People in the Mail comments section saying that they know people with Porsche and Range Rover vehicles “free” from the govt and there’s “nothing wrong with them.” Then these posts are upvoted despite being lies. Nobody gets Porsche and Range Rover vehicles on Motability and I’m sick of seeing comments making out that everyone is perfectly able to work blah blah blah. Also that blue badges are given out like sweets. It raises my blood pressure reading this cr@p!
Best not to read them. Sadly, this time it’s not restricted to the Daily Mail. Several other papers are running anti-Motability articles. Yesterday alone both the Telegraph and the Sun newspapers had a go as well. It was also mentioned on the Sky News newspaper review last night. The “£50k BMWs” line is getting lots of coverage. I can see the i4 being removed from the scheme soon.
Liz Kendall is due to announce the green paper at 12.30pm today, so we will at last have some meat on the bone about what is being proposed. The tightening of eligibility criteria for PIP looks like a given which, in itself, will reduce the numbers entitled to join Motability, but it will be interesting to see if some of the higher end cars are removed, especially as they are all EVs which manufacturers and dealers are pushing.
I’d like to think that Motability will fight back and explain just how much it costs to join the scheme, but I guess they might be shooting themselves in the foot by doing that, as it never ceases to amaze me how many customers consider the cost to be just the AP and don’t factor in the cost of the sacrificed benefits.