Motor insurers note humongous driver's site launched by Blair + Co?
Like ourselves here at Insureyourmotor.co.uk, the government are never ones to shy away from publicity. That's where all similarities end though. Whereas they might preach politics - we stand for one thing. Cheap motor insurance. Never ones to loose sight of our policies regarding cheap motor insurance, Insureyourmotor.co.uk want the country to hear our message. Cheap motor insurance is a right - not a privilege. Cheap motor insurance for the masses is what Insureyourmotor.co.uk elect themselves on. If its change you want, a change to cheap motor insurance for all, then vote Insureyourmotor.co.uk, and make a difference. One of Insureyourmotor.co.uk's diplomatic journalists takes a look at new government measures to help the motorist...
The current governments main loan providers will welcome the news that their once-favourite/much 'lent' client, namely Tony Blair and his friends, are launching a new motoring website; therefore putting a fraction of the 'amount borrowed' to good use. Now that they've paid off their mortgages, Cherie Blair PLC have turned their attentions to www.directgov.co.uk.
Described (rather humbly by the civil servants that grafted day and er, day to create it) as a 'Godsend to motorists', it is, amongst other things, an information-laden, simpleton-proof site that allows users to do just about anything. (That they could have done previously).
Only this time from the comfort of their own homes.
Whether it be apply online for a tax disc, check their MOT records, book a driving test, or, if encyclopaedically dull - sit a mock driving theory test - there is a catalogue of 'things to do and see'. For those of you who list 'chintz curtain twitching' slightly ahead of 'crocheting' as your hobbies of choice, then you'll be merrily agog to learn this new site invites you to envelop yourself in the random and spontaneously amusing pastime of 'reporting an unlicensed vehicle'.
You may wish to exchange or update your current drivers licence, your prerogative of course; the pain of which has been removed thanks in no small part to Direct.gov.co.uk, and its implicit facility to order the forms required by simply single clicking through a couple of easily explained links. espousing such judiciousness with reference to the photos necessitated - of them bearing a true likeness to its subject, showing the full face minus any hats, sunglasses or god forbid - helmets in the shots.
Elsewhere on site you can find out how to get your drivers licence back after being disqualified, a breakdown of vehicle taxing, medical rules for drivers, an edifying section on learner and new drivers, advice on how to buy and sell vehicles, a sort of self-help-guide to general road safety and token pieces on vehicle crime. And there's a separate section for the disabled to expedite and explore.
Further Good news comes in the form of parking fines. For all of you with an inkling for entry-level criminal activities, yet toying with the wild concept of paying your parking fines, then there's a special section that affords those that in all honesty normally fear the postman's arrival, an opportunity to sidestep OAP's at certain high street counters, and settle your differences online. Or, if you continue to strongly disagree with being 'awarding' such a fine in the first instance; you can take pleasure in completing an appeals box from the deluded safety of your desktop.
The fun doesn't start there either, as even better news comes for all you proud Rover 200-owning road enthusiasts who find themselves inexplicably confined to a makeshift home-office space/bedroom, as this all-conquering motoring spin-off of the governments much publicised public service 'super site' makes provisions for traffic and general road congestion information to be beamed into the screen you stare blankly into 24/7.
The Cabinet Office has gleamed information that suggests despite 75 million websites in existence on the web, most of us Britons visit just six on a regular basis. Those of a dubious nature aside, they are rumoured to be the obvious candidates - the BBC, Google, E-Bay and Amazon - and soon in their estimation, the 'one-stop site that is the Direct.gov homepage. Totalitarian state ideology showing no signs of letting up then Tony/Gordon.
To summarise on a positive note though, drivers will now be able to tick and/or cross all the boxes they'll ever need to ever again online, consigning the medieval chore associated with conventional methods of official paperwork completion, to being a thing of the past. Similar to black doors in Downing Street with the numbers 10 emblazoned somewhere on its surface. Forward-thinking.
Exactly the same sort of attitude adopted by the team here at Insureyourmotor.co.uk, the home of cheap motor insurance. If it's the cheapest motor insurance you're after, then look no further than our website, Insureyourmotor.co.uk and you won't be disappointed.
Date - 21/09/2006
