Been driving 41 years and never driven a car that was not taxed. I did not even slump to the "tax in post" sticker that many used to put over the tax disk hoping to fool the ploice.

So why should the scum be allowed to drive untaxed. Clamping is too good for them, car should be confiscated, auctioned and the funds raised given to the NHS.

That would hopefully ensure more compliance with the law.

Apparently they will need this money as a Department for Transport's survey published today shows that the number of vehicles without road tax doubled to 560,000 this summer, since the paper tax disc was abolished in October 2014.

The loss in revenue for the government is "significant", he said, having risen from £35m in 2013 to an estimated £80m now "and, it has to be pointed out, far exceeds the forecast £10m efficiency saving"

(see BBC and other news sites - not linked as per Avant's instruction).

Who didn't see that coming? Apart from the DVLA that is...

If only there was some way of scrapping the bureacracy of VED and replacing it by a tax on something that was genuinely related to the amount of pollution cars caused and the miles they travelled.