How about we collectively write to the media via email and campaign to get an investigative journalist to do some digging and put the banks under the same scrutiny that we as disabled people incur when we are scrutinised on weather we are entitled to the benefit are the banks entitled what happened to compulsory competitive tendering when it comes to how the Motsbility scheme is run
And cause even more of a ‘crap storm’ in the mass media?
As it stands, in the ‘court of public opinion’ and the mainstream press ,obtaining a Motability vehicle is somehow viewed as a ‘perk’ or as getting a car ‘on the cheap’ – hence the recent anti-Motability headlines.
Also, the mainstream press seemingly cannot distinguish between the Motability Scheme and the assessment process for disability related allowances – they lump it all together. Even you are entwining the two in talking about the banks and the disability assessment process in the same sentence!
To clarify, Motability Operations Ltd is a private company owned by four PLC banks. It is a sole source supplier to a charity (the Motability Foundation). It does not need ‘Compulsory Competitive Tendering’ or the 21st Century equivalent – if that still exists for Government contracts, as the scheme is not a government contract.
The disability assessment processes (and the results thereof) are solely managed by either the DWP, Scottish Social Security or Veterans_UK. All Government bodies.
This recent bad press involving Motability just needs to die a death and not be whipped up again. Hopefully it becomes tomorrow’s ‘chip paper’!
Let stories about the Orange One’s tariffs and markets plunging make the headlines now!
