No, simply explaining my position and why I don't run away when people start chucking childish insults around instead of reasoned argument. I may be guilty of many things, but fortunately being a violent idiot isn't one fo them.
Do you expect me to be able to reach down a phone line to administer a good thrashing.........!! Let's be a bit sensible about that.
It is your opinion that LASORS isn't to be followed in the same way it is mine that it should be.
The ANO cannot possibly be written to cover every nuance, if it was it would tens of thousands of pages long and utterly unreadable.
Let me put it this way, do you refer to the highway code? Do you consider that to be "good enough"?
It isn't law either, but a book written by the DVLA to allow the general public access to the rules and regs in a manageable form.
Next time you get stopped by the police, try arguing that just because it is in the highway code it isn't law. In fact an awful lot of what is contained in the highway code doesn't appear in any legislation, but whilst you can't be prosecuted for failing to abide by the "code", there is the catch all offence of "driving without due care" which can be chucked at you even though what you may have done doesn't appear in the statute books, but does appear in the highway code book.
LASORS is exactly the same in my eyes. It is simply a book clarifying the law and making it more easily digestable and accessable for the general public. Having to refer to the ANO constantly is unwieldy and given that it can only be updated by act of parliament, having a book like LASORS makes life an awful lot simpler for all of us.
It has transformed things for me. I don't get asked anywhere near as many law questions anymore and if I am and I don't know the answer off the top of my head, it is far easier to delve into one book and get an answer.
An excellent publication, not perfect, but it makes life much easier than when we didn't have it.