Hi all,

I've been interested in the subject of regulating the motor repair industry almost since I started nearly 40yrs ago. As James has said in a couple of publications recently, probably only a compulsory scheme would work. However regulation of anything in the UK tends to get turned into a bureaucrat's wet dream. Frankly, the government is so discredited and unable to regulate even itself it's unlikely they could succeed at regulating the motor repair industry.Perhaps it's time for another QUANGO? If they had started at the beginning, around the time they started licensing aircraft mechanics (1919) it would have worked. These days I just look on in a kind of puzzled amusement at the next daft idea that is dreamed up.Usually accompanied by another stealth tax.