UK to axe ‘insane’ EU law that would have seen around £50 added to ride-on mower premiums annually – in move hailed as a Brexit dividend

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1. I bet the people excited about this often say cyclists should be forced to have insurance

2. Why didn’t they put this on the side of their Brexit Bus?

3. Wow. What a great Brexit Dividend. Truly this is what my life needed at this point in time.

4. I mean yer, this is not a brexit thing we have done this for all sorts of rules for the last 30+ years.

5. I’ve never even seen one of these here.
   I guess a few golf clubs can make a bit more money.

   Fuck golf too btw.

6. Let me be the first to admit that I was wrong about Brexit…

7. The cost of running a sprawling estate just got a few quid cheaper – truly the British people never had it so good.

8. I would happily poo on the freshly cut lawn,jeezus

9. Relates to this court case:

   “The pertinent facts were that Mr Vnuk, a farmworker, was knocked off a ladder in a farmyard by a trailer attached to a tractor, which was reversing across the yard. Mr Vnuk sought damages against the defendant insurer of the tractor.

   The Slovenian courts ruled against Mr Vnuk. The reasoning was that a compulsory insurance policy under Slovenian law for a motor vehicle covered the use of the tractor as a means of transport but not damage caused when a tractor was used as a machine or propulsion device.”

   [Source](https://www.weightmans.com/insights/the-implications-of-the-vnuk-case/)

   [Background reading](https://www.mib.org.uk/media-centre/thought-leadership/2017/april/vnuk-the-unintended-consequences/)

10. I don’t know anyone who owns enough garden space to need a ride on.

11. Because what really matters to the millions not eating properly or struggling to afford energy, rents and other bills is our ride-on mowers

    Get the fuck out lol