oh goody

[lambert]

seems we will have to insure cars even if they are off the road and not being driven, according to radio1.

yipeee!

[Rich_P]

Further legalised robbery.

[carbore]

Radio 1 is not known for the intelligence of its Journos and they seem to have to emphasise almost every other word.

Read below in a fashionably regional accent.

"BAD MEN have ROBBED a PENSIONER in SCOTLAND. POLICE EXPERTS say they DROVE OFF in a 4x4"

[Disco Matt]

The only fashionable accents for Radio 1 seem to be "Sarf Lundun" or estuary english. They also seem to have trouble with:

Life outside the M25 (well, to be fair, that goes for most supposedly national media)

News reports that aren't aimed at toddlers

[Disco-andy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4288895.stm

"Owning an uninsured vehicle should become a criminal offence, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has said."

Looks like the insurance brokers after our money again.  I would like to hope that a sorn vehicle would not need insurance, if it came in.

[lee celtic]

Stick it on bricks and call it spares  :twisted:

[Range Rover Blues]

They'll have to back down just like they did on the ownership tax, sorry SORN

I wouldn't mind if you could insure a car as off the road too, I have a laid up policy on my cherished Escort but that doen't cost me a lot anyway.  Once again however it would appear that we will all be victimised in the name of catching a few crooks.  Meanwhile nothing will be done to actually stop them driving cars that aren't insured or registered in their own names.

Let's face it, the poilice now know if a car is insured as soon as they see it, their computers inform them without them even checking, so if they can't enforce the current law effectively then all this will do is line pockets as people have said.

How proposterous to force up to insure something just because we own it.  The only slight justification (a very slim one) is what happens is a SORNed car is stolen and hits someone?

But if I'm going to be FORCED to insure it, chances are that insurance demands it's MOT'd and roadworthy, sod it, I'll be driving it around then.  Where will this stand the Gov't in it's hopes to get us all on the bus.

[Rant mode off]

[Sider]

If a SORNd car is stolen and hits someone, it would be treated under the Victims of Crime Compensation Scheme. In other words, we would pay the bill from our taxes, instead of making the thieving barsteward work free while in prison to foot the bill.

[hrh_dave]

As with most things from the government only the headlines, and why wont my lighter work this morning, sorry back on topic, from a press release get noticed. Reading further into this the exclusion is SORN vehicles, so as long as you comply with current UK law that a vehicle that is not taxed is on a SORN you will not have to pay insurance. All they seem to be doing is fully linking DVLA and insurance company records so that they can see exactly who is not insured, not that the police cant do that anyway.....

[Range Rover Blues]

So if they can do it already why the new law?


So they can FINE us for doing nothing wrong, that's why.