I DISAGREE with changing the law over young drivers.

Changes will only be used to further persecute responsible drivers, as everything else has been. The law cannot, in the present climate, be used to influence young people.

They have parents who can't control them, so what chance has anyone else?

They are in shops and supermarkets from an early age, kicking and screaming, with a mother who can only appeal with: "don't do that, please."

Over the past 50 years, Communist doctrine from every part of the media, unions, politics, etc, has taken away the authority of teachers, policemen on the beat, and, law and propriety in every form.

We are now living in a hoodlum society, riddled with sex, drugs, foul language, porn and depravity. Long ago, Mary Whiteside was laughed at for complaining, and it's really the pits now.

Can anyone do anything with the "speedsters?" Jail them? Out of the question. Fine them? No. Stop them driving? They will either take dad's car or steal one.

Stop them drink-driving? No way. If you want to feel sorry for anyone it should the ordinary law-abiding motorist, who has money, occupation and a house and family to keep.

He can be made to toe the line or ruined. His teenage son can't. So don't try. We are living in a police state, but the kids are not.

Some kids in school carry knives and can knock hell out of one another, but no one else can lift a finger towards them. And they know it.

A WALMSLEY, Greenside Avenue, Blackburn.