Compulsory re-testing for over 65's

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If you go on the basis of only people that can afford to drive will be privileged enough.. What about someone that drives for a living. if they need to drive to earn the money to be able To afford to drive (wow that sentence hurt my head)

Your all getting me wrong. Im saying that driving is a privilage not a right regardless of class! People shouldnt automatically assume that they have a right to drive even if they are shit at it.

Also there is alot of jobs that you require special licences / tickets to do and alot of employers will pay for people to get these licences when they find the right people. Stuff like operating diggers on construction sites and SIA licences

You go on about wealth but the highest percentage of bad drivers are daddy's boys who get powerful cars given to them and don't appreciate what they have because "it's ok daddy will fix it" you'll find the people who's first car was a 20yr old 1.1 fiesta will look after it because they struggle to keep it on the road so won't want to smash it up! We are a good example of this, lets face it we all drive old cars now, when you park in a carpark your careful not to bang your door into the next car because you wouldn't want it happening to you. Who's the people who usually just open the door without giving a shit? Executive car drivers and 4x4's! The same group of people who are steaming up and down the outside lane of the motorway at 100mph or tailgating and trying to intimidate other drivers.
also the biggest part of drink drivers are the higher earners who think nothing of having a bottle of wine with their cheese board and driving home combing their ancestral quiff!

We can all stereotype people because of their social status!

Bad driving comes from every faction of society, TRUST ME, it just tends to be more obvious with cocks with fast cars because theyer going faster with their bad driving.

Also in my experience drink drivers arent poshos, they're entirely lower middle class, the sort of person with a job and a criminal record.

No matter how much right wing Daily Mail garbage you guys want to throw in, a 10 year compulsory retest will only put more of a squeeze on low income families which would inevitably result in thousands of families losing their licence because they can't afford the retest. For many of these this could mean also losing jobs.

I agree there are too many cars on the road but until the govt improve public transport (e.g. nationalise the lot) a car is required to get to many places of work. Do you think low income families should be pushed out of potential jobs because they can't afford yet another expense to run a car?

A 10 year retest wont put more of a squeeze on low earners, we come back to the if you cant afford it, dont drive. Whats a test at the moment, about £50? So £50 over 10 years is £5 a year or 42p a month. Im sorry but if you cant spare 42p a month then you dont have the money to run a car and shouldn't be driving.


I do agree about public transport being re nationalised, how is it right that big companies are making millions of pounds off it but yet the service gets worse? At least if it was the government making the money they could use it to improve the service or more likely start a bombing campaign on some country ive never heard of.