Isles of Scilly closed to recreational yachts

Old Bumbulum said:
No need to insult - nor to use words you do not understand. The ability to tell the difference between compulsion and a request has nothng whatsoever to do with casuistry, it is merely the understanding ofvery very simple english words which was all I was pointing out and is most certaily not splitting hairs.
Casuistry, if any has been applied here, is in the hands of those who lectured me about the nature of one's welcome in the islands, something I had made no comment on whatsoever and is competely unconnected with wilfully misunderstanding simple english.

Headling a "Ban" when in fact it is a request not to visit is, in most reasonable peoples' minds most certainly faking the news.
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When you get to St Mary's, do send me a postcard.
 
Not another one!
Don't you do plain english either?

Whatever gave you the idea I would want to go there when requested not to? I wouldn't dream of it.
Not everyone behaves in the way you seem to naturally assume, leading me to think that's the way you naturally behave yourself.
Its a bit of a give-away!
Glass houses - stones...
 
Just don't, whatever you do, turn up with a Cook Islands Ensign. It goes down about as well with the Scillonians as a monkey does in Hartlepool.
 
If there are no cases then I get it. But by allowing residents to return on the Scillonian they are mad, they might as well have an open door policy. It only takes one resident to bring the virus in. Once it is in everyone will get it.
 
They should adopt the system they are enforcing in Madeira. All returning residents - no tourists anymore- are compelled to spend 14 days quarantine in one room in an empty hotel. Meals delivered to outside the door 3 times a day and clean towels etc once a week. Aircraft are met at the airport by the Security police and all passengers conveyed by coach to the hotel which is guarded by police.
They instituted this because the previous order to self isolate in their own home for 14 days was being ignored by some.
 
dom said:
You've seen 'Saint Mary's Airport' and the 'Tresco Heliport', right?
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Indeed, it was merely a suggestion for an ideal, but the police force on Scilly is tiny and it obviously couldn’t cope. Just thought peeps might be interested.
 
Leighb said:
Indeed, it was merely a suggestion for an ideal, but the police force on Scilly is tiny and it obviously couldn’t cope. Just thought peeps might be interested.
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Vaguely related, when we visited St Mary's last summer it coincided with one of the day(s) the local could take their driving tests there. It appears the examiners fly in from Exeter.

Doubt you can much faster than 30 on St Mary's roads..
 
Little Grebe said:
Vaguely related, when we visited St Mary's last summer it coincided with one of the day(s) the local could take their driving tests there. It appears the examiners fly in from Exeter.

Doubt you can much faster than 30 on St Mary's roads..
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Having cycled round St Mary's (again last summer) I suspect that any local would have a shock when they come to drive on the mainland.
 
Boathook said:
Having cycled round St Mary's (again last summer) I suspect that any local would have a shock when they come to drive on the mainland.
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For starters they would have to get use too, Brakes, vehicles with an mot, not being able to see the road through the floor. tyres with some tread on them. nevermind roundabouts and dual carriageways!
 
david_bagshaw said:
For starters they would have to get use too, Brakes, vehicles with an mot, not being able to see the road through the floor. tyres with some tread on them. nevermind roundabouts and dual carriageways!
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I realize you're joking!
I thought the Isles of Scilly were part of the UK (unlike the Isle of Man and the Channel Isles), and hence subject to the same legislation about tax, MOT etc. as the rest of us. Tax and MOT are very efficiently policed by the DVLA in my neck of the woods :( I suppose there's less chance of being caught by ANPR cameras.
 
AntarcticPilot said:
I realize you're joking!
I thought the Isles of Scilly were part of the UK (unlike the Isle of Man and the Channel Isles), and hence subject to the same legislation about tax, MOT etc. as the rest of us. Tax and MOT are very efficiently policed by the DVLA in my neck of the woods :( I suppose there's less chance of being caught by ANPR cameras.
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I don't think that he was joking! I can't find out anything about MOT on the Isles of Scilly. Commercial need a test once a year where an examiner goes to the Isles once a year to carry out. This is all I can find out at present.
 
AntarcticPilot said:
I thought the Isles of Scilly were part of the UK (unlike the Isle of Man and the Channel Isles), and hence subject to the same legislation about
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As far as I can see, the Isles of Scilly do not have an test station and are cars there are exempt from the requirement to have an MOT. From the list on the back of form V112

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If you take a car to the mainland from an exampted island you have to get an MOT, but some Scottish islands (and Scilly?) have an additional exemption for goods vehicles based there, which do not need and MOT even if they visit the mainland.
 
Boathook said:
I don't think that he was joking! I can't find out anything about MOT on the Isles of Scilly. Commercial need a test once a year where an examiner goes to the Isles once a year to carry out. This is all I can find out at present.
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Are you quite sure about that? Commercial MOT tests need lots of equipment installed, which is why goods vehicles based on Scottish Islands are exempt.
 
JumbleDuck said:
As far as I can see, the Isles of Scilly do not have an test station and are cars there are exempt from the requirement to have an MOT. From the list on the back of form V112

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If you take a car to the mainland from an exampted island you have to get an MOT, but some Scottish islands (and Scilly?) have an additional exemption for goods vehicles based there, which do not need and MOT even if they visit the mainland.
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And Rathlin in Northern Ireland. Also Inverie on the mainland although the situation there is a bit different as the roads are not publicly owned.
 
Having no MOT is that not blooming dangerous , it allows vehicles which are in such a bad way , try telling some one who gets whacked by a car who's brakes do not work , or the wing flys of and hits you , ah happy lock down every one
 
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