In his final Question Time interview yesterday Prime Minister David Cameron told us to listen to the economic experts he listed, before we voted in the Referendum on Thursday.

For his expert scenario, he suggested that if an expert mechanic told us our car was dangerous we wouldn’t drive it.

Well, in an ideal world I’d agree with him, but he just happened to pick an unregulated industry where anyone can set up a garage and mechanics don’t have to be licensed to service or repair our cars. And, as a consequence, independent garage complaints are among the highest of all referred to Citizens Advice, other than to do with used car sales – another unregulated area of the motor industry.

So please Mr Cameron, don’t use that analogy again because too many mechanics aren’t experts at all. And you just might be adding to the safety risks too many motorists run already when they trust unscrupulous garage staff.

Which you’ve clearly not experienced yet, hence your Government not seeing the need for regulation in the automotive industry?

Far be it from me to suggest that perhaps the same might be true of so called economists ahead of Thursday’s referendum? Pretending to know what they are doing when they really haven’t a clue?
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But whatever happens in the Referendum, I’d like to compare notes with you about this afterwards. The poor state of the motor industry is a very serious matter for women drivers and genuinely good garages suffer such a poor and unjustified image as a consequence.

I’d welcome the opportunity to explain to you how mums like Samantha could so easily compromise their children’s motoring safety by not knowing how to check out a measurably good garage from lesser others. Not just garage but also used cars and tyre safety standards can all be higher but you’d have to see the full industry picture for ALL motorists, not just those that can afford to buy and run posh prestige car makes.

FOXY

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