Veteran's Cards
Purveyor of Egg Liqueur to Lucifer
Discounts gained last weekend:
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard:
£20 Ultimate Explorer ticket (or 30% off an Ultimate Explorer ticket for Veterans and up to 4 guests.)
Spinnaker:
10% Discount on all tickets purchased (in addition to any other discounts also applied to accompanying persons eg blue light, student).
Army Flying Museum:
Free entry for me with Vets card, no discounts for better half, despite Blue Light/NHS/Student cards (she didn’t go in, coffee and iPad instead).
Weekend savings:
(we were going anyway and online bookings would save more).
£33.50 (Portsmouth)
£20 (AFM)
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard:
£20 Ultimate Explorer ticket (or 30% off an Ultimate Explorer ticket for Veterans and up to 4 guests.)
Spinnaker:
10% Discount on all tickets purchased (in addition to any other discounts also applied to accompanying persons eg blue light, student).
Army Flying Museum:
Free entry for me with Vets card, no discounts for better half, despite Blue Light/NHS/Student cards (she didn’t go in, coffee and iPad instead).
Weekend savings:
(we were going anyway and online bookings would save more).
£33.50 (Portsmouth)
£20 (AFM)
Discounts gained last weekend:
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard:
£20 Ultimate Explorer ticket (or 30% off an Ultimate Explorer ticket for Veterans and up to 4 guests.)
Spinnaker:
10% Discount on all tickets purchased (in addition to any other discounts also applied to accompanying persons eg blue light, student).
Army Flying Museum:
Free entry for me with Vets card, no discounts for better half, despite Blue Light/NHS/Student cards (she didn’t go in, coffee and iPad instead).
Weekend savings:
(we were going anyway and online bookings would save more).
£33.50 (Portsmouth)
£20 (AFM)
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard:
£20 Ultimate Explorer ticket (or 30% off an Ultimate Explorer ticket for Veterans and up to 4 guests.)
Spinnaker:
10% Discount on all tickets purchased (in addition to any other discounts also applied to accompanying persons eg blue light, student).
Army Flying Museum:
Free entry for me with Vets card, no discounts for better half, despite Blue Light/NHS/Student cards (she didn’t go in, coffee and iPad instead).
Weekend savings:
(we were going anyway and online bookings would save more).
£33.50 (Portsmouth)
£20 (AFM)
Found an indirect use for it. The veterans card allowed me to get a blue light card (£4.99), the blue light card was then linked to my Asda rewards card so I now get 10% off food. I'm up to £4.16p after 2 weeks so I'm giddy.
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Talk Shy tall knight, the Blue Light card also gives you a free Esso Fuel card, normally £43 per year. It gives 3 p off a litre of unleaded, 4 p off a litre of diesel, 5p off a litre of unleaded plus and 6p off a litre of super diesel. Pay at the counter, then Esso takes it about three days later as a debit.
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Talk Shy tall knight, the Blue Light card also gives you a free Esso Fuel card, normally £43 per year. It gives 3 p off a litre of unleaded, 4 p off a litre of diesel, 5p off a litre of unleaded plus and 6p off a litre of super diesel. Pay at the counter, then Esso takes it about three days later as a debit.
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I see from the Electoral Commission web site that the veterans card is not listed as one of the government issued photo IDs acceptable for proof of identity when voting. On the other hand it did get me a useful discount at the Kennedy Space Center last week!
Talk Shy tall knight, the Blue Light card also gives you a free Esso Fuel card, normally £43 per year. It gives 3 p off a litre of unleaded, 4 p off a litre of diesel, 5p off a litre of unleaded plus and 6p off a litre of super diesel. Pay at the counter, then Esso takes it about three days later as a debit.
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In the usual kicking the can down the road mode, adding MOD Form 100 to the list of accepted IDS will only occur when all pre-2018 veterans who ask for one have got it. As it would be an SI under the affirmative procedure (presumably as proof of ID for voting is controversial), I can't see it being actioned in the near or even medium future. I suspect it was left out by oversight or sloppy drafting.
Rosie Duffield MP, Labour, Canterbury
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the validity of veterans' ID cards as a form of identification in the May local elections.
Dr Andrew Murrison, Conservative, South West Wiltshire (Parliamentary Under-Secretary)
Answered on 23 March 2023
Currently, Veterans’ Recognition Cards are not on the list of approved photographic ID for use in polling stations. This list is set in secondary legislation and further legislation would be required to add the Veterans’ Recognition Cards. A comprehensive list of the accepted forms of identification is available at the following link: https://www.electoralcommission.org....forms-photo-id
Consideration will be given in the future to including the Veteran’s Recognition Card on the list of approved ID for use in polling stations, once the rollout of cards to pre-2018 veterans is complete. However, in the meantime, there is a wide range of different types of ID on the list, so a lack of Recognition Card should not act as a barrier to veterans being able to vote.
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on the validity of veterans' ID cards as a form of identification in the May local elections.
Dr Andrew Murrison, Conservative, South West Wiltshire (Parliamentary Under-Secretary)
Answered on 23 March 2023
Currently, Veterans’ Recognition Cards are not on the list of approved photographic ID for use in polling stations. This list is set in secondary legislation and further legislation would be required to add the Veterans’ Recognition Cards. A comprehensive list of the accepted forms of identification is available at the following link: https://www.electoralcommission.org....forms-photo-id
Consideration will be given in the future to including the Veteran’s Recognition Card on the list of approved ID for use in polling stations, once the rollout of cards to pre-2018 veterans is complete. However, in the meantime, there is a wide range of different types of ID on the list, so a lack of Recognition Card should not act as a barrier to veterans being able to vote.
Looks good, but just checked my local area to find that super unleaded at Esso is 7p per litre more expensive than the cheapest brand, so still 2ppl more expensive with the Esso card. Better savings on my diesel though; Esso only 2ppl more expensive so I could save 2ppl with the Esso card.
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Conscription?
I didt submit earlier my observation thet applying for a Vet Card did give data of interest to those seeking tranches for conscription
Currrent political gossip is bouncing around the topic!
Those skilled , fairly recently retired, still living in UK. reasonably fit etc, might see their profiles suspiciously congruent with some stated requirements concerning possible selective conscription.......
Hmmm
Currrent political gossip is bouncing around the topic!
Those skilled , fairly recently retired, still living in UK. reasonably fit etc, might see their profiles suspiciously congruent with some stated requirements concerning possible selective conscription.......
Hmmm
Last edited by Haraka; 6th Apr 2024 at 06:07.
I wondered who would be the first to think of that!