You will NEVER catch the perpetrator. Period. Also the cost of enforcement will quickly outpace any revenue gained, as council's parking enforcements has shown.
Even when caught says on CCTV, there's no guarantee you can find and fine the driver. There are over half a million uninsured cars on the UK streets at any time. Twice that many uninsured drivers. Even getting them to pay for insurance is hard enough, how difficult do you think it'd be to get them to pay £10k fine?
Driving without insurance should be a jailable offence and needs to be taken far more seriously. You are at risk of not having coverage when you cause significant injury or death to someone. If a breadwinner for a family is no longer able to work, the verdict may be more than you can earn in a lifetime which makes you into some sort of debt slave. Not having insurance when you can inflict severe harm on other people is quite dystopian.
> If a breadwinner for a family is no longer able to work, the verdict may be more than you can earn in a lifetime which makes you into some sort of debt slave.
the bigger issue is the breadwinner's family will go from middle class to living in poverty. The types that don't pay insurance are not gonna pay court settlement in a timely manner.
In the UK for the networks that support eSim, to switch provider you only need to send 2 SMS's, the eSim will then be downloaded to your phone. After a few hours it's ready to go. You keep the same phone number (if you want).
This article from uSwich explains the advantages better than the article:
If you already have a preactivated new SIM card on hand, sure.
Its the activation process that can take a while, not downloading the eSIM (for what its worth, my most recent SIM / eSIM activations were comparable and took only a few minutes).
Issues of standards are not really depending on funding but on organisation and leadership.
The issue mentioned above, and many others that have made the news, are down to the Met police management and leadership, which is not supposed to be political. The Mayor is effectively the Police and Crime Commisioner so he has a direct involvement, and again is currently Labour if we want to assign political 'blame'.
My point is that immediately blaming the Tories for everything and anyhting because "that's what you get when you vote Tory" is a knee jerk reaction.
We're discussing standards or professional conduct.
Funding gets you more police officers but their conduct depends on management and leadership, not on extra funding (at least as long as funding allows for decent salaries).
In this case, and again others that have hit the news, funding is quite irrelevant, the issue is organisational.
That's simply not true. Being very involved with Neighbourhood Watch and a CBV for the Met myself, I can tell you how many times residents reported drug dealings (with legitimate proofs and intel) vs the number of time the police actually did anything.
There are 4 PCSOs, 1 PS and 1 PO covering over 17,000 household where I live. Effective policing is simply not possible, drug related or not.
OP's wording could have been better but you can understand he means images of illegal drugs. Very kind of you to nitpick this, how else could people have known?
Imagine if your job was moderating content and some rando spammed your mod queue with “illegal imagery!!!” (which is not, in fact, factually true) and then you banned them to get rid of the noise, then somehow their story made it to the front of HN.
Ah yes, it’s a clearly objective fact that the OP is a victim of a vast criminal conspiracy. Surely the simpler answer of “OP mass reported a bunch of accounts for off site user behavior and in doing so became a nuisance” is worthy of consideration?
They sold off their robo investing in the UK not long ago. With the way they're focusing on crypto now, I'm glad I no longer have an account with them.
He's right but it's only in optimal condition where you can get cheap rate electricity. Driving in London is very efficient for EVs, you can hit 5mpkWh with ease since traffic is so bad. To cover 100 miles you only need 20kWh, at 5p/kWh off peak charging it's £1/100 miles. Equivalent petrol/diesel at £1.9/l and 55mpg is about £15/100 miles.
For public charging the rate is several times more than 5p/kWh, equalising the numbers somewhat.
Even when caught says on CCTV, there's no guarantee you can find and fine the driver. There are over half a million uninsured cars on the UK streets at any time. Twice that many uninsured drivers. Even getting them to pay for insurance is hard enough, how difficult do you think it'd be to get them to pay £10k fine?