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Originally Posted by Footie
flecc posted:
.... There should also be a requirement to take and pass the full driving test in future before his licence is restored ....
I think when people use a vehicle like this (as a weapon) they should loss their licence for life.
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I'm taking the realistic view of what could happen of course, rather than any ideal.
Where the length of prison sentence is concerned, I have a rooted objection to keeping people in prison for many years at a cost to us of well over £1000 per person per week. After all, it's they who should be punished, not us.
I'd like to see very much shorter sentences for most offences, to a miserable prison regime with all day hard work, the identical bowl of stew and a chunk of rye bread and water only to drink every day, and no amenities like TV, visiting privileges etc.
That way most sentences could be slashed to a fraction of their present length and be far more effective deterrents with the cost to us massively reduced. At present a sentence actually brings an improvement to their life for many convicts, and that is about as daft as a system could be.
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