Compulsory insurance

Cheers!

 

Coo. Link please.

Tiff

 

you should be honoured. Of the literally less than 10 ukrm-ers that
know my address, you were the first to come to mind.

 

http://www.vehiclelicence.gov.uk/EvlPortalApp/

"Vehicle Enquiry" button.

 

Not much of an honour bearing in mind the context and also not very accurate
because I can't remember where you live other than somewhere north of
Chiswick.

 

Prison hulks; especially for those who blatantly tax and sorn a vehicle.

 

Ok how about this:

Suppose someone owns a taxed and insured car. He goes out and buys
another car switches his insurance to his new car and taxes it. Now
since he's still got his old car on the road while he's trying to
sell it, still taxed, as soon as he switched his insurance he's
instantly liable for the £100 fine (presumably plus points) even
though he has no intention of driving it (and he can't sorn it
because he can't take it off the road). Thousands of law abiding
citizens could be caught in this trap and I can't see an easy way of
wording the legislation so that they wouldn't (how long do you give
someone to sell the old car - a month, until the tax expires!!). If
they were to let you keep a taxed sorned car on the road how would
that be any different to the situation we have now.

Jim

 

Heh, I loved that one. Wound some poor sap up something rotten with it, but
he swore blind that it was absolutely true. So I asked him if dropping the
motorway speed limit by 20mph would mean there would never ever be an
accident again. The twat.

 

we had the "Confidential Telephone" back in the 70s.

 

Mathematically not quite true[1], but I take your point

[1] Keep reducing a number by 5% and you'll never get to zero. You
will get to < 1, tho.
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It does. I can see it right now on my policy.

 

Now that I see it has the SORN exemption I dont see any need to
object.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember saying
something like:

Most policies seem to not have it, though.

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Jim Ingram wrote

This is probably true and I don't recall seeing sir.tony ranting about
it and he is ukrm's resident expert on these matters.

 

vehicle.

I seem to recall the penalty for making a false SORN statement is up
to a £1000 fine and not all magistrates or petty bureaucrats possess
common sense. Not everyone in the UK has access to offroad parking. I
personally don't see why someone shouldn't be allowed to keep a taxed
car on the road while they try to find a buyer for it, having
purchase a new car and switched their insurance policy. As it stands
the proposed legislation would prevent that. I suppose you might
argue that any vehicle on the road needs third party insurance but I
doubt parked cars cause a significant number (if any) accidents.

Jim

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Andy Wegg"

I'm wondering if it's simply the latest in a long series of measures
from an undeclared anti-car element in the govt. Make it more difficult
and expensive to keep cars on the road and the numbers might drop. The
bugger is, of course, that bikes will be affected with the introduction
of prissy little laws of this type.

Fuckin' carrot-chewing cyclists.

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Or even to make the laws so arcane that it's almost impossible not to slip
up and "contribute" to the govt's upkeep.

Display your insurance, MOT and tax within 3 seconds of being asked while
standing on one leg and squinting or another arab bites the dust.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember TOG@toil,

Heh. You've just reminded me... I saw that airheaded bint Melinda
Messenger on the box this morning... she made some comment about it
being a good thing that yon woman was done for eating an apple while
driving, for it was likely that anyone doing so would be dangerous.

The stupid, vacuous, empty-headed tart.

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Grimly Curmudgeon wrote

Yebbut there have already been a lot of benefits to the gummint from the
stuff they have done already. Blur popped back to the country for an
hour or two to do PM's question time the other day and he let slip that
what they had done already was not only causing a huge increase in
revues that couldn't really be called taxation but also a measurable
reduction in other crime. They only have to harp on this to the
30odd% of the population who actually bother to vote and it is gonna
happen some more.

Only half of them, and only in my dreams.

 

It's not anti-car; more make our public services run on a shoe string and
self financing to keep tax down/pay for the guns we need with the added
bonus of much more accurate, accessible, population data.

If the current trend within opposition parties and the press to bang on
about overpaid and over pampered civil servants (the majority of whom
aren't Sir Humphrey but clerks in the dole or DVLA offices - neither over
paid or pampered). Expect to pay for more and more services that once
were free as 'inefficient' public bodies attempt to balance the books.