It has been suggested that, bearing in mind there are anoraky people who collect tax discs, the last ones issued might become "Collectable", for the financial benefit of your children's children I guess!

My own view is it is simply to cover up how bad the police and criminal justice system is.

At the moment I can see that all those "travellers" are driving transits with no vaalid tax disk, and I correctly tick one off as another set of people the police are too frightened to intervene against.

Now none of us will immediately spot such vans and cars are untaxed, and the police inaction will be less obvious.

There's bound to be some degree of nuisance during a changeover like this. But let's admit that the system of sticking little discs on the windscreen as well as carrying a reg.plate is clumsy and an anachronism. In Canada 50 years ago (Alberta anyway) the plate was changed annually and served as a 'tax disc' - prisoners made them instead of mailbags. This had the disadvantage that your reg. kept changing (so did the colour). In the US you could keep the plate, but applied a new sticker to it - which seems little better than a tax disc.

But with ANPR everywhere a disc seems superfluous ?