Cheap motor insurers recall the Ten Commandments.
In today's almost lawless Britain , whereby nothing really shocks you any more, cheap motor insurer - Insureyourmotor.co.uk - thought that the metaphorical barrel would have had its entire scrapable base removed. Well the cheap motor insurer has had to think again. Not content with mugging the blind, (an easy mistake to make, once bypassing the Golden Labrador and the long, white stick) assaulting pensioners for the hell of it, (a Zimmer frame not being deterrent enough) and buttering you the wrong side up with a knife for looking at someone the wrong way, the cheap motor insurer note those that take anti-establishmentarianism to a different level have happened upon another sure-fire way to get their kicks. Courtesy of the deceased. Cheating motorists are said, believing cheap motor insurer Insureyourmotor.co.uk, to be using the identities of the no longer living, so as to wriggle out of parking fines and congestion charges.
And who tells the cheap motor insurer this? The National Fraud Initiative, that's who. We caught them during a rare break away from gate-bolting duties to see what all the recent furore was about. And why, and how, stiffs are being, er, stiffed. The N.F.I has cancelled more than 5400 badges for registered disabled drivers across the country - although mainly in crime-riddled urban sprawls that have names that sound similar to Manchester , Merseyside and London - after miraculously spotting that said privilege cards were being used after the registered holder had passed away.
In one particular case, in Wandsworth, the crime-busting organisations report highlighted that 4 such badges were used 347 times in total, after those entitled to actually use them had slipped away.
Astonishingly in Liverpool , 6 wicked people have been prosecuted for obtaining (a word used to cover a multitude of sins in the northern city) one particular badge in a deceptive manner. Elsewhere, a further 23 individual investigations are said to be ongoing. Like Blue Peter badges, only larger and less grand, these blue badges have been swapping wrong-doing hands for sums of upto £500 on the black market. (or as its better known these days - eBay. Sorry Ed! Allegedly speaking.) The Initiative, run by the Audit Commission, admits that due to this illegal activity, local councils are missing out on millions of pounds in revenue to fraudsters.
It's in light of these revelations that the commission is giving all local authorities the free-ranging power to conduct a thorough trawl of every last permit applications on their books; checking, and double checking, against public records like electoral rolls, death registers and council tax files. Which should keep civil servants in their offices long after lunch. And as suitable punishment, should they be caught, (bookies not offering prices) then guilt-ridden motorists will face having their hands chopped off. Well they would if they were in the Middle East mores the pity. Over here, they'll get a stern talking to and a fine of upto (meaning in 1, maybe 2 extreme cases) £2500 pounds.
If its real value for not a lot of money you're after, then get your sweaty mitts on some of Insureyourmotor.co.uk's cheap motor insurance; as it won't get you in trouble. Infact, quite the opposite effect will take place.
Date - 21/09/2006
