baronlebon
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Hi Y'all.
Just got back from a trip.Portsmouth-St malo overnight,La rochelle overnight.Then on to Sarlat La Caneda for 1 night,Biarritz stayed 1 night.On to Suances west of Santander,4 nights in a nice hotel.
Visited the Moto Piston Rallye at Colombres (great event),rode some of the picos(but not enough).Back Santander-Portsmouth.Super trip!!
Anyway back to the point of this post.Was talking to some French individuals on the boat over and apparently the points system in France is not only fairer but cheaper!It goes like this.
You start off with 12 points on your licence.
If you get caught speeding (they give a 10% + or - allowance) up to 15 Kms per hour over you get deducted 1 point.The points get higher the higher the speed.I.e 25 Kms per hour over 2 points and so on.They can even take your licence away for a long period if you were going stupidly fast(the amount of time they were unsure about because they did'nt know anyone this had happened to).
The fine for a speeding offence is E35,yes 35 euros and if by some very remote chance your points start to get near to zero over a 3 year period you can go on a 1 day training course that costs E250 and you are awarded 4 points back!
This keeps drivers on the road paying the fines and puts money in the government coffers via the training,excellent idea and more proof that rip off Britain is exactly that.The more I go to Europe and especially France I see a system/country that is run by the people for the people,little poverty,everyone has a decent standard of living,less taxation,less crime,cheaper houses,cheaper cost of living,more relaxed pace of life,no chavs,morons etc,waffle,waffle.
Don't get me wrong I love England but we seem to be going in the wrong direction and we're gonna be full up in the next 20 years before our self interested not needed 600 odd MPs have finished filling in their expenses.
Anyway some debate please and for those of you who say alright chummy why don't you f**k of over there then,give me 5 years to get a cunning plan together.......Oh and also why are we supposed to hate the French,I have never met a more honest,pleasant,helpful race in all my years on mother earth!
Cheers.
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Just got back from a trip.Portsmouth-St malo overnight,La rochelle overnight.Then on to Sarlat La Caneda for 1 night,Biarritz stayed 1 night.On to Suances west of Santander,4 nights in a nice hotel.
Visited the Moto Piston Rallye at Colombres (great event),rode some of the picos(but not enough).Back Santander-Portsmouth.Super trip!!
Anyway back to the point of this post.Was talking to some French individuals on the boat over and apparently the points system in France is not only fairer but cheaper!It goes like this.
You start off with 12 points on your licence.
If you get caught speeding (they give a 10% + or - allowance) up to 15 Kms per hour over you get deducted 1 point.The points get higher the higher the speed.I.e 25 Kms per hour over 2 points and so on.They can even take your licence away for a long period if you were going stupidly fast(the amount of time they were unsure about because they did'nt know anyone this had happened to).
The fine for a speeding offence is E35,yes 35 euros and if by some very remote chance your points start to get near to zero over a 3 year period you can go on a 1 day training course that costs E250 and you are awarded 4 points back!
This keeps drivers on the road paying the fines and puts money in the government coffers via the training,excellent idea and more proof that rip off Britain is exactly that.The more I go to Europe and especially France I see a system/country that is run by the people for the people,little poverty,everyone has a decent standard of living,less taxation,less crime,cheaper houses,cheaper cost of living,more relaxed pace of life,no chavs,morons etc,waffle,waffle.
Don't get me wrong I love England but we seem to be going in the wrong direction and we're gonna be full up in the next 20 years before our self interested not needed 600 odd MPs have finished filling in their expenses.
Anyway some debate please and for those of you who say alright chummy why don't you f**k of over there then,give me 5 years to get a cunning plan together.......Oh and also why are we supposed to hate the French,I have never met a more honest,pleasant,helpful race in all my years on mother earth!
Cheers.
Baron
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