Are overseas drivers safe to drive on UK roads?

I haven't driven in or around Manila but I have driven elsewhere here including Cebu, Davao and the surrounding provinces. There's only one rule of the road religiously adhered to by all Filipino road users: "me first!" and they will happily cut in front of an ambulance if it means they gain an extra metre or two. The fabled Italian drivers in Rome are tame by comparison!

There are traffic lights in Cebu but, even if they're working which they often aren't, nobody pays a blind bit of notice of them unlike Davao where even pedestrians pay attention to the illuminated crossing signs!

Do you think an armoured tank is probably the safest and best mode of transport to get around in the Philippines?

They should certainly use armoured and munitioned tanks as taxis plying the route between Terminal 3 and Terminal 2, NAIA. When I arrived from Europe a couple of months ago, I sat in one jam after another in a taxi for over an hour and a half as it crept along at less than 1 mph. Would only have taken a couple of minutes in a tank

Ahhh, the joys of Philippine motoring

I have never seen an artic driving around Cebu Island, outside of Cebu City.
This is because the bridges that were built previously were not constructed to take 44 tonnes.
Moving 18 tonnes around in a rigid is inefficient and not maximising the logistics.
All goods and sugar cane is still moved around on rigids.

Nobody thought much about infrastructure and how it could change as time goes by.
Cebu Island will therefore be fighting a losing battle should the Philippines' economy start to really grow.
Perhaps the infrastructure is different in other areas, but I don't remember seeing artics in Luzon.

The artics running around Cebu City mostly moving things to and from the port are very poorly maintained with insufficient lights on most and the tyres are death traps.

I once was in a jam in Makati and had time to study a rigid heading the other way as it inched past.

The entire bodywork had been replaced in unpainted wood and corrugated sheeting; the effect was quite artistic. The tyres were of course bald and the chassis had a pronounced twist. None the less, it was running - or rather, crawling.

All to come for me again. Off to work on Tuesday so the joy of the commute is nearly upon me