OK so how and why does a person who is unable to drive get a licence?

asim18

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I'm getting fed up of this crap. More and more people who cant drive seem to be getting driving licences from somewhere?

My parked car has been scraped badly by someone who, in my humble opinion, has been wrongfully issued a licence. The woman clearly cannot drive yet how is she legally behind the wheel of a motor vehicle?

It just doesn't make sense. Is this some sort of scam to make insurance companies richer? Is there some sort of quota for them to issue licences to people who cant drive so insurance companies can drive up prices? I'm certain sex also has something to do with it.
 
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This woman was not an immigrant. She had a lovely local accent and her boyfriend or whatever sounded welsh.
 
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Outside of the EU, very few foreign licences can be swapped for UK ones.

Andorra, Australia, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Japan, Monaco, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland and Zimbabwe.

You can only drive in the UK on a foreign licence for 1 year.

As for complaining about minicabs picking up passengers outside night clubs, one of the most pointless things to be complaining about. Black cabs do the same as well.
 
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Black cabs although irritating, aren't half as bad as minicabs. Do you live in London? I deal with this every single day of my life.
 
If I were to ever hit a parked car like that I would go home and seriously think about what I had done and how on earth I managed to do it and make sure it NEVER happens again. I do hope she learns from this.

Apparently I'm not allowed to take pictures of her car too.
 
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Diddums said:
Black cabs although irritating, aren't half as bad as minicabs. Do you live in London? I deal with this every single day of my life.
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I do live in London. I have driven through shoreditch, liverpool street, farringdon, southbank etc. after midnight on my way home many times. Even with the minicabs picking passengers up, the traffic is far better than during the day.

The west end also has the same type of traffic created by black cabs. I don't see them being any more courteous. It's just a result of so many pickups happening at once.

It's not a problem. The police are usually around and they don't feel there is a need to intervene.

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Apparently I'm not allowed to take pictures of her car too. Stupid *****.
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In a public place you can take photos of anything and anyone else.
 
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muon said:
You can only drive in the UK on a foreign licence for 1 year.
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Something which is almost impossible to enforce if the licence holder knows what to say to the police. I used to live in South East London and often drove in places like Thamesmead, Ilford and Woolwich - having seen some of the driving there, I refuse to believe that all these people have passed a UK driving test. A particular favourite of the Africans was to wander around both sides of the roads, alternating between 15 and 25 MPH only to panic swerve at the last minute when they finally noticed a car coming the other way. It was almost as if they had no idea what they were doing! :p
 
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Outside of the EU, very few foreign licences can be swapped for UK ones.

Andorra, Australia, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Japan, Monaco, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland and Zimbabwe.
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Yes, but can you imagine how easy it is to get a ropey license from an acquiantance from some of these places! ~£400 is cheaper and easier than driving lessons and tests.
 
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I do live in London. I have driven through shoreditch, liverpool street, farringdon, southbank etc. after midnight on my way home many times. Even with the minicabs picking passengers up, the traffic is far better than during the day.

The west end also has the same type of traffic created by black cabs. I don't see them being any more courteous. It's just a result of so many pickups happening at once.

It's not a problem. The police are usually around and they don't feel there is a need to intervene.



In a public place you can take photos of anything and anyone else.
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Perhaps I have a much shorter fuse than you, dunno. I've also been spoiled by learning to drive and getting my licence in Holland where the standards of driving and discipline are on a whole different level.
 
Diddums said:
Perhaps I have a much shorter fuse than you, dunno. I've also been spoiled by learning to drive and getting my licence in Holland where the standards of driving and discipline are on a whole different level.
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If you say so.

If your barometer of driving standards is how cabs drive outside busy nightclubs in the middle of the night, then I doubt you'd come up with any city in the world with good driving.
 
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