Yea but it wasn't his car it was his wife's. Should they have taxed it? Of course - but I have often gone close to the wire on tax and insurance for simply forgetting. Given his job, checking his wife's car probably wasn't top of his priorities..........alcohol warnings etc...................
Here's my point - go after him for the state of the health service, go after him for trollies, go after him for waiting lists - that's the open goal................going after him for a tax disc for a car is letting him away with what he has actual responsibility for...........
It's not exactly leaking cabinet confidential documents or gaming the planning application process is it?