While the call for greater clarity is important, the ambiguity or 'wiggle room' in the phrase is important<p>>>“in the opinion of the Secretary of State”<p>IDK specifically about English law, but I worked directly with the DMV in Vermont. Slightly outside of the project, but the state allows pretty much any vanity plates, of course with the law specifying "shall not be objectively obscene or confusing to the general public". But this leaves room for interpretation. I heard of an incident where a state trooper was sent to retrieve a plate that had inappropriately passed screening, reading "3MTA3" (read it in the mirror).<p>Laws do need to be sufficiently precise to be not abused with selective enforcement, but sufficiently flexible to handle edge cases.