With the 30,000 mile limit Mobility is trying to reduce their insurance, maintenance and residual values bill, hopefully this will be passed on the limit the VAT on leases after 1st July, lets see. As regards the trackers if my next lease is subject to fitting the black box tracker or they try and impose it on my existing lease 9they seem to make the rules up as they go on), I will leave the scheme. I have already started and costed looking outside the Mobility scheme.
If they force trackers then I will leave the scheme as well. Will probably mean driving older cars again, and I had to make a claim on my insurance cause something hit the front collision sensor on my previous lease car, so I won’t have much no claims. If I had known this was going to happen when I first took out a lease 7 or so years ago, then I probably wouldn’t have bothered and stuck with old cars. But there are many things I would have done with the power of hindsight.
However, in the greater scheme of things, it is what it is, and I’m sure familes in Gaza, Ukraine, and Iran won’t be thinking ‘Poor Joe having to get a 2nd hand car instead of a brand new one every 3 years’. So while it may feel what the government are doing sucks and be unfair, I feel its still important to get things in perspective, and I will survive.
As far as the rhertoric of getting disabled people back into work, I feel that narrative was shown as a deception when the DWP tried to frame cutting benefits as being for the diasbled’s own benefit and the Remploy factories were closed.
But there is still much in the world to be thankful for, and I find at least aiming to focus on these rather than wallowing in the injusties, a lot more beneficial for my own mental health.
As the saying goes: Change what you can, and let go of what you can’t change.