
PARENTS could be banned from teaching their children to drive, a respectable headmaster is facing a competence tribunal because his fishing rod licence had expired, and a disabled 82-year-old faces a £35 fine because she was parked with her disabled badge upside-down.
An archbishop's secretary faces a £1,000 fine because she hadn't realised she was 20p short on her Oyster card credit, and the inspector wouldn't take cash, and finally an 81-year-old 5ft tall pensioner who needs two sticks to walk and has a broken wrist is deemed as "potentially dangerous" by social services.
The reason Labour polled so badly last Thursday and why Jacqui Smith might lose her seat at the next General Election, is not the 10p tax debacle or the high cost of fuel, bad as they are, but that the public see the country as being run by idiots.
As with Communist Russia and China, being in power has gone to the heads of our uneducated leaders.
Don Vincent
Winyates East
Redditch