Robin's Diary 18th August 2017

I have just read a piece on the BBC website about drivers with more than 12 points on their licence who have not been banned! In fact, more than 10,000 motorists have more than 12 points, and the north of England has the most! This particularly annoys me, as I got three tickets, all within 5 MPH of the limit of either 30 or 40 a while back and had to survive two and a half years without another, yet it now appears that I, like 10,000 others, could have got away with it!! Surely if 12 points is the limit, that’s it, and rather than letting people carry on regardless, why not adjust the length of the ban to the crime??

That brings me onto another bugbear - why on earth do they ban people from driving who are not old enough to drive, or who didn’t have a licence in the first place? They didn’t care before when they didn’t have a licence so why would they be concerned with a ban? I could go on about Proceeds of Crime etc, but as the law breakers seem to have more rights than others it seems a bit of a waste of time.

On a much brighter note, well done to the 4 x 100 metre relay team, putting one over the Yanks at the World Athletics Championships, a brilliant team achievement!

“Fairness is what justice really is.” Potter Stewart