL. The offsite backup is the most important as if our office burns down for any reason, (as our server environment is virtualised), we can get back up and running very very quickly (rather than rebuilding and configuring a brand new Server 2016 installation, then bringing your data back in). In practice, we've had our whole server environment (we have 4 servers) back up and running (slowly) on a laptop. It's vital to test your disaster recovery. Nothing focuses your mind on the value of your data more than a crash that involves three hail mary's and an 8 hour sweaty browed restore session. Also, work out how many days worth of backups you need to keep. If your data is overwritten each night but your don't notice an important lost file or corrupt database entry for 4 days, but your NAS drive only holds 3 days of backup, you've lost your data and it will never be recovered. Ask me how I know this! It's a dreadful moment when you notice an error in your ERP database from Monday on a Thursday that requires a restore, but your disks have slowly been filling up over the years so the auto backup, rather than being 7 days worth of data has now reduced to 2.

I think this is the most progressive change in UK politics in ages. Labour is so far to the left now I would never vote for them and the Conservatives are gradually heading more and more to the right under the ERG. JC as PM and Diane Abbot as Home Secretary? Can you imagine the chaos those two would cause? Or JRM as PM? - much as the guy is at least articulate and one of the few politicians to answer a difficult questions with a proper answer, I can't help but think he has his own very singular agenda that has very little to do with the man on the street or what's best for the country (given his suicidal desire to leave with no deal). I've always thought Chuka Umunna was the most sensible Labour politician and had he won his leadership bid (instead of bailing out after 2 days) I'd have been tempted to switch my vote from Tory to Labour (having voted Tory forever). Personally, I hope a load more join the "Independent Group", then the Lib Dems join and there is a real shake up to the political system. As Paul says, too many career MP's in safe seats doing what they're told so they keep their salary and pensions. My politics are pretty much in the middle ground - reward people that help work hard but make sure the welfare system is robust enough for those that find they need it. Maybe this is the group that might be able to do that - I'm watching with interest.

Hi Conrad, nice to see you here! Richard

Hi Rog, it's so simple to resolve that the fact it's taken so long means the BoD don't want to fix it. Open up Alec's Bar to the public - it's a click of a button. Apologise to Darren and get him back in (if he even wants to rejoin m- can't see why he would after the way he's been treated) My membership runs out in June from memory - I haven't seen anything whatsoever to make me think I'd want to rejoin since all the initial hoo hah with Darren. I've already cancelled the direct debit so it will just lapse. In fact, it only got worse since as the impartial group that looked into the whole sorry affair banned him for life. I have heard plenty of talk from a few people but precious little action so far. and it's been months. It's OK to say these things take time but really, they don't at all - it just feels like they're playing lip service to the membership until the whole fuss dies down. Such a shame - I'll keep in touch with the people I've met by email etc but I don't post on the TR Forum and rarely if ever visit it now - on that note, are you doing the New Forest Run again this year Rog?

Paul, this is something that the UK populace just doesn't get. The government has been able to limit immigration from the EU for years but chooses not to as they know immigration benefits the economy. So they keep quiet about this so rising immigration can be blamed on the EU and not their policies. The "new" policy Savid Javid announced yesterday where immigration will be skills tested is madness. We'll always need skilled people from abroad but in my experience, English workers generally don't want to work in McDonalds/KFC, chambermaid in hotels, pick lettuces in fields or work as porters in hospitals etc etc.

I may be way off, but I would suspect that if the TRR offer any form of digital membership they will lose the economies of scale producing and posting the magazine. In other words, they would lose the income/profit from the international members subscriptions (having been reduced) but when they print less magazines, they will pay more per unit. The TRR will also get postage discounts from Royal Mail - my parents run a mail house and they are quite significant discounts. The mail house will do much of the work the sorting office would usually do and charge less for this than the Royal Mail. By reducing the international postage quantity, they will lose the volume discounts. I think this is why the register seems to avoid the topic of digital distribution whenever it comes up.

I hate to say it Peter, but I agree - this was my first thought.

I'm 44 and, having a young family, don't really have the time (or skill) to maintain my TR3 myself. I used to pay the TR Register membership fees as a kind of "tax" for the forum which I read on a daily basis. Since Darrens expulsion from the Register, I'm no longer prepared to pay money to an organisation that treats its members that way. So I've moved over here and bizarrely, this forum seems very open to debate but doesn't have the same "bear pit" feel that At the Bar on the TR Forum did. Alec's Inn was the final nail in the coffin - I know the board changed the name of the members forum but that's behind a paywall - something I can't see Alec agreeing with. So I've moved over here with no intentions of returning. Any changes to the TR Forum are a bit too late to be honest. Closing the door after the horse bolted (or more accurately, trying to close the barn door after the owner has committed arson to his own property).

Quote: "Paul The message on the bus didn't say 'let's spend it all on the NHS instead'" Certainly looks like it did to me. The government have already said the NHS won't see a penny because the £350m a week will need to be spent on duplicating projects like REACH and other regulations we will no longer be part of, but need to comply with to continue to trade with the EU. That and the fact the economy will suffer (everyone has agreed on this) so the £350m most likely will be lost from the economy so not be available to anyone, let alone the NHS. It was a cheap line to get all the Sun readers to back the leavers - and it worked. The problem was it wasn't based on fact so for this reason alone there should be another referendum. The voting populace was sold a bucket of lies. "No deal is better than a bad deal" was another one - that seems to be missing from most politicians vocabulary nowadays.

John, if the UK economy is under pressure post Brexit, the first thing will be to delay any environmental legislation that might be coming in that places financial pressures on business (much like the US is under Trump). While the EU is slow to move (having 27/28 members to get to agree to anything), once legislation is passed members are still bound by its terms regardless of their economic situation. Just look at the Packaging Waste Producer Responsibilities regulation - as a member the UK had to implement it in full. Would the UK have added this significant financial burden on business if the economy was struggling? Or would they hold off if they had the option?

Hahaha, there is so much truth in that statement.

Peter, why not set up a new Wordpress account and start again. It's the biggest blog platform on the web for good reason. You could have another site up an running in 10 minutes, and there are lots of new skins which are widescreen/mobile friendly.

Yeah, you caught me out there. I think I maybe typed that too fast and I was being a bit factitious. It didn't come across as I meant. What I meant was that if I agree with democratic process and (even though I voted remain) accepted the referendum result, if it was just down to tariff's I would accept to leave the EU without any further comment on the matter (not leave in a heartbeat - even I annoyed myself when you pointed out I typed that). On the basis it isn't that simple, I think there is still a debate to be had to protect ourselves from the fall out from leaving that may people (politicians included) don't understand. In reality, I'm very happy to be part of the EU as it stands today. No political system is perfect - I don't understand why people think we're held back by the EU as if our own government will unleash economic prosperity the moment we leave instead of bimbling on as they (and every other economy around the world) do. I think we're been mis-sold the idea of trade deals - the EU (and therefore the UK presently) has many - even with the USA. I don't see a mass influx of business to UK as a result of us leaving. Indeed, someone said we were seen as an English speaking gateway to Europe and I think that rings very true indeed. I went to Lithuania on business last week and I wondered, as I queued for Passport control, if it would be the last time I stood in the EU citizens line. It was quit poignant Just out of interest, with Bath Bomb tariffs at 6.5%, a product that retails at £2.49 would retail for about £2.88 given a 6.5% duty on raw materials and finished products once multiplied up to give distributor and retailers margins. It is significant as the duties get multiplied up the more people that need to make a margin throughout the supply chain. So for example, a typical margin in the gift trade would be 2.4 times cost excluding VAT (eg buy for £1 exc VAT, sell for £2.40 inc. VAT). The more people in the distribution chain, the more expensive that 6.5% gets. So basically, my last post was nonsense. Thanks for pointing that out Paul!