I can't agree with your suggestion that speeding fines should be raised, but no points should be applied to licences. There are a large number of drivers with very high incomes who are able to shrug off £200 fines without a second thought, or maybe get their businesses to pay them. You see this from the way they accept parking fines when it is convenient for them to flout parking regulations. My pension is hardly £200 a week and such a fine would cause real hardship to many like me. At least penalty points brings it down to a more level playing field and encourages all to keep within the speed limits.

As a matter of interest, I have been driving for 61 years and have avoided speeding convictions. However, with present day driving conditions such as they are, it is always possible to inadvertently overstep the mark, but to do it regularly to amass sufficient points to get banned shows a lack of concern for other peoples' safety and they deserve all they get.