BBC Newsbeat - 10,000 drivers have licences revoked in 2012
Discussion
ging84 said:
2012 was only 6 months after the continuous insurance enforcement rules came in, i suspect this this hadn't fully taken effect to get uninsured cars of the road, and also probably led to a spike convictions
I suspect the number of licenses revoked for being uninsured in 2013 will have been much lower
Possibly but I rather doubt sch a drop. The reality in these circumstances is that there is an illegal underclass operating in the UK who cheerfully ignore laws they prefer to ignore. Many examples with younger drivers where any fine if convicted which many are not will be consistently well below what genuine insurance would cost such a driver. In some cases literally thousands less. To be effective much more needs to be done to weed out such rogues.I suspect the number of licenses revoked for being uninsured in 2013 will have been much lower
B17NNS said:
Natasha Brydon said:
Natasha Brydon, from Hawick in the Scottish Borders, has five points on her licence and is at risk of having it revoked.
"It's unfair to have your licence revoked for silly mistakes that end up getting you points," says the 22-year-old.
Ms Brydon bumped into a car in a supermarket car park. She says she panicked and left the scene.
"It was a horrible experience," she says. "Minor mistakes should be forgiven. It would be different if it's drink-driving or serious speeding.
"I don't feel I should have been let off but to be categorised with people who have perhaps hit a person is a bit unfair, I think."
Stupid b"It's unfair to have your licence revoked for silly mistakes that end up getting you points," says the 22-year-old.
Ms Brydon bumped into a car in a supermarket car park. She says she panicked and left the scene.
"It was a horrible experience," she says. "Minor mistakes should be forgiven. It would be different if it's drink-driving or serious speeding.
"I don't feel I should have been let off but to be categorised with people who have perhaps hit a person is a bit unfair, I think."
h.There was a recent thread about reporting an obvious drunk driver for weaving etc in the road.
A 22yo on here then accused the op of being a police grass.
Has common sense and the appreciations of right and wrong dropped so much - in the new adult generation?
Are we now seeing the fruits of the last 20 years of political correctness in schools?
Hol said:
B17NNS said:
Natasha Brydon said:
Natasha Brydon, from Hawick in the Scottish Borders, has five points on her licence and is at risk of having it revoked.
"It's unfair to have your licence revoked for silly mistakes that end up getting you points," says the 22-year-old.
Ms Brydon bumped into a car in a supermarket car park. She says she panicked and left the scene.
"It was a horrible experience," she says. "Minor mistakes should be forgiven. It would be different if it's drink-driving or serious speeding.
"I don't feel I should have been let off but to be categorised with people who have perhaps hit a person is a bit unfair, I think."
Stupid b"It's unfair to have your licence revoked for silly mistakes that end up getting you points," says the 22-year-old.
Ms Brydon bumped into a car in a supermarket car park. She says she panicked and left the scene.
"It was a horrible experience," she says. "Minor mistakes should be forgiven. It would be different if it's drink-driving or serious speeding.
"I don't feel I should have been let off but to be categorised with people who have perhaps hit a person is a bit unfair, I think."
h.There was a recent thread about reporting an obvious drunk driver for weaving etc in the road.
A 22yo on here then accused the op of being a police grass.
Has common sense and the appreciations of right and wrong dropped so much - in the new adult generation?
Are we now seeing the fruits of the last 20 years of political correctness in schools?
Very probably. I have visited (personally as yet still unincarcerated myself despite 68 years of trying) various prisons locally over some years in a effort to effect successful recovery back into the community for the inmates being released. I learnt the lesson early on that no inmate has ever committed a crime and all are as the driven snow: pure and innocent. My experience is that most criminals are in reality horrendously damaged and deeply flawed individuals with enormous problems who cannot deal with their own feelings and failings.
The motoring convictions alone defy belief and the imagination and integrity of the explanations offered would make the storytelling of H C Anderson look inadequate. However I have yet to meet an inmate who is not only there because of their self sacrificing attitude to life and their desire to protect the family etc etc. The underclass of lawlessness in the UK is definitely extent and growing and very unlikely to diminish currently. No government has as yet found a solution nor do I think they will. I am not sure that there is such a solution.
For the avoidance of doubt this article is written in jest. I hope it strikes a chord probably CLANG!
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