Comments on: DVLA – No Way Out for Car Tax Evaders

By: mike

mike — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 02:14:43 +0000

i evade car tax its easy i just dont own a car

By: Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:30:31 +0000

How much money is spent on these commercials…. indeed how much is spent bringing tax evaders to court….. ? Why not dispense with car tax, sack the morons at the dvlc, save the money from their salaries, and pointless ad campaigns and bringing those to justice that avoid paying their car tax and put it in with the overtaxed petrol. That way nobody can avoid paying it, and, the more you drive, the more petrol/diesel you have to buy. The more you use the roads, the more you pay. The less efficient your engine the more fuel you have to buy, so by putting the tax in with the fuel, the more likely you will keep your car running and in good order….. why are the government wasting our money on pointless ad campaigns upholding an outdated road tax system ? Clogging up the courts and keeping brainless nerds at the dvlc in work.

By: Suzanne Lawson

Suzanne Lawson — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:38:07 +0000

Every time I see this advert, I think Big brother is watching you. It annoys me. I always buy my car tax, but this just makes me think of the gestapo. I did once buy a car where the seller told me it had six months tax and I was foolish to not check the disk, as it was from some off road thing and I was fined a lot. I can just about afford to drive as it is.

By: CovertJellyfish

CovertJellyfish — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:45:52 +0000

Hands up everyonr who believes Government and Politicians are a benifit to this country.

Come on, now. Don’t be shy…

Hmmm…. no response….

By: Silky

Silky — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:44:23 +0000

A frighteningly accurate description of my life there, Jackson…

By: Jackson

Jackson — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:12:33 +0000

Hmmm. What I thought was going to be a nice little rant on patronising government scaremongering turned into a bad little inaccurate unjustified rant on traffic police for no apparent reason other than “silky” has probably been caught behaving like a chav behind the wheel of a subaru impreza and decides to vent his bitterness out on a completely unrelated article. Ya know if it werent for immature skanks like them who do 70mph in a 30mph drawing attention to themselves and mow some innocent down cos they were on their way to nowhere the police would have more time for “real” criminals.

By: Tom Hewitt

Tom Hewitt — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:21:29 +0000

Dystopia anyone?

ID cards, CCTV, electrical tagging, speed cameras, the anti-terrorism act….. this advert epitomises everything that a government reading ’1984′ and thinking “what a marvellous idea! I think ill monitor and oppress the population to such an extent that even looking at a website that doesnt like the country’s government will get a young boy sent to Guantanamo Bay without charge” would want.

There are traffic cameras placed so densely throughout our countries roads, it is entirely possible, nay, disturbingly easy to track a person making a car journey from the isle of Wight to York every foot of the way.

They say ID cards are volentary, but to get a passport you will need one of these little tickets to fachism, a great catch added by a power hungry government to try and force feed the notion of this psuedo-freedom down our throats and make sure we are so high on every legal drug they can so the inhebriated population dont realise just what the fuck is going on and revolt. Trust me, the only way to keep a government from abusing its powers is to make it realise that its people can, and will revolt. Seems to have worked out alright in France, now they have an NHS second to none.

What do we have? We have leaders who will, instead of paying 3 years wages to a cleaner for a hospital ward, spend the equivelant sum on a toilet in a second home. Not first, second. This is one thousands of people dont even have one, when teen mothers cannot afford even basic amenities for thier babies, when thousands are dying from cureable diseases, when thousands of people die because of the privatistion of hospital cleaning….. I weep for Britain. We used to have an empire, we used to be prosperous and have the greatest industry in the world. Now we give money to a politician who feels his one home not able to contain his own over-inflated and undeserved sense of self worth, rather than feeding, homing and clothing our own population.

God save our gracious Queen, god save our noble Queen…. means little more to me now than the mumblings of a drunken homeless, wondering why his need for life comes second to some nice wallpaper in a second home. Disgraceful.

Everything summrised by one, fachist advertisement.

By: PIFLover

PIFLover — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:32:41 +0000

Technically this is a public information film, so I might review on my own blog when I get around to the site redo …

I just hate that feeling of “The government is breathing down your neck. So pay up, punk!” At least they’ve stopped trying to guilt trip us now – remember the one with an out of date tax disc at the scene of a car crash?

By: Ian Finlayson

Ian Finlayson — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:13:20 +0000

Ahhh… Another commercial with 2008′s Queen of Advertising, Kate Groombridge.

She’s got this, a Kia one and a couple of Special K’s

By: Jonny Chestwig

Jonny Chestwig — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:23:45 +0000

Huzzah! Yes we were dangerously close to engaging in politicial debate there!

By: Silky

Silky — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:27:14 +0000

Crickey, TWA has turned into Question Time…

@Michael – I wanted to say something about the independence of the BBC and showing the Police propaganda but forgot…

@Jonny – I’m sure some, possibly even most, people stick to the rules it’s just they don’t have TV programmes/adverts made about them. Because they’re a bunch of boring bastards.

@General Readership – The copper in the Tuesday night show told us that our insurance cost is increased by approximately Â£30 per year because of uninsured drivers, and my insurance is well over 10 times that amount. Insurance costs are so high because, in my opinion, insurance is a borderline scam.

Now back to slagging off TV adverts…

By: Jonny Chestwig

Jonny Chestwig — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:07:50 +0000

I know what you mean Michael but I don’t think that they can rely on good old human nature to get people to stick to the rules anymore. Unfortunately

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:04:54 +0000

What is pissing me off is this whole new culture of “we know what you’re not doing and we’re going to come and get you” adverts, like that TV licence one on the Beeb. There’s something Orwellian-ishly threatening about them that I don’t like at all.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:08:32 +0000

Jonny I think we are, what pisses me off is everything the government (this is not party political, previous Conservative administrations have been just as bad) does seems to be reactive rather than proactive, reducing car ownership has got to be good for the environment but viable alternatives must be in place and they are not.

By: Jonny Chestwig

Jonny Chestwig — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:35:35 +0000

Dave, I think we may be arguing the same point here. This gub’mint seems to think that the best way to change our transport habits is to attempt to ‘push’ us away from cars whereas they should be trying to ‘pull’ us towards public transport.

Put simply they should be trying to make public transport the best option, rather than the least bad.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:52:41 +0000

I take the point about uninsured drivers, I am not and never would encourage anybody to drive without insurance, but I do believe that there is an ongoing long term governmental policy to reduce car use by increased cost, which effects those most on lower incomes. This would be ok if this country had a decent and affordable public transport system. But it does not, it is expensive and crap, some of the train fares in the UK are more expensive that flying to some European cities. This policy only encourages people to drive without insurance (which in some cases can be higher than the purchase price of an old car) , which means they then don’t pay their road tax, which is what the ad is about.

By: RumpleThumps

RumpleThumps — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:01:44 +0000

Ummmm…yeah, I’m afraid I have to agree with Mr Chestwig on this one. Basically, if you can afford to buy the car and put petrol in it, then hiding behind an excuse of the ‘I cannot afford the insurance / tax etc…’ is pretty lame. And to put forward an admittedly cliched argument, a lot of the people who say they cannot afford insurance do manage to find the money to piss away on fags and booze. And the reason why a lot of people dont bother with tax/insurance is that the fine for getting caught is less than paying out for said items in the first place.
God, I sound like a Conservative now, (shudder!), and sure, car tax and insurance may be more expensive than what we think we should pay but at the end of the day it comes down to accepting responsibility for your actions.
Rant over

By: Jonny Chestwig

Jonny Chestwig — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:36:27 +0000

Dave, The reason we have high premiums is because there are thousands of unemployed scrotes pushing everyone else’s up. If you took away the need for compulsory car insurance then who’s going to pay when an uninsured driver crashes into me?

I don’t really buy the argument that people are in such dire straits they cannot afford car tax, insurance etc. If that’s the case they need to look at either abolishing car tax or having a look at council tax reform. Car insurance is a must IMHO

By: Silky

Silky — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:11:04 +0000

Yeah, there was a cracking scene from the one on BBC last night to do with insurance costs.

A French guy who couldn’t afford to insure his car but needed it to get to work to earn the money to try to pay for his insurance got pulled over on the M6.

After giving him a jolly patronising telling off the policeman said “Is there anything you don’t understand?” The French guy replied “Why I should stay in this country”.

Bravo.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:33:36 +0000

The one that gets me is where the car unfolds into a mobile phone, ‘now you’ve no excuse, you can now pay by phone’ . Well blow me down there was me thinking people didn’t pay their car tax because they are too tight or too skint, but no it’s they didn’t know how to, what a load of shite, the biggest reason for car tax evasion is that its linked to insurance and an MOT and many down the crappy end of life can’t afford it, either remove the requirement of an insurance certificate from the equation or tackle high premiums, or is this a long term strategy to get the great unwashed of the road, leaving them free for the wealthy.