Above left the lovely Ms Julie Lennard, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency (DVLA). Above right, moi’s ugly mug!
In this morning’s post there arrived by replacement photocard driving licence. The old one was due to expire on 21st February 2024 and with a motor car being essential where I live I decided to apply for it’s replacement to allow plenty of time for the staff at the DVLA to process the application and issue a new licence. Allowing over 7 weeks may appear to some readers overdoing it a tad; but that is to ignore the possibility of the hard working folk at the DVLA being besieged by climate zealots such as “Just Stop Oil” from barricading themselves around the building allowing nobody in an nobody out. This of course on the pretext to “Save the Planet!”
Happily however the good folk at the DVLA were not disrupted by people believing that humanity was facing extinction (from “global boiling” ?????) and they were able to issue the replacement photocard licence in just a few days.
Contained in the covering document that was enclosed with the photocard was the following:
“Not sure what to do with your old licence? Cut it in half then send it to DVLA Swansea SA99 1ZW”
As a result, I have duly cut the old item in half and have posted it to the DVLA c/o Ms Lennard, with an attached letter the text of which is below:
Dear Ms Lennard,
Never have I found a task more pleasurable than the one I am now required to perform upon the instructions of the state; the task of cutting my old photocard licence in half and returning it to you, presumably for destruction!
Why?
Well just look at it and compare it with the replacement! At the top left there was the EU flag. A flag of a foreign power (the EU possessing a legal identity separate from it’s members since the Treaty of Lisbon). This of course in contradiction and defiance of the 1688 Declaration of Rights ratified into law by the 1689 Bill of Rights Act that requires that His Majesty’s Privy Counsellors ensure that no foreign power, prince or potentate shall have precedence in this land!
In happy contrast the replacement licence has the Union Flag in the top right corner and lower down on the right side a representation of the Royal Arms!
This is why that throughout the possession of the said expired licence, I kept it hidden in an inner part of my wallet as the mere sight of it offended me and of course to any of His Majesty’s Loyal Subjects!
Reflecting upon Her late and much lamented Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, it is a blessing indeed that our late Most Gracious Sovereign Lady was able to go forth from this world into the next AFTER Brexit and was thus able to ensure that Her Coronation Oath which required Her to Govern Us in accordance with Our Laws and Customs and NOT those of such as the European Union of the Cities and the Regions was complied with!
I remain Madam, His Majesty’s Loyal Subject,
Peter H. Rogers.