Agree with all the long-suffering Tony has said, plus would add that you don't need to be resident for (road) tax purposes, just like you don't for MOT purposes.

As for the matters which are supposed to be hush hush, maybe its best if you don't explain on the open public forum why you wanted them to be hush hush

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I'm still
Got to love this Alice in Wonderland thread and all who post in here.

That doesn't change the facts of course, as well explained herein ----------- how many times now??????????

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Absolutely, poor Rory must be feeling like he's morphed from a HUBB-er into a care worker!!

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Worse to come ..... he probably will have to meet this dude.

That will require self-control beyond the call of duty.

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This thread is becoming my daily entertainment. I am awaiting the next chapter in this soap opera.

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It might be ending for me...

There was a siren outside and I saw some men in white coats get out of an ambulance and look up at my window.

Now there is a knocking at the door ....

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Indeedy, and he hasn't even reached the UK yet. Something tells me this comedy of errors (or farce, more like) is far from over!

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Yes, I'm wondering how well the OP will cope with visas, border crossings, carnets, dodgy Police etc. It should be an interesting story.

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Probably wise to check back twice a day now; there is growing interest in this subject, and the story has barely started.

'cos there's nothing for a transit van.

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Well if I don't have to be a resident for ROAD tax purposes, Why do I have to provide a UK residential address to BUY insurance (3rd party) and to get a Tax Disc.

this is still a long way from being all Sorted.
So far ALL I have is the loan of a UK address, But no Insurance, NO Road Tax or MOT inspection.

An impressive effort by all concerned. However, I'm noticing that this doesn't seem to be bringing out the best in any of the participants (except, I have to say, St. Rory). Maybe think about giving it a rest. Going around in repeated circles doesn't seem to be helping much.

Just a thought.

Mark

First, I have edited my post of yesterday to provide a more accurate description of what Rory is doing over here to assist you.
Nothing is new in that; it goes over earlier explanations but I was not fully correct in the way that I summarised what Rory is doing.
Please take a look back at post number 86 (or was it 84? I forget!).

Your query here about insurance is fair enough if you don't have a lot of criminality etc etc in Australia associated with fraudulent insurance claims + the thing I think I touched on earlier = out and out driving on the roads without any insurance. You could do your own research about insurance fraud here in the UK e.g. whiplash injury claims for a start, and you might be shocked, there again, you might not.
Therefore, the insurance underwriters (I don't think we have mentioned them previously) and the insurance brokers are trying, I say that again, trying to cut down on such criminality by ever tightening procedures including sharing data bases of known criminal acts blah, blah blah - this is on the news in the UK every second day of the week + other aspects about road law (check out what one of our politicians and his ex-wife are accused of right now in the UK courts).

The above is a bit of background tittle tattle; the short answer is because the insurance documents have to be posted to you, somewhere, for which you need a postal address.

FWIW, I was reading an interesting blog about learning to fly, and the chief flying instructor (CFI) makes quite a few references in there to "shrugging off" irrelevant questions while in the air - basically the CFI says to the trainee pilots get on with the job in hand and stop asking irrelevant questions that don't contribute to achieving the task of landing the micro-light and walking away in one piece - worth thinking about?

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I have arbitrarily pruned this tread back a full page and will now lock it as it's has got too silly for words.

All of you, take your toys home, clean and polish them, change the oils and filters, and come back when you are prepared to share and play nice.

BR

Nigel in NZ

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