It doesn’t surprise me. At the height of the first lockdown (the one people actually paid attention to) the roads were empty but around here the idiots with tweaked-up hatchbacks were out burning rubber etc. I have been passed far too many times by morons driving at around twice to three times the speed limit seemingly immune to police challenge. That behaviour seems to remain even though the streets are now full of vehicles again. Then there is the drug abuse. I am convinced about one in ten drivers around here is either pissed or stoned. The amount of open skunk/cannabis use is just astonishing, you smell it everywhere in the north of England. Including from car windows. Driving when drugged/pissed should carry a serious penalty IMO, e.g. prison or a truly life-changing fine.
PS I’m pretty liberal when it comes to drug law as I fully grasp just how destructive the violent gang culture that supplies it is and I’d like to see this multi-£bn industry fully taxed and paying its way rather than expecting the rest of us to clean up its mess at our expense. Humans take drugs, that is just a reality, so we may as well get it to pay its way and only criminalise behaviour dangerous to others.
