CAN there be a greater example of how our welfare system has spiralled out of control than the grotesque monster that Motability has become?
For decades the scheme provided a lifeline for profoundly disabled people.
But since Covid, Motability has been allowed to mushroom into a massive industry way past its original remit.
A system designed to help the most vulnerable use their Government PIP payments has now warped into a £7billion company supplying one in five new cars in Britain. How?
Because thousands claiming to have issues such as anxiety have been allowed to sign up for luxury BMWs and Mercedes 4x4s.
Taxpayers are now even coughing up for people who say they are depressed to claim free driving lessons.
The Sun is NOT suggesting genuinely disabled people shouldn’t be protected.
But Motability has been corrupted beyond recognition by hordes of obvious scammers.
Labour must ignore the hand-wringers, concentrate on the genuinely needy.
And end this insanity once and for all.
Net Zero growth
RACHEL Reeves talks a good game on growth.
But after hitting business with a jobs tax and punishing workplace reforms, the Chancellor finds she hasn’t got any.
Rachel Reeves needs to stop whacking taxes on families and businesses[/caption]
Hardly good news when debt has ballooned and billions for defence spending is urgently needed.
She’s right to try to slash the burdensome red tape unnecessarily tying up businesses.
But here’s a couple of bigger ideas for the Chancellor to add to her growth wish list:
Axe Ed Miliband’s ruinous Net Zero targets.
And stop whacking taxes on families and business.
Helldorado
THE Brits love Spain and for decades have been welcomed by friendly Spanish locals keen to keep their economy afloat.
But militant left-wingers and eco nutters are plotting another summer of protests, including airport blockades.
Anti-tourist protesters vow to flood Ibiza again this summer[/caption]
Jetting off to Greece or Portugal might end up a lot safer.
It’s mind-bogglingly dumb to bite the tourist hands that feed.
But stupid is what an anarchist does.
Bard to worse
WILLIAM Shakespeare is arguably the greatest Englishman who ever lived.
How depressing to see a bunch of woke academics charged with protecting his home-town’s heritage waste time instead on “decolonising” him.
Woke academics are wasting time ‘decolonising’ Shakespeare[/caption]
It’s all much ado about nothing.
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