Latest Labour Insurance/Tax plums!!!

I suspect that many guys in that position will be running with trade policies anyway, when I had more cars than I could keep track of thats what I did.

Oh god!

insuring a laid up vehicle isn't too much IIRC and quite wise, often ok under house insurance, but this sounds like another step too far for more lazy policing!

Its like all untaxed cars need to be SORN. Because the system to spot if people are tax dodging reuires continual taxing, and SORN applies as a tax. Must be a similar "system need" for somethign to automatically fine road users for lapsing insurance or something.

Who thinks up this curse word?

Time to kick these muppets out!

So you say but I wonder if anyone else can do a better job...

The LibDems are anti-car, currently backing a private membbers bill which will effectively outlaw motorcycle racing in the UK, and have no proven track record in government.

The conservatives f**ked the country up royally last time they were in and I'm not convinced they haven't shed all their bad old ways yet. lus SORN, road pricing and continual insurance were all tory ideas back in the mid 90s anyway....

I'm not a great fan of Blair's style but this country has had about the 10 best years economically and in terms of stability of services and a whole range of things. I'd want to know what the alternatives are before risking going back to the days of 3.5 million unemployed, 15% interest rates, national strikes, army on the streets, rioting, etc.

Stalin wouldn't have introduced this. he'd have banned people from owning cars. Then he's have shot them and stolen their farms...

Exactly what kind of insurance do you have to have for a SORN'd car?! Surely plenty of garaged projects are covered under household policies?
Like Pog said, what kind of policy would cover the "risks" of a car sat on a driveway!?

I've got an idea: Seeing as there's lots of street crime around, I propose a 9pm military curfew. Anyone seen out after this time will be arrested and taken to a Gulag. Should cut crime I reckon.

I think even if there was only 1 untaxed/uninsured motorist rumbled every year you would get this guff about tightening up laws to crack down on them. You would think with the new database and camera technologies available monitoring every one all the time, that driving without tax or insurance would be so difficult as to be not worth the bother. I certainly would not fancy it as I am certain you would get busted within a day or two if you went on any A-roads.

Yet you hear over and over about how these people are a menace who must be stopped as they are 'costing the country and well-behaved motorists millions' Well what I wanna know is WHY? Now that everyone's tax MOT and insurance is on a massive govt database, and the coppers are scanning everyones reg plates and tracking their movements 24-7, and seizing/crushing cars they find are uninsured etc how come these 'menaces' are still out there? Is this technology not working or something? Either it is working and numbers of shonky motorists are right down, or it is not working and we should be questioning why we are being monitored for no benefit.

I suspect these kinds of drivers are simply not out there TBH. Lets see some statistics for numbers of un taxed/uninsured cars on the road every year for the last 15 years or so. I'd bet £100 that they are a tiny tiny fraction of what they used to be.

NB I'd also like to see some stats for folk driving cars which are 'insured', but not for them. Like some barry tw@t taking his mates Corsa for a spin. You never hear anyone even acknowledge that this kind of circumstance exists. I bet 50% of these 'uninsured drivers' fall into this category and would thus be totally unaffected by reg plate scanners, compulsory insurance etc etc.

I reckon its simply that someone in goverment has two numbers in fromt of them. There are 40million cars in the UK, and maybe theres 30 million insurance policies. GOOD GOD! 10 million cars (or 1 in 4 if you prefer) are UNINSURED!!!!!!

By the time they work out that those uninsured cars are trade stock, untaxed, projects, covered on classic or fleet policies, etc. some other junior minister has picked up that job in a minor reshuffle and "good lord, 1 in 4 cars are uninsured!!!!"

I heard a stat on the TV that tghey reckon 1 in 5 cars are uninsured! Thats like 800,000. I can't believe that.... it just doesn;t stand to logic or reason that these 1 in 5 cars are in use or on the raod.

The way the news media goes on about it you'd think we were swamped with Kosovans bent on the destruction of the British Empire itself and our beloved queen with their untaxed and uninsuired cars, crack dens and underage prostitutes. 1 in 3 British people is now a Kosovan drug dealing prostitute with no insurance!!!!!

I believe a lot of the "Uninsured" drivers come from the various barrys who have their mum insyure their Combat Corsa in their name as its 100000% cheaper to do that, those who don't declare their modifications, don't declare that they had a DUI conviction 2 years ago, etc. etc. or are just driving someone elses car thinking "I can do this because I have fully comp cover on mine so its legal" etc etc