Quoteheaven fights for cheap motor insurance.

Quoteheaven.co.uk fight above their weight to bring you the best deals in motor insurance. Whatever your choice of vehicle; and bring otherwise expensive insurance policy’s easily within your reach. So Quoteheaven ducked between the ropes to bring you this story about a Brown boy in the ring…..

So in the red corner we had Gordon ‘Crusher’ Brown, champion of the environmentalist, fighting for the clean air inhaling few, sweaty of brow but holding back nothing……opposite Charlie ‘Tractor-Boy’ Chelsea, unwilling to stand down over his campaign to pollute this great nation, defending his rights to turn a blind eye, and 2.5 tonne Waitrose-stuffed school shuttle towards small children (who insist on thoughtlessly standing on pavements) himself pulling no punches in the blue corner.

A Bruising encounter was wagered, a full-on street brawl between two heavyweights, both unwilling to give an inch…which of course tailed off into a pitiful whimper the other day. Brown upped road taxes for gas guzzlers by a few quid to appease a couple of tree-huggers, and a few of the entry level 4x4 drivers suffered in the process, somewhere they are probably crucial to get around in.

However Mr. Brown, you’re right back on the ropes today we think here at Quoteheaven.co.uk. Stopping some in their oversized tracks, well, to a point, you may have, but what of all this chest-beating and overt smugness seeping from every tartan pore about zero rate excise duty for the least polluting vehicles in the country? Of which we discover – there are none. The chancellor had stipulated that a motor vehicle had to achieve a pollution rating of below 100g of carbon dioxide per kilometre approximately while being driven, to gain entitlement of the zero rate tax. The Holy Grail to those with tandems and correctional footwear.

So far so good.

Unfortunately you had to narrow your choice of desired vehicle down to, er 2 to qualify for this governmental special offer. Seeing as there was only ever 2 vehicles that could pertain to meeting his specific criteria; namely the Honda Insight and the Smart FourTwo diesel. The minor flaw in this master plan is plain as the face on Mr.Blair's wife. Whilst the Honda Insight was removed from sale last year, the diesel smart doesn’t have a steering wheel on the right. Seeing as it has never been officially imported into this country in the first place. Oh how those in the blue corner must rupture their rib-cage with excessive chuckling.

The treasury come out fighting by blurting that the zero rates were simply introduced to encourage manufacturers to take up production of greener vehicles, oblivious to their seemingly bloodied nose. Yet of the other conventional green models, such as the petrol engined smarts, the Toyota Prius and the Honda IMA hybrid, aswell as various other compact Citroens and Daihatsu’s, none find themselves within the 100g/CO2 threshold. The Prius enters in the £40 pound-per-year tax bracket, as does Honda’s Civic hybrid, launched next week. Admittedly between 2001 and 2005 (the year when production was ceased) some 159 Insights were sold in the UK , and it’s understood that their owners will receive savings of £55 per-year on car tax regardless. Therefore the total loss to the exchequer as a result of the new band will be a paltry £8,745 at most.

This sorry state of affairs, leaves the government wide open to attacks from their harshest critics, who have wasted no time at all in concluding that the ill-fated measures are nothing more than gimmicks that will do nothing to protect the environment.

Chris Grayling, Transport spokesperson for the Conservative Party wastes no time in taking his gloves off and telling it like it is; ”This is another example of the government saying something about transport and the environment that the small print renders useless”.

Incidentally some electric cars boasting zero emissions have been zero-rated for some time, so there is no change in their treatment.

So again, with all his posturing and fighting-talk, Brown has failed to deliver once again. It surely can only be a matter of time with a record like this that he becomes Prime Minister.

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