After Guido revealed thousands have been handed free luxury cars for ailments including “tennis elbow,” “frozen shoulder,” and “failure to thrive,” outrage has rippled through politicians, the press and taxpayers alike. Labour is still refusing to review the scheme…
Nigel Fletcher, CEO of the Motability Foundation, has now complained about media coverage of the scheme as “hostile” and “harmful,” grumbling about an “unprecedented level of misinformed, misrepresented and often hostile” narrative. According to Fletcher, the cars are “not a luxury”…
Now, a website called Motability Check has surfaced – letting users plug in number plates to see if a car’s funded by the taxpayer. A simple tool for a bit of long-overdue transparency…
Dignitaries swiftly joined the meltdown. Work and Pensions Minister Baroness Sherlock claimed she was “shocked” by the site’s existence, while crossbench peer Baroness Grey-Thompson described it as “terrifying” and “despicable,” declaring it “crosses a line to incitement”. The pearl-clutching continues, but the scandal rolls on…
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”