So rather than reduce the cost of public transport or do anything to reduce fuel bills we can enjoy fewer safe cars on the road.. great..
Tory mp thinks we help by letting them save 54 pounds a year via no mot normal adult will get anyway as its their own/ family safety. I wouldnt dream of not getting it done.
What a fucking stupid idea.
My MOT is this Saturday, £34. If you can’t afford that small amount each year to ensure your car is in safe working order, you can’t afford a car.
I’m handy with the spanners and keep my cars in good order, but most of my cars have at least one thing that still requires attention.
I know so many people that will never check their brake pads for example, until they’re making a funny noise. The amount of cars I see with one working headlight / tail light is shocking as well.
Nero fiddled as Rome burns seems very appropriate here. “Fiddle” is what I describe this as.
Ignoring the fact rules on MOTs and child supervision are there for a reason. This is going to see an annual cost reduction of just £25 a year for the MOT (costs £50 quid over two years now), and then going to be reliant on nurseries passing on any cost savings to existing customers (when my business makes cost savings, you can assume the very first first thing I’m going to do is make up some precious margin lol).
Oh, you now have also cut the number of staff needed by both garages and childcare establishments, so a non-negligible number of people will lose their jobs now. Which will exacerbate their own cost of living problems, andddd cost the taxpayer money. All whilst making negligible difference to the wider public.
The thing that is going to fix the cost of living crisis is actually going after the cause. The fact that wholesale gas is 4x higher, wholesale electricity is 3x higher, than this time last year.
But the government actually doing its job and intervening in the economy for the good of its people is the antithesis of conservative (little c) thought, so we have the standard safety blanket of blaming everything on it not being for profit, and elf and safety gone mad. Things are actually bad enough that it’s not just the bottom per cent who are getting hurt here, and the Tories can’t afford to simply fiddle with rules anymore lol.
Why are they just tinkering around the edges, an MOT is only £30, it’s literally nothing compared to running a car or in fact any other bill.
Its like they’re doing the least possible to say they’ve done something
I don’t see how the change in childcare rules will result in cheaper childcare, all the nursery will do is take on more children for more money and keep the costs the same?
So you relax the MOT rules meaning you can now go 2 years before needing an MOT test. If youre still driving the same distance on the same roads, the same things will need replacing when the MOT is finally done, so aside the tiny price of the test itself (at least in relative terms to the other costs of owning a car) the costs are the same? I don’t get how this is meant to help.
If you can afford a Chelsea Tractor be it outright or on finance, you can afford an MOT test.
I wonder if anyone has suggested revising the recent increase of NI contributions?
Honestly this is a good thing. MOTs are a con anyway and issues can be found/not found depending on the tester that day. No doubt if they move to 2 year tests a lot of garages will all of a sudden find issues that wouldn’t normally be flagged up.
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So rather than reduce the cost of public transport or do anything to reduce fuel bills we can enjoy fewer safe cars on the road.. great..
Tory mp thinks we help by letting them save 54 pounds a year via no mot normal adult will get anyway as its their own/ family safety. I wouldnt dream of not getting it done.
What a fucking stupid idea.
My MOT is this Saturday, £34. If you can’t afford that small amount each year to ensure your car is in safe working order, you can’t afford a car.
I’m handy with the spanners and keep my cars in good order, but most of my cars have at least one thing that still requires attention.
I know so many people that will never check their brake pads for example, until they’re making a funny noise. The amount of cars I see with one working headlight / tail light is shocking as well.
Nero fiddled as Rome burns seems very appropriate here. “Fiddle” is what I describe this as.
Ignoring the fact rules on MOTs and child supervision are there for a reason. This is going to see an annual cost reduction of just £25 a year for the MOT (costs £50 quid over two years now), and then going to be reliant on nurseries passing on any cost savings to existing customers (when my business makes cost savings, you can assume the very first first thing I’m going to do is make up some precious margin lol).
Oh, you now have also cut the number of staff needed by both garages and childcare establishments, so a non-negligible number of people will lose their jobs now. Which will exacerbate their own cost of living problems, andddd cost the taxpayer money. All whilst making negligible difference to the wider public.
The thing that is going to fix the cost of living crisis is actually going after the cause. The fact that wholesale gas is 4x higher, wholesale electricity is 3x higher, than this time last year.
But the government actually doing its job and intervening in the economy for the good of its people is the antithesis of conservative (little c) thought, so we have the standard safety blanket of blaming everything on it not being for profit, and elf and safety gone mad. Things are actually bad enough that it’s not just the bottom per cent who are getting hurt here, and the Tories can’t afford to simply fiddle with rules anymore lol.
Why are they just tinkering around the edges, an MOT is only £30, it’s literally nothing compared to running a car or in fact any other bill.
Its like they’re doing the least possible to say they’ve done something
I don’t see how the change in childcare rules will result in cheaper childcare, all the nursery will do is take on more children for more money and keep the costs the same?
So you relax the MOT rules meaning you can now go 2 years before needing an MOT test. If youre still driving the same distance on the same roads, the same things will need replacing when the MOT is finally done, so aside the tiny price of the test itself (at least in relative terms to the other costs of owning a car) the costs are the same? I don’t get how this is meant to help.
If you can afford a Chelsea Tractor be it outright or on finance, you can afford an MOT test.
I wonder if anyone has suggested revising the recent increase of NI contributions?
Honestly this is a good thing. MOTs are a con anyway and issues can be found/not found depending on the tester that day. No doubt if they move to 2 year tests a lot of garages will all of a sudden find issues that wouldn’t normally be flagged up.