WHAT SHOULD WE DO WITH BANNED DRIVERS?

 

"A wedding caterer who caused the death of a guest after driving while banned has avoided returning to jail after appeal judges reduced his prison term".

What is to be done with people who are banned from driving?

It only happened to me once, when I was banned for 3 months for exceeding my points for speeding.  Now in saying that, I did drive a fast car which was capable of higher speeds and shorter braking distances than most and I was driving 60,000 miles per year.  I think we all see drivers and say, "fuck me, they shouldn't be driving"!!!  Usually to be fair, old, doddery bastards, like my father-in-law, who as many of you know died at the beginning of the year and had great difficulty walking, never mind driving.

But does, banning someone from driving teach them a lesson?  Or is it better, to send them on a course of some sort, at their expense of course and at least let them continue to drive in the meantime.  How many people have lost their jobs after being totted up for a driving ban because of cameras?

In my case I was fortunate that I had my own business and I could get my wife to drive me about, although it did affect my business to some extent and probably cost the jobs of some of my employees, a fact that the old fucker, who tried me, didn't seem to be able to comprehend.

Coming up to Christmas, we will have the 'drink drive campaign'.  Now, I don't in this day and age have any sympathy with some prick who gets pished in the pub and drives home. However, they seem to take a delight in Scotland at stopping people at 8.30 in the morning when they are going to their work and might be slightly over the limit from the night before.  When I was drinking heavily, I never took an early appointment in December.  Although, in the 70's, I did it on more than one occasion.  On one celebrated Christmas party with my lads drinking 20+ Whiskies, (Scottish measures) and 6 half pints and driving  up the High Street and demolishing the road sign on the way into my street.  I accept that that was wrong, but they were different times.

I don't think however, that jailing someone who is banned for speeding serves any purposes, other than letting general society, chuckle and rub their hands in glee. Does it make them a better or worse driver?

How worse is it to mug some old granny of her pension and get off with it as happens now?  When are we going to regard, crimes of violence, higher than a driving offence?  Of course, if someone is totally reckless and someone is killed that is a  completely different matter, but let's get things into perspective!

WHAT DOES IT MATTER IF THEY'RE PAEDOS, IT'S A LOAD OF SHITE ANYWAY!

Every morning he rises at 6am to pray. Yet Vincent Nichols, the 64-year-old leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, is not looking for celestial inspiration for next week’s Papal visit.
But the four-day visit by Benedict XVI, which begins next Thursday, has triggered fierce criticism because of the Pope’s ‘inadequate’ reaction to the scandal of paedophile priests.

As most of you know, I don't give a fuck about any of the 'mainstream' religions.  I'm sure there are Paedophiles in all religions not just the Catholic one.  Who has the 'best imaginary friend' is a game played by all, religions.  Actually your belief, if you have one, is for your imaginary friend and 'religion' is the business that has built up around it.  However if it suits you, fair enough.  What is surprising to me, is that the Catholics, rather than the Pakistani Muslims or the Jews have been more successful at making money out of it, knowing their predication for making money!
My Father-in-Law, a Catholic all his life and one who attended church on a weekly basis even if he didn't always agree with what the Priest was saying, is dying form  a particular virulent cancer.  He's 84 and instead of embracing death as a new chapter in his life, is IMO shitting himself.  So you ask yourself, what has it all been for?  Has it all been worth it?  I don't like to ask him to come back and give me a sign, in case I'm totally wrong, which wouldn't be the first time, BTW! 

SCOTTISH BEVVY FIGURES ARE A NATIONAL DISGRACE

SOME of the most deprived parts of Glasgow have an alcohol related death rate more than five times the UK average, official figures show. The figures show five city constituencies in the 10 highest for drink related deaths. Shettleston, which includes much of the East End, is the worst in Scotland, with 76 deaths per 100,000 population. Across the UK it is 13.3. Maryhill is more than four times the UK rate while Springburn, Baillieston and Govan are also in the 10 worst.

Only nine constituencies in Scotland were below the UK average, with Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale, in the Borders, the lowest at just four per 100,000 people.

The 10 highest as a percentage of UK average were: Shettleston 574; Maryhill 420; Greenock/Inverclyde 371; Dundee East 347; Springburn 333; Baillieston 331; Cathcart 292; Govan 289; Paisley 288; Hamilton N/ Bellshill 285.


Evidence in my estimation that something must be done soon to stop ridiculously high percentage of our citizens from dying from the bevvy. If that means squeezing the price of cheap Cider and Alcopops, then that's what we must do. Youngsters are getting hooked on this cheap drink and when you mix it with drugs it becomes a lethal combination. I know BTW because I drunk like a fish for 36 years and I am regretting it now!


It's time we gave people hope and some light at the end of the tunnel in their lives so that they DON'T HAVE TO WASTE THEMSELVES GETTING PISHED OUT OF THEIR BRAINS EVERY DAY!