Inflation higher than expected

[Troll]

Unless said sprog is useful for driving you home from the pub, I would tell them the clear off and buy their own car and insurance with their paper round money

I wouldn't like to be a teenager these days...(except for the s*x of course) used to be high risks like this were bundled up with good drivers - like when I were a lad - so the premiums were high but affordable...
Now computerisation seems to allow much narrower focussing of rates tables

[HairyArsedBloke]

Thank goodness they don't know any better. Boomed.

are stupid enough to vote Labour

[OwlHoot]

Does anyone get the impression young people have been handed the tulipty end of the baby boomer/Brown legacy stick? They may never be able to afford to buy a house, car insurance, they come out of university with wide eyes and big debts (whereas we got paid to go) and will have to keep the long lived boomers comfortably in retirement too, and that's yet to kick off. Isn't there some way we could make them pay more for their smartphones too? Oh, yeah, they will likely be on minimum wage. No house, no car, saddled with debt, no prospects. Thank goodness they don't know any better. Boomed.

Been saying it for ages. It's amazing they're (collectively) too thick to notice, but lucky for us, er, slightly older people

[TimberWolf]

I've just received my car tax disc renewal reminder, and it's £200 for 12 months. Is inflation rampant or something? How minimum wager earners stay on the road I don't know, perhaps they can't afford to use the buses.

[AtW]

I've just received my car tax disc renewal reminder, and it's £200 for 12 months. Is inflation rampant or something?

That's taxes for you...

[centurian]

I have just had one policy increased by £600 @ year after adding 2nd sprog to the policy...ouch!

Check out "fronting" - the reason why they are charging you £600 is because the risk profile has considerably gone up - not the risk that said sprog will prang the car on the odd occasion they use it, but the risk that you are basically lying to the insurance company and this is effectively your sprog's insurance under your name.

Whether you are lying or not isn't the point - they've priced it in anyway.