L-earner drivers

Your 17th birthday is one of those really important birthday's you have during your lifetime. It is the year the UK Government gives you the right to learn how to drive, own a car with your own insurance and go driving freely with a Full UK License (or an automatic one).

Now, there are good and bad instructors around the country who make it their job to train you as a good, safe and responsible defensive driver and on today's roads, you can see why it is more of a responsibility than a career as a driver for any of us.

The ruling around licenses is quite silly I think. You can apply for a provisional license in the UK and you can keep it until the day you hit 80, or something around that age. It also allows you to take and retake as many Theory and Practical tests as you wish. If you fail one, you just keep resitting until you pass.

However, I view this as a dangerous allowance. Provisional licenses should only be valid for a period of 2 years maximum and they should limit the number of retakes you can have on either test.

Expanding on this idea, I think that after you go over a limit for retakes, or you take 2 years or more learning to drive, you are deemed a dangerous road user and should be banned from driving for 5 years. In that 5 years, you are expected to revise for a theory test, sit the test and if you pass, you have the ban lifted and you can continue driving before your 5 year ban is up.

None of this "go on, you'll be fine" nonsense where you can go and not worry about passing or failing because you have an infinite amount of chances. Money is however, a worry.

I can think of a great deal of items that this wasted money could be spent on. Mobile phones, Televisions, Clothing, Music from iTunes (as I am all for legal downloads of course), Digital Cameras and also some fitness equipment to keep yourself healthy.

If you are really bad at driving and struggle to pass the first hurdle, the Theory Test, then I think you should give up and spend your money elsewhere, rather than throwing your money down the drain, or giving it to shape-changing Jews.

For those who have passed their driving tests and are fully qualified drivers, be it in the UK or elsewhere then I wish you every success in your driving career and I hope you don't crash and burn.

A Rule of War

I have found myself to be quite simply, the battlefield guru. Not only am I joining the UK Armed Forces, specifically the RAF, but my cousin is serving in the Army and my Uncle once served in that same force.

It goes without saying, that I have military blood, as well as flying blood, inside of me.

As I am sure a good number of you will know, there are specific rules in war. One set is called the Rules of Engagement and if you are the UN Peacekeeping Forces, they have one rule which reads "If you are shot at, stand your ground, don't open fire, and die."

I am perfectly happy with Rules of Engagement anyway, well, the ones set by the Ministry of Defense of course. The focus of this blog wasn't on those rules, but on another set of rules that every country has to follow. Show your thanks to the UN for this by blowing up their headquarters for all of our sakes.

I was watching one of my favourite programmes on television last night about doctors and nurses who work in Afghanistan with the British Army and the Royal Air Force. I was pleased to hear that our country is the only country out there that operates a Medical Emergency Rescue Team (MERT). This means, we are the only country that flies doctors and nurses TO the patient, rather than flying the patient to the medical professionals.

As the programme reached the end, the cameraman was on the MERT Chinook helicopter and I was incredibly angry to see that because of the UN's stupid nation-hugging bullcrap, they had to treat a Taleban fighter.

They blindfolded him and carried him onto the helicopter, to take him to the main operating base in Afghanistan to treat him for his injuries. It disgusts me to see that our troops spend their tour getting shot at, killed, or injured by these scumbags yet we have to treat them otherwise the UN cries and jumps on our backs about Human Rights. Cue shitty pointless charities to come and protest for the cause.

If I had my way, which obviously I don't, I would say that they should get the Taleban insurgent onboard the helicopter, take off to a good altitude, then throw him out of the back.

It is better than treating him, and sending him back to fight once more and probably kill one of our troops.

We should scrap that part of the Geneva Convention.