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@Greenbank
Everyone takes the speed awareness course instead of points if they have a chance. (I did). The first points you get give you a significant hike in insurance costs. (I've never had any points.)
But that's not really the story.
The story is that she wanted a private speed awareness course, rather than one with some commoners who may give her shit, and that she tried to use her position as a minister to make a private speed awareness course happen.
Personally I found loads of the stuff on the speed awareness course really useful, and would recommend getting similar training for any/every driver. It goes beyond what I learned whilst learning to drive (all 3 tests - CBT, car, full motorcycle). And it goes into "why" some of the bits are in the HWC, and how they are derived, rather than them just being stated as fact in the HWC.