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AIBU to feel horrified at the number of Motability vehicles being provided?

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DawnRaiderNight · 22/10/2026 19:36

Just read this in the Telegraph about what the Americans think of our welfare spending:

“It also shocks Americans to learn that almost one in every five new cars sold in Britain is provided through Motability, the taxpayer-backed car scheme. The equivalent in the United States would be every Chevy, GMC, Buick and Cadillac sold through welfare. Or every Ford”

One of my friend’s daughters, aged 27, who has never worked, has several children with various diagnoses and is a single parent recently received a top of the range car, got to choose the colour and was given a ‘big reveal’ at the garage when she collected it. She has now been given a new four bedroomed detached house, something my own hardworking children could never manage.

Something is very, very wrong in this country.

OP posts:
Coffeekat · 22/10/2026 19:39

I really hope that posters aren’t daft enough to respond to this.

MyArtfulGreySloth · 22/10/2026 19:39

Hope you’re ready for a pile on OP. You’re not wrong though.

ThunderThunderThunderThunderCats · 22/10/2026 19:39

Your friends daughter has been GIVEN a 4 bedroom detached house? Who gave it to her? A sugar daddy?

QueenOfAccountability · 22/10/2026 19:38

It's got to the point now where it isn't what you earn that counts, it's what you don't have to pay for that matters and improves circumstances financially.

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