nelz wrote:I see, so much the same as now, except instead of getting your insurance from an annoying nodding dog or opera singer, you buy it from Arthur Daley

If Arthur Daley is already approved to issue MOT certificates, why can't he sort out our cover notes as well?
I'd rather stick with the "do one job and do it well" philosophy and buy my insurance from an insurance company and my MOT from a test centre.
But then you probably prefer separate text processor, spell checker and page layout tools to LibreOffice Writer. Why do you use a monolithic kernel instead of HURD?
You could cut down on bureaucracy by having the test centre issue tax discs, but that would mean allowing blank discs out in the wild, I can't see that happening.
What, alongside those untamed blank MOT forms you mean? Almost as bad as stacking them up alongside ravaging books of postage stamps at my local Post Office.
While some streamlining is always possible, the cost of implementing it will always outweigh any saving made when government departments are involved.
Imagine the implementation costs we'd have saved is we'd stuck with stone tablets, bronze chisels and sacrificial sheep.
"We don't need no frikkin' aliens, we c'n do this ourselves!" — anon.