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Why do you suggest that speeding fines should be raised but that points shouldn't be applied to licences?

I can't agree with your suggestion that speeding fines should be raised, but no points should be applied to licences. There are a large number of drivers with very high incomes who are able to shrug off £200 fines without a second thought, or maybe get their businesses to pay them. You see this from the way they accept parking fines when it is convenient for them to flout parking regulations. My pension is hardly £200 a week and such a fine would cause real hardship to many like me. At least penalty points brings it down to a more level playing field and encourages all to keep within the speed limits.

As a matter of interest, I have been driving for 61 years and have avoided speeding convictions. However, with present day driving conditions such as they are, it is always possible to inadvertently overstep the mark, but to do it regularly to amass sufficient points to get banned shows a lack of concern for other peoples' safety and they deserve all they get.

Asked on 15 December 2010 by AS, Daventry

Answered by Honest John
If people are earning enough to shrug off £200 fines, or if the fines are paid by their companies, that's great. These are the people who are generating income for the country and the fines helps the Treasury sort out the chaos left by 13 years of Cloud Cuckoo Land under Labour. Britain remains a nation of whiners. In Britain, disabled people get given cars. In Thailand they get dumped beside the road with a tin cup. Britain has a 4.3 trillion pound national debt. Thailand has none. China has more than a billion people living on less than £1 a day, yet funds Britain’s debt. Britain has been living on borrowed money for too long and no one seems prepared to accept the horrible reality of that.
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