CXRAndy
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It was a political stunt to get the real feelings of the public across.
Starmer is a lying cùnty shît
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Starmer is a lying cùnty shît
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briantrumpet
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Ditto. And even if not everyone drives at 20mph or slower, if overall you scrub a few mph off the average speed, the outcomes when people do hit squidgy humans are still much less serious.
Thankfully all the data from 20mph zones in Wales and London is clear-cut, and not just marginally so.
TailWindHome
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Yet, Robbins testimony says he wasn't lying.
AndyRM
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This is the glory of Andy's rage bait bullsh!t.
None of it makes sense, and it never will, especially when he hates the country he lives in but doesn't seem to want to create meaningful change beyond deriding others who do.
It's a thing of beauty and I commend him for it.
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briantrumpet
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I still think that the persona is concocted, as it gets reactions.
BoldonLad
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Did you take the points or do the course, may I ask?
Beebo
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I did the course.
I’m all in favour of lower speed limits, but the signage is poor.
In London, where I was caught, they need to make up their minds because speed limits change constantly for no discernible reason.
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briantrumpet
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You can draw your own conclusions as to why I'm posting this on NCAP.
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CXRAndy
Epic Member
You're starting from Starmer was completely un the dark of Mandlesons history and the process.
His cabinet office were constantly leaning on the FCDO to pass Mandleson even ignore vetting because he held senior posts in the past.
Starmer rushed the announcement knowing full well of the risks and its come back to haunt him
BoldonLad
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Yeah. I was “done” recently 34mph in a 30mph. First time in 53 years of (lots) of driving.
I did course too, quite well done I thought.
I took lessons, and then a Motorcycle test, as a youngster of 65, so, 15 years ago now. My instructor spend a lot of time advising on how to deduce the speed limit on many stretches of road, because signage was inadequate.
Pinno718
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They done you for that?!
I also did a speed awareness course after being caught doing 47 in a 40 in Wales whilst on holiday.
Overtook a mobile home that I had been stuck behind for 14 miles all the way from exiting Wrexham.
There was nobody on the other side of the road. There was nobody behind me. There was the only straight bit of road in Wales ahead of me, the weather was fine. There was no f*cking reason to have a 40 limit after roundabout number 176 in the sticks, no houses nearby, no obvious hazards, no street lights, no solid white line, no dips in the road, no hidden exits. It was a perfectly safe bit for overtaking.
Damn mobile home obscured the camera van.
There are now extended 20mph speed limits on 2 roads in and out of my local town and they make zero sense. Zero. Luckily, I have yet to hear of anyone being stopped for exceeding the 20 limit as there just aren't enough police so the 20 limit just restricts us all to 25. And yes, the difference to life/injury between 20 and 24 might be surprising but common sense says there's kids mucking around on the pavement, or the school run is on or there's a bus off loading, there's a whole line of cars in an urban setting where people are going to be in and out and possibly between them so slow down but we have to legislate for stupid. We also have to sterilise life and just exist and not live. H&S interpretation - the risk assessment which pushed a few idiots to do things like banning the egg and spoon race at their school. I used to compile the damn things - rods to beat your own back and have sleepless nights wondering if you'll be sued because someone idiot circumnavigated the H&S and got injured. There's a 40mph limit for trucks along most of the A75. It's hell at times. Hell for the truck drivers and hell for people stuck behind them and D&G is very rural. Senseless. Sense would be here... and here... and there say, not all the f*cking way.
Sure, stick the 20mph limits all over the place and say how many lives you think you have saved and as a cyclist, despite the 1.5m rule and despite the speed limits, I still get close calls and sometimes cars pass me as if I do not exist or they actually haven't seen me or they pull out on me and none of these daffodils ever get stopped let alone think.
I think a lot of the blanket 20-mph limits have been enforced without proper consideration and are arbitrary. Just some suit in an office somewhere will be proud of the number of lives they think they saved by slapping stricter speed limits on roads where there is no clear reason to do so.
Right, that's Wednesday's rant over.
BoldonLad
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Hmm… sounds like the speed awareness courses don’t always work 😊
Pinno718
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There are multi cell organisms locally that are incapable of making that link. They are called 'locals'.
Pinno718
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It did in terms of recognising where and why there's a speed limit of X value.
I was a truck driver. I saw a lot of silly things. I got one ticket as a truck driver. 46 in a 40 somewhere in Warwickshire at 5am near Coughton Court. Nobody else on the road at that time. Not a soul about.
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briantrumpet
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The most ridiculous one I remember was on the M25 at about 3am, six lanes, all empty apart from me, and for some reason a 40mph variable limit (IIRC). Still stuck to it (given all the speed cameras), even if it did feel like I was barely moving.
