The government is cracking down on out-of-control whiplash fraud! Saving YOU, the motorist, £35 a year on your premium! Huzzah!
Only, as Chapter 3 of #FakeLaw explains, you’re not being given the truth.
Those in power are misleading you.
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Only, as Chapter 3 of #FakeLaw explains, you’re not being given the truth.
Those in power are misleading you.
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https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/1399264526822936578
The government and certain media have claimed for years that the UK is, variously, “the whiplash capital of Europe” or “the whiplash capital of the world”.
The truth?
The figures used for these claims don’t stack up.
Insurers have also made the same claim in other countries.
The truth?
The figures used for these claims don’t stack up.
Insurers have also made the same claim in other countries.
When the House of Commons Select Committee published its 2018 report into the government’s “reforms”, it criticised the “absence of reliable data” behind ministers’ - and the insurance industry’s - repeated claims about whiplash fraud.
So this claim today by Justice Secretary @RobertBuckland is not supported by any reliable evidence.
Mr Buckland is a bright man. He knows this.
Yet he parrots the government line without blinking.
Mr Buckland is a bright man. He knows this.
Yet he parrots the government line without blinking.
So why the determination to tackle something that the government can’t prove even exists?
It’s because “whiplash reform” is a Trojan horse. The government is making widespread changes to personal injury law to make it more difficult for genuinely injured people to seek redress.
It’s because “whiplash reform” is a Trojan horse. The government is making widespread changes to personal injury law to make it more difficult for genuinely injured people to seek redress.
These changes will mean that fewer people will be able to obtain legal representation when injured, and so will deter people pursuing personal injury claims against negligent employers or bad drivers.
Or, more specifically, their insurance companies.
Or, more specifically, their insurance companies.
The beneficiaries are not us. They are certainly not injured people. They are not even motorists.
That £35 bonus on your premium? The government refused to legislate to force insurers to pass on that saving. So motorists may never get it.
That £35 bonus on your premium? The government refused to legislate to force insurers to pass on that saving. So motorists may never get it.
The winners of the “whiplash fraud” narrative and the huge reforms to personal injury law that are being smuggled in, are the insurance industry.
The losers are genuinely injured people.
Yet we are being encouraged to cheer.
The losers are genuinely injured people.
Yet we are being encouraged to cheer.
This is only a brief summary - Chapter 3 of #FakeLaw gives you the whole sorry tale, and many more.
We are lied to about the law so that those in power can persuade us to vote against our own interests.
Don’t let them lie to you.
Out in paperback now.
We are lied to about the law so that those in power can persuade us to vote against our own interests.
Don’t let them lie to you.
Out in paperback now.
https://twitter.com/BarristerSecret/status/1397817318273585155
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