CURFEW BY BACK DOOR?

[Flat in FiFth]

gridgway said:

is it me or is this deliberately being misunderstood?

Yes

On the other hand I see where both sides are coming from on this; you with the "it's a potentially misguided commercial proposition," which is how I understand and agree with your stance, and where the others are coming from.

I think the latter is fuelled by the experience of a fair few thin end of wedges being inserted over the years.

As in, speed cameras; "Oh you don't have to worry, we are only after the real mickey takers, and they will only be put in special places where excess speed OPL is the main cause"... and now see where we are.

Also as in, "There will never be a two tier police force." Now we have civilianised enforcement, which started with "It's just instead of police traffic wardens" now see where we are as a result of Traffic Management bill and other legislation. Not just the predatory and aggressive parking enforcement but Council Officers watching CCTV to catch people dropping off passengers and stopping merely for 10 seconds, catching people using a bus lane to drive round a broken down vehicle, mobile council camera cars watching for various moving violations, AND then we have PCSOs and HATOs, watch this space.

I would say that there are some on here who, when opening the dictionary and looking up the word paranoid, find the text "And why do YOU want to know that?" but I think the powers that be have a fair bit of previous on inserting thin end of wedge in this respect.

just my, hopefully objective, 2 pence.

FiF

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thepassenger said:

To be honest even if it was the law to have one fitted it'll meet mr. hammer either way. I'm a private citizen and don't appriciate my elected government spying on me... I appriciate private companies doing it even less.

You need to start getting worried as all the government spying is done by commercial companies from the running of the ANPR network to the forceable taking of your DNA for police records and seen to be ID cards.