letter in the Financial Times<\/a> (you have to register, but it\u2019s free) is from Julian Malins, QC (he\u2019s signed it, so that\u2019s why I\u2019m mentioning him by name). It came through in the newsfeeds with the headline title \u201cDriving test is too difficult so many do not bother at all”, so it naturally caught my attention.<\/p>\nIt is all to do with a previous FT story about the declining numbers of young people taking the driving test, explained as being due to financial constraints and the like.<\/p>\n
Our expert QC berates the FT for this. Apparently, it is obvious (to him, at any rate) that the only reason people don\u2019t take the driving test as much is that it is too hard!<\/strong><\/p>\nIt would appear that his sole source of evidence is that the police once told him that as much as 10% of all drivers on the M25 at any time are unlicensed.<\/p>\n
He should look outside of London, EC4 (he probably isn\u2019t aware that people even live outside of EC4). In some places, notably in Yorkshire, as many as 90% of all drivers are uninsured or unlicensed in some areas, and I got that<\/strong> off the police in those cop shows on cable.<\/p>\nI\u2019m not sure what our expert QC would suggest, though if you join the dots the obvious answer is that the test should be made easier or just abolished. Malins suggests that this is why magistrates courts are filled with these people.<\/p>\n
You have to wonder how such na\u00efvet\u00e9 could be found in someone who is actually capable of destroying someone\u2019s life as a result of these totally inaccurate beliefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OK, I suppose they\u2019re not that rare – QCs who think they know it all, that is – but whenever they open their mouths you still have to wonder what planet they come from. This letter in the Financial Times (you have to register, but it\u2019s free) is from Julian Malins, QC (he\u2019s signed it, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80,86,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t