Tories tackle speed camera rules

you evil man.

 

You said "all time high".

 

Mmm, I wouldn't assume they won't attempt something with motorcycles in the
shorter rather then longer term.
This month's Ride has a feature on it in fact. The fatalities are up, the
politicians have noticed.

 

Nouveau poor to the left, please.

 

I rememeber those years, they were *fantastic*. I was very young, and
things like work, money, and politics meant nothing to me.

 

Goodness me. I thought it was accepted that voting is a hard won right
and should be used. It's one of the few times when you have the
potential to make a change to better society.

I will confess to not voting in the London Mayoral election because the
choice of candidates was truly awful and Labour had completely cocked up
the whole damn process.

Oh for heaven's sake. There are far more important issues than that to
consider.

An expected response Mr B.

No they do not. That is just simplistic nonsense that you have
regurgitated from the "popular press" who have decided in recent years
to make themselves the party of opposition. Pity we can't vote out the
owners of newspapers and television companies.

I'm sorry but I wouldn't even accuse the Tories of doing that and I
can't stand the Tories. Governments are faced with so many choices and
rapidly moving events that they are forced to compromise. Sometimes
their initial proposals are so shit that it is good that they change
their minds. Often they do things that people vote for and either do
them badly or they don't claim that the policies are actually working or
else the electorate have moved onto another issue.

I'm sorry but the fuel protests were the biggest pile of ill conceived
shit that I've seen for a long time. The people "organising" them were a
bunch of twits who could not agree amongst themselves as to what they
were trying to achieve, why they were doing it and how to organise it.

The government did absolutely the right thing in taking no damn notice
of them (at the time). I would love to have seen what all those smug
apparently self satisfied "members of the public" would have thought
when the food started to run out, when hospitals started to shut down,
when their kids couldn't get to school, when granny died because the
ambulance couldn't get through all the jams at petrol stations. Then
they'd say "why aren't the government sorting this out?". My answer
would be "get those fat stupid farmers and lorry drivers back to fucking
work".

People voted for the fuel escalator which was introduced by the Tories.
The subsequent removal of it has meant motoring has become relatively
cheaper thus further imperilling public transport viability, increasing
congestion, increasing pollution, putting us at risk of breaking our
international commitments under the Kyoto agreement, increasing urban
sprawl, increased risk of asthma in kids etc. People really need to work
out the consequences for society of taking stupid short sighted selfish
action that puts a few pence in their pockets today at the cost of
misery and millions of pounds worth of rectification costs tomorrow.

 

Except that many of the public, like me, support high fuel prices -
and we're right.

 

Fair enough. I meant it as "all time high" for the present labour gov...


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Paul Corfield wrote:

Dont' under estimate something that effects all the people. More
important issues do exist. But this one effects everyone...




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I wish I'd said that.

 

Elms is just a troll.

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*sigh*

And you called me "thick" for taking your statement at face-value,
rather than taking into account that your poor articulation of your
thoughts resulted in you saying something other than what you were
thinking. ffs.

 

If only.

 

Asthma isn't caused by pollution and people who continue to try and maintain
the myth should be slit from the groin to the throat with a serrated kitchen
knife.

and

Let people who use public transport pay for it.

 

I remember them too, for the first bit I saw school classes being shown
how to fill benefit forms.

The middle bit I saw industry torn asunder whilst rapacious young things
shat on their social responsibility and communities. But did it with
good suits and no style.

The last bit is the future bequeathed to us, individuals without a
fucking clue as to what democracy is, but know the importance of texting
the pop idol vote.

A little tune has just popped into my head...

# The factories are closing and the army's full -
# I don't know what I'm going to do
# But I've come to see in the land of the free
# There's only a future for the chosen few

 

oh so *everyone* is capable of speeding in motorised transport and is
liable to speeding fines. I think *not*.

The Tories and The Daily Mail would like you to believe that this
affects *everyone* and *all the people* but it *absolutely* does *not*.
It is a cheap and shameful measure that will have adverse consequences
on those who would superficially support it.

 

Oh? why **** that up too.

 

So you support gatso and fines and bans for victimless fun? really?

 

Is driving quickly and thereby increasing your
chances of causing accidents/killing someone
on the road; harmless fun then ?

OK on a race track where they are all consenting adults.
Then the risk is not endangering others.

I want them to be able to camoflauge speed
cameras and have more of them AND
penalty points. And the tax disc should be
proof of MOT and insurance, not a tax.
AN admin fee (20 quid a year) is appropriate.

Anything damaging the environment should be made more expensive.
Then other cleaner ways to do the same thing are forced
to be economically viable. Like LPG and ultimately H2.
Burn H2 and water is the exhaust.

The tax should be per polutant, and
that means carbon based fuels (like petrol and diesel)
should go UP in price.

 

Nothing's changed, then?