Reply to: Dirty Robbing Bastards!

[NickFitz]

but was just wondering if anybody was familiar with the term "sense of entitlement"?

[Freamon]

36 million motorists in the UK, 10% renewing every year means an extra £72m in the govt coffers in stealth tax, no counting all the PCV and HGV licence renewals

Except it's probably a "priced process" which IBM charge the DVLA at least £20 to carry out each time.

[AtW]

mine is so bad it looks like a child went a bit mad with etcho-sketch.

It's the new you.

If you spend any more time on CUK you'll age quicker and become dumber faster, soon you'll lose will to live, so better get out of here while you can.

HTH

[wim121]

£20 is cheap every 10 years for something as essential as driving license - priting it, processing letters cost money you know.

Yes but the quality is terrible nowadays.

I used to use my license card with the colour photo as ID (because yes, I am that beautiful and youthful) but in recent years, they have started doing black and white sketches of your photo, mine is so bad it looks like a child went a bit mad with etcho-sketch.

Anyway in short, be aware of the shoddy quality on licenses now and if you get ID'd sometimes or even need to show ID for assignments, you may have to buy additional ID.

[MarillionFan]

Hee hee. Still got my nice old paper one. I also still have my petrol vouchers issued during Edward Heath's fuel shortage thing. Never know when I might need them.

Forgot to mention, a Jesus Christ phoned earlier Xoggoth asking if you still had that shekel he lent you.

[stek]

AIUI the licence doesn't expire until you're 70, but the photo does after 10 years, so better get a new pic without the mullett.

[SimonMac]

£20 is cheap every 10 years for something as essential as driving license - priting it, processing letters cost money you know.

But if you didn't have to renew the licence there would be no associated cost for printing or processing letters

[SimonMac]

I'm a joke that no one finds funny anymore, or ever did for that matter.

FTFY

[russell]

I'm on Workfare so only get JSA + Travelling costs

Good to see you can take a joke.

[AtW]

36 million motorists in the UK, 10% renewing every year means an extra £72m in the govt coffers in stealth tax, no counting all the PCV and HGV licence renewals

£20 is cheap every 10 years for something as essential as driving license - priting it, processing letters cost money you know.

[Troll]

Same here, in fact I've got two, one with (now expired) points on and one that's clean.

<ahem> did anyone else do the "send off for a new one as soon as you knew you were going to get points added" trick. A friend says he did it all the time

[Support Monkey]

And just something else to think about for anyone sending their licence to the DVLA, if you have motorcycle entitlement, make a copy of your license before you send it because they have a bad habit of not putting the motorcycle entitlement back on the new licence and then you have to prove you had entitlement in the first place and if you cannot you will have to take a retest

[SimonMac]

Why don't you do a few more shifts at Aldi and you'll earn the £20 in not time.

I'm on Workfare so only get JSA + Travelling costs

[russell]

Letter from DVLA saying my driving licence was about to expire, and they would demand £20 for the privilege just to renew it

Can I expense it?

Why don't you do a few more shifts at Aldi and you'll earn the £20 in not time.

[SimonMac]

Hardly a stealth tax. If it gets some old gits who can't see their hands in front of their faces by not letting them renew it's ok for me.

But there is no test or anything on renewing, its fill in a form with a new photo, so its not keeping anyone off the road who deserves to be