19. LAWS.
'GIVE A MAN A FISH AND HE WILL FEED FOR A DAY. TEACH HIM HOW TO FISH AND HE WILL FEED HIMSELF FOR A LIFE TIME'.
The subtlety and expertise is having just the correct laws and only those edits which are necessary offering the desired balance. People will demand legislation to suit only themselves, calling for restrictions after an event - when the true need is to apply a policy in advance from which everybody will benefit. Un-fortunately, Britain adopts the system of 'trial by example'.
Effective training commences in the home. It is the duty and responsibility of every parent to train their child from birth. There are two alternatives. The proud parents can idolise their new off-spring as if it is God, until it believes that it is beyond reproach, or the child can receive the correct guidance which it deserves. Another alternative is that the parents, themselves, have not been properly trained or that they are not interested. Parents can hold the opinion that everybody, but themselves, is responsible for training their pride and joy, if the responsibility is not upon their shoulders.
It is the duty of every parent to ensure that their child receives the best attention, training, guidance and education which is available. In this context, it means driving a car or using the road correctly from the out-set.
Experience matures, obviously, with a driver practising continually the five, basic, major rules of driving which are - all in 1288.
A parent must instil this teaching into a child until it becomes as natural as breathing. A parent must emphasise, to a young person, the importance of not hesitating to vacate a car, if the driver is obviously in-competent or flagrantly 'showing-off': it might prevent a fatality and, secondly, it should humble the culprit into sensibility.
In the late nineteen-fifties the government saw fit introducing a safety test -commonly known as the MOT test introduced because drivers blamed the car not the driver's incompetence. Typically, it emphasis that legislation prefers levying in excess of a £ a week rather than educating drivers, which is the main objective.
'The worst politicians will display their in-competence the longer they sit on the benches'.