The DVLA used to sell (for £1.50 or something) the name and address of a person if you went in and posed as a wheel clamping guy (or maybe you might really be one) and say the owner of this vehicle never paid up and you need the details. Then the wheel clamping guys were turning up at people's houses threatening them and so on, with the occupier wondering where the clamp guys got their address from - the DVLA.
I just went looking for the story (it was quite a few years ago) and all I found was a 2015 story saying the DVLA
themselves are clamping 60% more cars, lovely.
"100,000 people will be clamped this year by the DVLA compared with 60,000 the year before" - The Guardian.
People say stuff like "Why would they do that" lol. I know exactly why but I ain't getting into it here. France had the right idea in the late 1700's, although some might say that's a bit harsh. Give it 50 more years.
"...the new buyer has to tax the car even if there was several months still outstanding on the previous owner’s tax."Do they really.
We're being chipped away at for sure. When does anything ever go the other way?!
Indeed what
will it be like in 50 years if no one stands up to this sort of "frog in a pan" type stuff? Look back to the US in the 1950's and 1960's, thats how free people
can be! Cops in the US used to help people change their car tyre, you had to commit a crime to be a criminal... now they just Taser™ people left right and centre, even killing some of them, for no real reason except they can. A Taser™ is of course a "non-lethal weapon" that... kills people, right.
Sorry if this is off topic but people were talking about licence plates.
We'll always be together, together on electric bikes.