Whilst I am in favour of staying in the EU, they really don't help themselves.....

...Car insurance to rise by 11% for young women after European ruling
Young women face a rise in the cost of their car insurance by 11% from next year due to European rules which ban firms from pricing according to gender, according to new research.

What next ... banning pricing according to age??

The whole point of car insurance premiums is based on risk. Young women are shown to be less of a risk compared to men of the same age, hence the cheaper rates. That said the discrepancy between different insurers does beg the question where do they get their stats from and who does the calculations. I originally started my career in Insurance working for the largest (at the time) Motor insurers in the UK (General Accident) and the methodology was pretty sound with not that much difference in premiums between different insurers. Now ww have quotes for my 24 year old daughter ranging from £500 - £4000 (with 3 years NCB) Crazy!!

Oops kinda lost the thread there I started out ranting at Brussels and ended up ranting at Insurers!!

 

Re: Whilst I am in favour of staying in the EU, they really don't help themselves....

i blame keith hill

 

Re: Whilst I am in favour of staying in the EU, they really don't help themselves....

****er ;-) ...........................

(lets be honest about it, people who choose to abuse players and fellow fans while hiding behind a computer screen are nothing but cowards.....)

 

Re: Whilst I am in favour of staying in the EU, they really don't help themselves....

Agreed.

Back on the topic of Europe if Cameron and his Europhobe's think that the Multi-National Companies who use the UK as a base for trading with the EU are going stay in the UK if we leave the EU we is dumber than I think he is.

80% of our trade is within the EU we are too closely linked to leave. We would have 10 million unemployed if we come out and that would risk a revolution in the UK.

Cameron is putting the interests of the UK finance and banking industries before everything else.

The Tories are a party who want to take us back to the age of Victoria.

 

Actually, and as per an earlier post I made...

...signing up rather than vetoing would have meant many elements of the Vickers report could not have been implemented which, in turn gives the banks/City an easier ride not harder one (not that DC probably intends to implement any of them). Since expert opinion on the veto is divided (if you discount those with an agenda a la anti europe or MEPs or labour /Liberals then the possible outcome is unclear really.