Tories tackle speed camera rules

Well, I hate to suggest this but these figures could have been
manipulated.

I saw speed cameras in France, on N roads, for the first time ever over
the last week. I'd always thought that the French would have destroyed
the cameras but they appear to be as much subjects of their Government
as we are of ours. I'm disappointed.

 

Posting through NTL, using Pan and trolling. Wonder who this could be.
Any ideas?

 

Hmm, I'll have to take a look again in the new year, from what I've seen
the money is all shit though.

Staying where I am and landing a "mostly work at home" job is a
favourite at the moment. I'm not too fussed by it all though, I'd quite
like to make next year a 'fun' year.

 

Of course, this is the crux of the matter, and one with which I
absolutely agree. I'm a city boy, and some people are not, and that's
just horses for courses.

But, it's not often that country dwellers are so gracious as you. Most
of the time one hears the opinion that city life is crap expressed as
fact.

I don't really know much about the author. The bit I like from the
article - the part that resonates with my own opinions, is where he
explains how his children are exposed to many more positive influences
than if they were in the country. There is simply more to do in cities,
and that's why *I* love them.

 

Depends if you're talking about elasticity of demand, or of price.

 

Not "trolling" at all.

Just have lived in a country with 20 MPH
in residential area speed limits.
(actually 30 kph
which is a shade less
than 20 MPH)

Statitics proove the slower the traffic the safer
it is. E=M.SQ(V) and all that.

And I feel alot
safer about my kids
crossing the road when
going off to play there
than in the UK.

Who might you be then ?

 

The answer is simple then; fuel's too cheap, you'd move otherwise or
change job.

I commute 120 miles a day (when not working from home or out of the
office); it's wrong that I should be able to do this since I'm burning
up a valuable resource that can't be easily replaced. Of course whilst
I believe it's wrong I have the choice to do this, I'm fucked if I'm
moving, taking weekly lodgings or using public transport[1]

[1] Because it's really too crap for me; it would restrict my
flexibility and increase my commute time *plus* it would cost a lot
more.

 

It certainly will be

 

Happy New Year.

 

Maybe so. TBH it all came as a surprise to me as in my last job all my
fuel was paid for.

My logic too.

Giving up 3.5 hours a day to commuting still leaves me better off than
taking a job locally, and I can relax whilst listening to CDs or the
radio.

Anyhow I've decided to be environmentally friendly next time I buy a
car, I'm getting a turbo diesel [1] rather than a petrol, then it'll be
less of an issue.

[1] Right now I'd probably go for a bland but hugely practical estate,
and will be primarily chosen on the cars we get good discount on thru
work.

 

maybe 3-4K a year..

I'd take more than that as a cut if I took most of the jobs I've seen
locally, and I'd lose the car.

So I'm not doing that.

 

and a Happy New Year to you lot in Brizzle.
Heading out to a bit of a Cabaret I am, new joint on the Lisburn Road.

Having been ill and TT over Christmas I have some serious making up to do.

 

It's a bit of all three of course!

I have pretty much come to accept that ^^^ up there though. Consume and be
damned for there is no tomorrow. Save the Planet? sorry but it's
doomed...as are we. Just a matter of timeframes and I can't see that it
matters whether it's 10 or 10000 generations.

 

Multipla. YKIMS.

 

No, it doesn't. Fiat and Alfa are the only 2 'regular' brands not on
the company fleet approved list.

Avensis or Mondeo both attract a huge discount, mind.

 

You really are a perverted son of a bitch

 

New Mondy is a ferkin good machine in top spec.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, pseudoplatypus

That's "Multiplums". Des told me.

 

Well there's little to be gained by holding an opinion that "living in
cities is crap" when it seems to be the way of the future. IMO living
in cities is crap but that's just 'cos I don't like being in close
proximity to people (or evidence of other people's presence)

Well I live in the country and I think my Children have had a relatively
good background, go to a multi-cultural school etc. Living in the
countryside doesn't mean you can't visit cities.

Robert Elms seemed to play the "smart man about town" for Loose Ends
IIRC (on reflection) in the mid 80s; a rather brash character probably
quite in touch with the article he's written. He'd defend it as humour
but I see it as an attack on people who are suffering badly (two
relatives have stopped farming in the last five years as an alternative
to going bankrupt) and I know (or know vaguely- I'd met them years ago)
two farmers who have committed suicide due to financial worries.

 

Actually I wouldn't be surprised because our politics are surprisingly
similar when we've spoken about stuff; we agree about much more than we
disagree. I suspect it's 'cos I'm a reluctant Tory and a very wet one
at that.