Isn't it time the government scrapped the road tax?

With record numbers of unlicensed vehicles on our roads - and they therefore must be uninsured - isn't it time to scrap the road tax altogether?

Why not add the requisite pence, to make up the deficit, to the cost of petrol and diesel?

Now all we need to do is to sort out uninsured drivers, unqualified drivers who are causing increasing problems, underage drivers, disqualified drivers who insist on driving despite their bans, 'joyriders', and car thieves!

Just a tiny problem! How shall we spend the afternoon?

Those who drove more would pay more - and gas guzzlers would pay more too. And my bete noir, the youngsters who have just passed their tests, think they know it all, and regularly accelerate to at least double the speed limit between speed humps or chicanes would perhaps realise that they too could conserve money by driving more responsibly.