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For once, and believe me, I nearly fell off my chair when I saw it, the Labour government has actually read the room. Not squinted at it. Not misheard it. Not turned up five hours late and blamed Brexit. They've read it, loud and clear. And they've acted decisively on something that has quietly annoyed the British public for years: removing high-end, flashy, sun-roof-down, look-at-me-go sports cars from the Motability scheme. And honestly? It's about time.

Look, nobody with a heart still beating is arguing that people who qualify for the Motability scheme shouldn't get wheels. Of course they should. They need independence, dignity, the ability to nip to Tesco without praying for a miracle. But somewhere along the line the scheme drifted from "helping people reclaim their lives" to "would sir prefer the top-spec SUV or the convertible with the heated leather seats?" It got silly. It felt unfair. And it made everyday taxpayers roll their eyes so hard they saw their own brains.

And I say this as someone who has lived the Motability reality - not the Twitter version, the actual lived experience one.

When I was a kid, my mum, an NHS midwife who worked her backside off for her family, suffered a stroke. She couldn't drive for years. Overnight, her independence vanished. No car meant no freedom. No mobility. A world suddenly smaller and heavier.

The Motability scheme stepped in and gave us a Vauxhall Corsa. Not a BMW. Not an Audi. Not a convertible that could make the neighbours choke on their cornflakes. A simple Corsa: no bells, no whistles, no one turning their head on the street. It wasn't glamorous. It wasn't exciting. It wasn't supposed to be.

But for my mum, it was everything. With physiotherapy and determination she eventually got behind the wheel again, and that modest little Corsa let her do the food shop, pick us up, live without relying on favours. It was a lifeline, not a lifestyle upgrade.

That's what the scheme should be. You know who won't be furious about Labour's decision? The people who genuinely need Motability. The ones for whom a reliable, affordable, practical car is the difference between being trapped and being free. They're not losing options that mattered. They're losing options that were absurd.

The only people upset will be the tiny minority who thought Motability was their ticket to a soft-top sports car at taxpayers' expense. For the first time in ages, Labour looked at a problem and fixed it without dithering. If they carry on like this, they might even start to look like an effective government.