Budget 2024: What Every UK Motorist Needs to Know!

[@scottdyke7853]

I think you've been fairly analytical about the budget's impact on motorists and have presented your views in a fair and balanced fashion. Big thumbs up!!

[@BrownCarGuy]

Thank you!

[@JackKing12.]

I want to eat a 20oz sirloin steak and I will eat it... I want to drive an ICE car emitting 1,000kg Co2/km...I WILL DRIVE IT 😂

[@GT380man]

I feel the same. Unfortunately, I can also foresee control systems almost ready to impose, where tech will be used to curtail such freedoms. Because most people refuse to believe that governments would ever do this, what I see as control system elements, they accept the ostensible reasons given for each of them. For example, the whole concept of pay per mile has numerous, far simpler options, beginning with fuel duty. It is an extraordinarily burdensome technology based solution to a non problem to even consider ANPR cameras for such a purpose. That technology, I don’t buy the ostensible reasons for a second. Its definitely a control system element. So are facial recognition systems in supermarket checkouts. The list is long, and no, I’m not imagining it. It’s thoroughly creepy.

[@Hell-Hound1]

As long as you can afford it, you go for it!

[@foppo100]

You want nothing because if you don't care others do.

[@IainGraham-k7v]

George Orwell called it right.

[@geriatricprogrammer4364]

Almost, he got the title of the book wrong.

[@FredFox-m9v]

Are you serious. The budget wasn't bad for car drivers ? She hasn't put fuel duty up but she has done everything else she can to drive petrol and diesel drivers off the road and onto the road new with road duty. She is going to be the end of car manufacturing in the UK. Nobody wants EV's and she is stopping consumers from buying the ice cars that they want. Result industrial domestic suicide on the back of net zero, which with the UK acting alone, will do nothing for the environment, nothing !

[@steven1515]

Spot on well said 👏 👏

[@geriatricprogrammer4364]

I can't afford 40k for an Ev and even if I could, where would I charge it. What if like me you have health issues and can't spend over an hour on the road using buses to get to work. I'll just have to live off unemployment benefit then.

[@janettetaylor8760]

No car tax is going up double the price while shitty EV only pay 20 quid fck of

[@adogmcdizzle]

Our expectations are so low at this point, that anything that isn't utter self-flagellation seems like a win.

[@BrownCarGuy]

Point!

[@BillyBob-rm3ve]

I've just decided to pay the balloon payment on my RAV4 and keep it for as long as possible! I don't want an EV and I don't want a new ICE vehicle with all the speed limiting tech and double VED penalties! The government can shove it!

[@scottdyke7853]

OMG!! Talk about a first world problem, this sits next to folks complaining about the increase in APD on business class seats.

[@BillyBob-rm3ve]

@ and your point is?

[@scottdyke7853]

@@BillyBob-rm3ve complain, complain complain

[@BillyBob-rm3ve]

@ jealous that I was able to pay off my car? Are you poor? Have a shit job? Not my problem!

[@BillyBob-rm3ve]

@@scottdyke7853 jealousy is a terrible thing! 😏

[@Mickhanic-garage]

Keep your older car and sod the ridiculous tax and depreciation...

[@foppo100]

Your old car the combustion one will be banned in many towns.Don't beleive me? Wait and see.

[@adogmcdizzle]

My 2004 E55 AMG is £405 per year VED for a 5.5litre V8, (326g/km) I feel like that's cheap now!

[@BrownCarGuy]

@adogmcdizzle winning! 😉

[@StuartPearson-mj7uz]

Five grand in tax if you aspire to owning a Range Rover or something along those lines big drop in Range Rover sales I think.

[@scottdyke7853]

@@StuartPearson-mj7uz Five grand a year tax on a Range Rover could be considered a tax on stupidity.

[@gixerloon]

Thanks for the info BCG, there's a lot to digest, and tbh, I don't see why EV's shouldn't have to pay VED, they are wearing out the tarmac, just the same as the rest of us, that have to pay for the use. Ok, so the VED has been frozen this year, mostly in part I suspect due to the Fair Fuel campaigns, but this Liebour lot really do want us out of our cars and on the bus, don't they, expect that bus fares have risen 50% and if you live in a rural area like I do, there is no discernible bus service, so it'd be walk the 4-6 miles into the nearest town along main roads with no footpath, then back humping whet ever you bought... that isn't happening... Tbh... I don't want or can afford a brand new car EV or otherwise, and with those new VED rates wouldn't even if I did want one, I have a 2009 Audi TDI, which I've owned a few years, and will be keeping for the discernible future, the road tax has already increased in the time I've had it, it's now £200.00.. it doesn't smoke like an old lorry, and passes the 'government' prescribed emissions test every year, I sold my last petrol car a few years ago because VED was heading sky wards of £350+ p.a to drive on the crap roads we are forced to drive on, if they double my road tax and I'm unsure yet as I pay monthly at the moment, and haven't noticed an increase as yet... but one of two things are likely.... either my car will be SORN'd 😉😉 or I'll leave the UK, and it will be SORN'd and not MOT'd in the UK from then on, I've been driving/riding since the early 80's, at my age I've just about had enough of being the punching bag for every successive car hating government in the last 30+ years.

[@retroonhisbikes]

Where exactly are you going to plug in your hybrid? Two public charging points in Hull. And one in hornsea 12 miles away. Cant charge a car at home pretty sure its an offence to block the pavement with a power cable

[@mickjoebills]

@@retroonhisbikes In Hull, I count 20 public charging locations with many times that number of charging points.

[@level10boy]

We've had 3 female PMs, it's a complete non issue that she's a woman chancellor, people only care if she's any good! Meritocracy please, not Identity politics!

[@TwinTowerTwo]

Yes I agree exactly. I don't care if they are male or female or the first whatever, what matters is whether they do the right thing.

[@happymonkey7068]

Like the rest of these grifters, they are only glove puppets. The ones rolling out these money grabs, you never see or hear of them, the Civil Service are the real government.

[@whodat7366]

Brown car guy 😂😂😂😂

[@colliehouse3133]

Women should not be in power. It’s not a natural state of humanity.

[@Offgridcamper-sb4rj]

If you are going to comment on emissions, then please include the nano-particles from braking and tyre wear, and the inefficiency of energy conversion as a result of transmission and heat loss.

[@mikemars5984]

I dont know how you can be so relaxed. The labour party are going to hammer petrol, diesel and hybrid cars until no one can afford them.

[@jetcleanpro2384]

Hi from the guy who spoke to you in DJI shop

[@BrownCarGuy]

Oh hello!! 🤩

[@mrumbug]

Why should I be discriminated against for driving a petrol vehicle, when someone who can afford £30-£60k for an EV can get cheaper motoring at a loss to the general tax payer. Anyone that purchases an EV and enjoys a taxpayers discount should surrender their passport. You cannot be flying around the world being self-righteous. If anything, any vehicle coming from some of the most polluting countries should be paying an additional manufacturing pollution tax. You only have to look at HS2 to see the destruction of the countryside, but they are ok with that. Just a thought!

[@st200ol]

Just a mini rant more like. 😉

[@mikemars5984]

.​@@st200ol nope.

[@69spook]

Because life's not fair...😂

[@mikemars5984]

@69spook EVs are being subsidised through incentive schemes in the UK. I'd drive one, but there are no Tesla chargers and the insurance is over triple. Just not paying it when I can drive a lovely ICE SUV.

[@st200ol]

@ Sounds like you are making excuses for not driving an EV. No Tesla chargers, other EVs are available. Insurance over triple. EVs are available in lower insurance groups. 😉

[@GregPodster133]

EV ved should be higher than ICE ved because they are heavier and wear out roads quicker. ( I'm not naive, i know ved doesn't get spent on roads, it's just a tax con ) 😢

[@Hell-Hound1]

VED is pollution based, not by weight. Weight does play a part in road wear, not fuel type.

[@oomz1975]

Will the price of car insurance be coming back down?

[@ghostinthemachine76]

Don’t be silly.

[@david-hf3dk]

LV tried to rip me off over 80% on my renewal last year so I went to another company. They are passing the costs of ev repairs to all cars including ice.

[@djtaylorutube]

My EV insurance came down this year so yes.

[@davidadams5116]

I have a 2 litre diesel Insignia 2018 and my fully comp insurance with Tescos is £305.80 for the year. Not bad in this day and age.

[@prjackson7802]

Great video

[@Phantom-mk4kp]

You just wait until the spring budget. This government is so disliked i think theyve made some last minute changes, hence the extra borrowing

[@Tl-rs1dv]

Well done lobby groups like fuel uk and everyone who petitioned local mp s

[@GT380man]

I applaud anyone who bothers but I don’t believe that these efforts made the slightest difference. Not on things government regards as important. Then, they do whatever they want and petitions, lobbying and demonstrations make no difference.

[@OS993]

Where is the benefit in buying a new car, compared to a 5 year old Japanese car? EU made cars are designed to be recycled within 7-8 years, so are pointless.

[@IainGraham-k7v]

Aye,my 20 year old celica still drives like a dream.

[@ghostinthemachine76]

Especially EVs. That’s if they haven’t exploded before they expire.

[@FredFox-m9v]

@IainGraham-k7v I see quite a few very old Hondas about. Expensive but obviously well built.

[@brianliggett9087]

stick with my 2014 bmw 2.0 diesel £35 road tax , 184 bhp , 50 plus round town , over sixty on a run , pulls like a train , whats not to like ?

[@keithmartland6463]

Have you looked at the Taxation classes for vehicles, Confused i can't make head or tail of them! and to think it used to be £57 for one year no matter what you drove!

[@StuartPearson-mj7uz]

That's Australia I am talking Great Britain in winter here it does not get light until gone 8 am and is dark again at 4pm so not going to get much out of solar panels from October to March

[@jeffmason]

I drive a non-compliant diesel van so dreading what the rise in VED is going to be next year!

[@ScottyJ1122]

I still do not trust them, I feel there is change coming there just doing it slowly.

[@jendrizzyy]

Labour are snakes, 100%

[@graemeshort1928]

The clue is in the name LIEBOUR Keep up the pressure on them for WFA and £300 off energy they did promise it and WE want it.

[@scottdyke7853]

Don't need the WFA that generation have made the planet warmer, negating the requirement for a cold weather subsidy.

[@robbie2447]

So people won't buy new cars and that will have a knock on affect .

[@anthony208]

The increases in VED for new vehicles won’t affect me directly, but clearly will have a knock on effect on the quantity of available used ICE vehicles down the road. Whilst most people don’t purchase their new car irrespective of fuel type, the depreciation on most EVs currently will still be far greater than the VED increases on all but the very top end ICE ‘polluting’ models. The depreciation levels on EVs will also have to be reflected in the PCP or lease costs to cover the loss in vehicle value

[@FriendlyTalking2]

They need to get using the Bradbury pound, then they have no debt and can afford all the services to be paid for properly and no one needs to go without

[@davejohnston5158]

If they stray outside the bank of england protection racket there will be blood. History is clear on this.

[@christopherbell7561]

EVs, they will change there minds when we don't buy them

[@melvinplant8637]

CAR MANUFACTURERS SHOULD DOWN RIGHT REFUSE TO MAKE EVs period.

[@christopherbell7561]

@melvinplant8637 there starting to

[@GShockWatchFan.]

For how long have we dodged the bullet on PPM?

[@GT380man]

I’m not convinced that they have the technology in place as yet. To make it work uniformly, I think they’d need always connected vehicles to facilitate measuring distance travelled. That, or people might be required to have their mobiles with them. The alternative is ANPR, which is almost if not actually error free on main roads like motorways. I don’t think it’s faintly possible however to rely on ANPR outside of built up areas. Where I live, a rural area, I can go for a decent drive / ride and not encounter a camera, as far as I know. I often fuel my bikes at home, so visits to fuel stations isn’t a viable way to charge PPM to specific vehicles, though price per litre purchased is of course captured. There’s an obvious alternative which is to pull the annual mileage traveled off the MOT database. Currently, recording the mileage at MOT is optional (I don’t know why that is). That they are not considering this I find creepy, and lines up with the concern some express that PPM is really a control measure and nothing to do with road pricing. For the vast majority of vehicles currently on the road, PPM is daft, because we already have it. It’s in the cost of fuel. Only EVs aren’t charged PPM in a consistent manner, because many people charge at home at discounted rates vs public charging.

[@st200ol]

@@GT380manThe biggest reason is this government is very unpopular and probably don’t want to make that difficult decision at the moment, with these changes there is no need. I expect we won’t see PPM until the ban on ICE car sales comes into force, at the earliest, whenever that turns out to be.

[@anthony208]

@@st200ol I suspect the introduction of PPM will come sooner than you suggest, because the loss of tax revenue as more people are forced to buy an EV will ensure the government has to bring in PPM to make up for the lost revenue and maintain the UK driver at top of the cashcow table. Next to the ever decreasing numbers of us actually working and paying ever increasing taxes to allow the communist party Liebour to continue giving away taxpayers money to just about anybody who isn’t a UK citizen who has paid taxes in their lifetime or is paying taxes currently. Deserving causes like wealthier foreign countries for climate boll*cks, net zero ponzi schemes, increasing immigration costs, any public sector workers, large union paymasters, civil service and last but not least themselves, because turkeys don’t vote for christmas. Not that many of of us will be able to afford christmas or a turkey after this budget and a recent defra directive means you can’t breed your own without the stazi wanting to know where contraband food supplies are coming from!

[@dieselbushcraft1299]

A well balanced review of the facts, excellent and well presented.

[@meeowoo6969]

What will happen to VED tax for older cars 10-15 years old?

[@BrownCarGuy]

@@meeowoo6969 nothing particularly mentioned in this budget about them

[@GT380man]

@@BrownCarGuyGood news for people like me, who’ve resolved never to buy a modern vehicle. I find the onboard surveillance so creepy that I refuse to endorse it by buying vehicles like this. If I was young, I could not hold out, but being retired, I see no reason not to keep going indefinitely with modern classics. 20 year old premium cars can be a joy. I understand it’s not practicable for those who do high mileages, but I no longer do that.

[@steveclark..]

​@@GT380manI'm with you Mike, my pickup truck and wife's car are both 11 years old now, my RD350LC is over 40 years old now so no MOT and free road tax. All vehicle manufacturers have lost their way I feel, none of what they make appeals to me anyhow, even if there were no element of control.

[@69spook]

Good question. So they stay the same. Pre 2017 are the cheapest road tax rates.

[@steveclark..]

@@69spook Not always so, my pickup truck is a 2013 and that cost over £300 last time I paid for a years tax. It's a diesel, 2.5L engine, not some huge CC American V8 truck.

[@johnpassey3176]

Good analysis, thank you 👍

[@adogmcdizzle]

Second hand cars will get more expensive as a result of higher first-year VED rates. Don't think that it only affects new car buyers!

[@ohyesitsme]

Strange that they are giving the motor industry billions of £££ and yet at the same time they are going to hit them with a £15000 fine for every car that they sell if they haven't hit the ZEV Mandate.

[@GT380man]

It’s almost as if they don’t want the general public to privately own liquid fuel based transport.

[@markharris7662]

I do less than 1k a yr in my car. So I will see what's the cheapest I can find to run.

[@martinarnott4058]

Still wont buy an Ev ever will pay £400 a year still cheaper than servicing an EV.😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@lordleonusa]

not to mention the depreciation on an EV

[@stephenhaywood5672]

Still keeping the lunatic commitment to full EV by 2035 is simply killing the entire motor industry. People just aren’t taking up the technology at the %age they mandate. Let the market decide take up and vehicle manufacture . Net zero bollocks

[@Hell-Hound1]

The country needs more people like you. People who don't mind paying for their beliefs.

[@glenwelder]

My Ev costs £120 to service much cheaper than my ICE car.

[@scottdyke7853]

What source of misinformation are you reading. You haven't a clue. EVs don't need Oil, Oil filters, spark plugs, fuel filters, air filters, gearbox service is unlikely, brake use is reduced because of energy recovery. Worst you can expect from regular services are windscreen wipers/wash and occasional tyres and brakes. Traction batteries will last in excess of 150,000 miles.

[@regd.2263]

When they introduce pay per mile how would they know how many miles your car will do.

[@melvinplant8637]

A N P R CAMERAS.

[@Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968]

Every new car is fitted with a tracker. They'll even ask you if your journey was necessary and fine you if they believe it wasn't. A vote for Starmer was a vote for the WEF not Labour. Welcome to HMP Britain.

[@janettetaylor8760]

No Instead she put pay per mile up instead and double car tax 😡😡😡😡

[@melvinplant8637]

ISNT ROAD TAX(VED) GOING UP AGAIN IN APRIL.

[@neilbirch5410]

How than they increase taxes by over 100%. As a pensioner I am going to find this very difficult. I can't afford to change my car so it's another tax on poor people.

[@stevenkillington5041]

Bus prices will go up and trin fares have been a ripoff for 20 years

[@stephenhaywood5672]

All part of the plan to make private transport utterly non viable for us plebs

[@regd.2263]

That's the last thing I would do is congratulate anyone in the Labour government. We already pay per mile with the fuel duty. Don't buy new cars stick with your old petrol or diesel cars.

[@robertanton1862]

pay-per-mile will never work back street garages doing tune-ups will get richer. and government will get poorer discovering that all the cars in the country did a combined mileage for last year of just 10 miles!!!

[@StuartPearson-mj7uz]

E u petrol and diesel ban is supposed to be 2035 if it happens at all.

[@nikamota]

Is the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars still 2035 or has it been moved back to 2030?

[@69spook]

Fook knows. It's like a bl👓dy yo-yo 🪀

[@jamesbarbour8400]

To the best of my knowledge, the year 2030 is when new car sales of either petrol or diesel ICE'd cars will be implemented. 2035 would have beem better, to give the public a bit of wiggle room. Labour won't be in power by 2030 anyway.

[@paulbuckingham15]

Only new Battery EVs, PHEVs or hydrogen fuel cell EVs can be sold from 2030. Any used car can still be sold.

[@melvinplant8637]

2030

[@StuartPearson-mj7uz]

Hydrogen in five years where can you buy that from

[@newsoftheday420]

Why are there potholes anyway?. Because the roads were not built properly in the first place and now with heavy EV's, they are just going to get worse.

[@Hell-Hound1]

EVs aren't the only heavy vehicles on the roads. The roads were bad way before EVs were even a thing!

[@keithgeorge7338]

As demand for petrol/diesel fuel declines, refineries will close and the price of fuel will rise without any control. So get your EV. There are loads of cheap EVs. I get paid to fill mine.

[@MrSkeptik-z5r]

Thieves is not a financial expert either, she's following her WEF orders.

[@royhoward8065]

I passed my driving test car insurance, and road tax is jokes I got i cant use escort, not ulez i got vauxhall zafira 1.8 car insurance is a joke no point driving 😮

[@Ionstorm]

This is a scam for people who bought a £30 a year to tax car and budgeted for it to be facing a £100 increase. "We knows people's pockets are tight so we didn't add to fuel costs" nah but you fkd us with road tax. France has 1p less per litre duty on Diesel than the UK but costs 9p a pop less.... France has 0 road tax for cars... Think about that. None. UK has the highest price of Diesel in the EU, and the 11th highest in Petrol. The 5p cut keep is justified. £50 a year extra top up is nothing compared to how much they're making more from Road tax, holding this is just to sugar coat and make it look like "we're lucky" when we're not.

[@markmewordz6860]

Russians pay 13% Income Tax. Think about that ;]

[@christopherbell7561]

The electric future just sounds so dumb to me.

[@glenwelder]

This budget is quite literally a car crash as always car drivers are a cash cow and with have been milked dry. Lets hope labour gets kicked out ASAP.

[@davejohnston5158]

You will travel by bus and be happy

[@DavidStanbridge-fx2yn]

I would love 1 single drop in the ocean of the 2 billion for automotive EV repair investment probably most will go to Tesla and places like Tesla Dartford. Just remember there made buy robots and repaired by human beings

[@kurtsteiner8384]

Try1100000. For an audi

[@charlielittle2688]

my i think i gone to sleep listening to this bore

[@st200ol]

I thought it was a good budget for car owners and everyone really. Of course there are areas of it that people are moaning about but I think if they’d look at the bigger picture for growth rather than just tomorrow and give it a few years perhaps we all will be better off. ❤

[@Veeger]

I wish they'd have put the duty back up on champagne. It tastes like sh*t , yet the torys love it because it's "upper class". Make 'em pay! Let them eat partly rotten food, drink disgusting drinks, but make them pay. Sad fools.

[@keithvers569]

Not a chance, public servants don’t make the country any money. Less tax for entrepreneurs would encourage growth.

[@keithvers569]

Also my boss runs a gas boiler servicing and maintenance company including new installs. He’s just lost about 10 grand a year thanks to Rachel Thieves. That’s before any of us get a pay increase this year. Can’t charge any more in the sector without losing business

[@mikemars5984]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@st200ol]

@@keithvers569 Does it really though, do these small < 10 employee companies really contribute much to the economy? I know every little helps but we need more exports and higher value exports to really help with our economy. The problem is a lot of those companies have left the UK for various reasons. A few Labour manifesto ideas could easily turn into very big export ideas if given the chance. Big up Britain, I know lots of folk will be very upset to see Labour succeed though and will do everything in their power to ensure that they don't. Not having exports is kind of like not having any family income, giving pocket money to the kids from savings and then charging them for meals you have just gone out and bought the ingredients for. Self contained systems like that will never work long term.

[@bwilliams572]

Read between the lines. They are sticking to the 2030 deadline because it is in line with the EU. Regarding EVs "There will be new car tax rates to hit two million drivers next year as the DVLA announced significant changes to the Vehicle Excise Duty (VED). The changes will come into play in Spring and will hit electric vehicle (EV) owners. They will now be required to pay car tax, ending a period of exemptions that have been in place for drivers of electric vehicles. This will come as a shock to UK drivers who had been incentivised to choose electric vehicles because of the exemption." Now i will bet in the next budget they will bring in new price rises for petrol or possibly pay per mile across the board.