Talk Morgan Forums Thread Like Summary - Driving licence at risk..?

I picked this up on a random news feed which might be of interest.. If like me you might be on the wrong side of 70 it has been suggested that if you drive less than 2k miles per annum, then you should consider returning your driving licence to the DVLA...

At age 77 I still held police response and pursuit tickets so up yours young guns.

Sex & travel came to my mind

"....consider returning " ???
Whoever that was, "up" and "yours" come to mind.....

George ... although there does seem to be an agenda to suggest anyone driving past 70 is some sort of danger (plays well with gobby young urbanites who already brand boomers as responsible for all the world's ills) ... present govt sees Oldies as 'probably Tories' and therefore fair game, as hitting them to meet their green or fiscal targets won't lose them votes (and plays to the aforementioned gobby young urbanites who probably do vote for them) ... again, there's no current suggestion of compulsion and I'd guess the majority of 'sub 2k' drivers would be over 70.

Worth keeping an eye on for 'mission creep' but currently they're saying " if you're near the end of your driving career and do less than 2k miles a year then you may save money by ditching the cumulative expenses of a car and using other forms of transport instead " .... sort of advice you might get from some TV financial pundit.

Worth keeping an eye out though .... the govt wants people out of their cars and us over 70s are a politically easy target ... we can expect more 'facts' about how 'high-risk' we are, more newspaper coverage of 'oldies in accidents' (and less 'teenage speeder kills six!' type stories) ... and more hoops to jump through to keep our licences (to wear us down)

K

This is exactly how purveyors of Rage Bait like GB News, Daily Mail, Daily Express et al work. They'll find something, possibly something actually quite sensible, that someone has said, and spin it into something specifically designed to get people frothing at the mouth.

So "As you get older, it might be sensible to look at alternatives to driving in view of the costs and risks." becomes "The Wokerati are going to take your driving licenses away if you're old."

They get pretty desperate at times when confronted with undeniably good things that have been done by somebody with whom they are ideologically opposed, like the news from the government that they've deported 16,500 illegal immigrants in the first 6 months since they've come to power.

Reponses have been along the lines of "Yebbut some of them were voluntary" as if somehow somebody recognising they are in the country illegally and agreeing to go home is a failure, or "Yebbut there's loads of them and this is barely a scratch" as if the government are going to stop now instead of ramping up the deportations now they've starting to get a grip on the situation.

TBM has noted in the past how they teach kids critical thinking through the SMART acronym (Source, Motivation, Audience, Reaction, Testable) which I think is a flipping good principle to apply to anything one sees. Who is this person? Why are they telling me this? Why have they identified me to tell? What do they want me to think? How do I know it's true?