Porsche
West Midlands
Kev from B'ham.
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I don't sign petitions, but if I did id be more likley to sign one regarding the MOT exemption. That might make me sound like some sort of enemy, but I just don't understand why old cars don't need an MOT. I agree, I think that the exemption should have been from having to pay for an MOT test, not exemption from the test altogether. That said, the MOT only tests your car for that moment. As soon as you leave the MOT test station a fault that it could fail a test on could occur. Not having an MOT test dosen't excuse you from keeping your car safe and legal.
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aaronb
Part of things
Fezza nearly done
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Jan 30, 2018 17:32:55 GMT
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Done
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Jan 30, 2018 21:08:08 GMT
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Why should the test be free? Why should the tax payer subsidise private motoring?
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Last Edit: Jan 30, 2018 21:09:43 GMT by igor
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Porsche
West Midlands
Kev from B'ham.
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Why should the test be free? Why should the tax payer subsidise private motoring?
Why should road tax be free for these classics too? Maybe it's encouraging people to keep our motoring heritage alive? That, plus the Classic car sector worth £5.5bn to British economy.
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Last Edit: Jan 31, 2018 9:58:22 GMT by Porsche
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Jan 31, 2018 12:26:16 GMT
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sounds like gibberish to me... there must be plenty of other issues that wold be better served by a petition? maybe to actually spend all the taxation wedge collected for the maintenance of roads actually on roads rather than funding lgbtvbgt (or whatever acronym is in use today) hang-gliding clubs etc! There was a petition last year (or perhaps 2016) to try to force the government to use VED / Road Tax income on the roads instead of just sending it to central treasury. Lots of people were signing it, I refused on the basis that exactly that measure was announced in the 2015 budget, for implementation by 2020. So it gets to the magic number where it has to be debated in Parliament, and we waste MPs time by having to talk about something that's already happened. I'd like to think it would be rejected before it got that far, of course. But I got some quite nasty comments about why I wouldn't sign it. I sometimes think these petitions are too easy to start. I agree with the earlier post - these aren't government schemes so legislation isn't likely to happen and would probably be unworkable. It's just an extension of people who comment about classics left rotting and how there should be a way to force the owner to sell it, or examine the owners motive for leaving it in that state. As frustrating as it is, these people tend to have what they think is a good reason that an outsider might not be able to fathom.
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Last Edit: Jan 31, 2018 12:28:04 GMT by droopsnoot
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