Scotland's Independence and Speeding

[Halmyre]

XJSJohn said:

e8_pack said:

The roads are already bad in Scotland, they've been paying taxes to maintain roads in England for years, no hold on wait...

(meanwhile, at the SNP HQ)...just what has the English EVER done for us...

ll right, all right … apart from better sanitation, and medicine, and education, and irrigation, and public health, and roads, and a freshwater system, and baths, and public order … what have the Romans English done for us?

Irrigation? Yes, that's really what we need in Scotland.

[XJSJohn]

^-- whoosh parrot please .....

[Halmyre]

XJSJohn said:

^-- whoosh parrot please .....

Ach, get it up ye.

(ancient Scottish blessing)

[offshorematt2]

fluffnik said:

I think Scotland should run its own vanity plate scheme which allows freeform plates for an upfront payment and an enhanced annual charge. No private market, unretained plates return to the pool.

rUK registrations are not Scottish registrations...

I actually don't disagree with this as a good revenue raiser. However, it ignores the effect on the owners of the tens of thousands of private plates already bought and paid for in Scotland.

According to the BBC "People who have personalised number plates on their cars are most likely to live in Scotland, a survey has found. Of the top 20 postcode districts where the plates are popular, eight are in Scotland" - so the only avenue to dispose of these presumably will be into a quickly saturated rUK market? Can't see a fire sale doing much to keep the prices up.

So if you're right, independence will cause an additional, unforeseen cost to a whole load of people living in Scotland.

[Eric Mc]

And what about aircraft? Scotland will need its own ICAO registration prefix.

The Isle of Man recently went to "M" having been "G" since 1921.