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Our brave government's latest plan to 'help' the motorist.
Apparently this will save up to 250 lives a year and no doubt vastly improve the holiday destinations of the owners of Speed Check Services (ooh a
private company in a monoploy service position to the government? - what a surprise...)
Utter, utter @~*&£%^&£$$!!!!!!
I wondered if a small poll wasn't in order - so who would you like to run you?
It's not new, they have been restricting road speed over the last 5 years.
Lots of A roads between Mitcham and Bognor Regis have been changed from 60 to 40, like the burgh heath road from the A217 to Box Hill.
It's been happening far longer than this report.
Some roads do need lower limits. It is rediculous that some single track roads are 60. The box hill road has lots of T junctions and a golf course
where people cross the road.
If people have a speed bug that they feel they need to satisfy, track days are the only safe option for everyone.
The road going past my house is a 30, on the other side is a school with 1500 kids. It should be a 20 IMO.
1/2 mile further on it goes into country side and was 60 until a few months ago, now the first half is 30 and in the middle of it to goes to 40.
AND I would like to add 3,500 people died in hospital last year from MRSA type infections they didn't go in with. Whats Brown doing about
that???
So, statically, your more likely to survive the crash than you are going into hospital with a non live threatening injury or illness
[Edited on 8/3/09 by coozer]
I don't particularly speed and I'd expect the vast majority on this forum to be hugely sensible and safe drivers given that they've
invested many hours and many pounds in their pride and joys. Giving it 'the beans' is therefore something done under the 'right'
conditions and with appropriate judgement.
What makes me angry to the point of eating my own arm is any government that believes it is had the right to question my judgement - I know the rules,
I'll obey or face the consequences - the fact that they then spend vast amounts of our tax money in the most inefficient way imaginable (other
than piling it in the road and setting a match to it - oh dear, come to think of it, that's capital easing isn't it) just adds insult to
injury.
Frankly, I never felt less 'free' in this supposed bastion of democracy than I do now...
It has been said before & I WILL repeat it. It is NOT pure speed that kills, IF it was then the copper should have received a life time ban for
156mph. No, it is inappropriate speed in conjunction with DANGEROUS driving that kills. The Government is only going down the road that it is because
it is a income earner for them and is easily spotted and prosecuted with the limited resources that the 'police' have. The government needs
to STOP meddling with the police force and allow them to do what they are there for.
Increase the number of policemen (&women), make them concentrate on the proper crimes, and allow the traffic police to enforce BASIC driving
standards with the courts coming down hard on DANGEROUS driving practices. If the prisons end up so crowded then tough, IF you don't like being
in a harsh penal system then its simple, - DON'T do the crime.
Stop coming out with stupid CR*P like 'don't send criminals to prison if they have a drugs habit'. ------------ To quote a well know
phrase WTF?
Another can of beans opened by yours truly.
I dont get it...........dont any politicians drive cars , or ever want to get where they are going in a reasonable time ?
How soon to the revolution?
Can't be long I think
Any body got any ideas how to word a petition ? I think it may get a lot of support..............
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Originally posted by clairetoo
Any body got any ideas how to word a petition ? I think it may get a lot of support..............
The idea has come from a accross the atlantic already some US models have GPS tracking built into the ECU and looks like it will form part of the proposed OBDIII --- in which the goverment will be able perform emmision check on your vehicle via the cell phone network.
How about :-
Dear Mr Brown,
We, the undersigned, think you should f*ck right off.
short and to the point
unfortunately this government is determined to turn GB into a communist state that will resemble north korea where the chosen few and their cronies
will have everything and us mere mortals will be groveling in the gutter.
plod were saying they expect trouble once summer arrives so they are frightened and will prob have armed troops on the streets to keep us in order.
Won't happen round my way. Far too many roads, with far too many little side turns. And even if they do have a SPECS camera at every junction,
the local tool place hire Stihl saws. 
Damn fool Gov't trying to interfere with every day life again. They really won't be happy until every one is tracked 24 hrs a day, all in
the name of either road safety, anti-terrorism or saving the planet.
Or, it's the easiest way of getting a wide network of cameras in place so they can bring in road tolls.
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Originally posted by scudderfish
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Originally posted by clairetoo
Any body got any ideas how to word a petition ? I think it may get a lot of support..............
How about :-
Dear Mr Brown,
We, the undersigned, think you should f*ck right off.
It's all got a bit
So basically pure caitalism doesn't work and will ultimately crash due to the greed of a few and to quote Winston Churchill (1945) ". . .
a socialist policy is abhorrent to the British ideas of freedom. Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of
the state. It will prescribe for every one where they are to work, what they are to work at, where they may go and what they may say. Socialism
is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police. They would have to fall back on some
form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance.
Think we're buggered.
How about what my late Nan used to always say 'do as you would be done by'?...
id happily sign that...unfortunately its not just brown, its also the bloody idiots round him aswell. we should actually do something though...everyone should join motorists against detection.they were having a cover up your plates day last year apparently...should also have a kick the arses out of parliament day methinks.
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Or, it's the easiest way of getting a wide network of cameras in place so they can bring in road tolls.
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Originally posted by clairetoo
I dont get it...........dont any politicians drive cars , or ever want to get where they are going in a reasonable time ?
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Originally posted by minitici
How soon to the revolution?
Can't be long I think
aye...not long now methinks...
anyone got a light?