Anyone wandering Labour Conference this year can’t have missed the enormous Motability Scheme stand plonked in the middle of the Exhibition Hall. Front and centre, a gleaming ‘Evita car’ on display. It wasn’t there last year…
This despite the ongoing fury over thousands pocketing taxpayer-funded luxury cars for bogus ailments like ‘tennis elbow’, ‘frozen shoulder’, and ‘generalised anxiety’. Guido’s checked last year’s conference map – no sign of them. Hardly surprising, seeing as Labour confirmed they’ve no intention whatsoever of touching the scheme…
The nominal reason they are there is to promote the need for wheelchair accessible electric vehicles. Labour have already committed to a petrol and diesel car phase out by 2030, plus an additional£700 million of taxpayer-funded subsidies to get people buy EVs. Motability letting the good times roll…