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The EU Law of unintended consequences

It is now apparent that the EU plans to outlaw sex discrimination which will force insurers to ignore common sense and statistics when applying insurance rates. It is a fact that young men are involved in many more accidents than young women hence their insurance is higher because they obviously pose a greater risk factor, but to make things equal between the sexes, insurance companies will not now be allowed to consider gender, when they issue cover, so young women will have to pay the same as young men.

It goes without saying that the government of Britain (fairly soon we are going to have to think of another name for this body) broadly supports the planed directive, which is just as well as they couldn’t do anything about it if they didn’t.

I am reasonably sure that the EU does not intend to make driving more expensive for women, but that is what is going to happen, and is an indication of the inability of the EU to make sensible laws. They are cocooned in their own little world, and do not have to consider the anomalies and inconsistencies which results from their drive to make us all subservient to their will.

All that matters to them is that both sexes must be equal, it seems the fact that they are already equal in that they both have the chance, not to drive into other cars, not to drive to fast, not to drink and drive, has escaped the Commissions notice, the only difference is that young women have consistently shown they choose not to do those things which can cost the insurance companies money, and are therefore a better risk. I would have thought that they had a jolly good case of sex discrimination, against the EU Commission to take before the ECJ

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Filed under : The Best of the Rest
By Ken
On September 22, 2004
At 2:14 pm
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