On 15/02/2020 11:15, TMS320 wrote:
On 14/02/2020 18:27, JNugent wrote:
On 14/02/2020 14:49, TMS320 wrote:
On 14/02/2020 10:47, Simon Mason wrote:

He said: "The first victim was flat out in the road not moving
because he seemed to be entangled in his racing bicycle. He was being
attended to by a passing first aider.

"The second man, a builder, was laying on the pavement outside Travis
Perkins' front door with head injuries and blood coming from his
wounds."

Not surprising. Fleet is a very popular town for the elderly. A
system that relies on the applicant's honesty can't be a good way of
extending driving licences.

Can you think of many transactions between the state and the citizen
which don't rely to some extent on the good faith of the citizen?

Even a passport application, though vetted more than most
transactions, ultimately relies upon the word of a person "of
standing" who says they know the applicant.

Off hand, I can't think of anything equivalent to a driving licence that
requires a declaration of fitness to perform a task.

Government services I use are linked to an address. Apart from self
assessment which requires honesty but nobody dies over an error of a
couple of hundred Pounds.

So you *can't* think of many transactions between the state and the
citizen which don't rely to some extent on the good faith of the citizen?