Bristol Mayor caught speeding - such irony!

[Tony33]

"Bristol mayor George Ferguson, who has been instrumental in introducing new 20mph speed limits across the city, has been caught speeding in a 30mph zone."

Some may find this a little amusing

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Bristol-mayor-George-...

[miniman]

Sanctimonious hypocritical tt.

[Nigel Worc's]

I have to smile at that, be even better if it was one of the Brake loonies, or a scamerati employee.

[g3org3y]

[funkyrobot]

Do as I say ..... etc.

[HughiusMaximus]

Classic...

Im counting down the days to the next election...

[Jasandjules]

I trust he will hand in his license voluntarily as he is clearly a danger to society, I mean, speeding....

[rs1952]

Nigel Worc's said:

I have to smile at that, be even better if it was one of the Brake loonies, or a scamerati employee.

Oh no - this is going to be big in Bristol


This bloke is rapidly becoming known as Bristol's car-hater-in-chief. As I understand it from my contacts down there (I lived in the city and its environs for nearly 30 years and I know a couple of Councillors down there) he is almost universally disliked by local politicians, and there are going to be a lot of people who are going to make a lot of mileage out of this.

And this isn't going to help:

red trousers said:

It serves as a sharp warning to me and I have blemished an otherwise clean licence and shall be paying the penalty charge willingly from my own pocket.

S'cuse me George, but you were driving a car that was going in excess of the speed limit, and caught by the very people that you have been campaigning to get back out on Bristol's roads

And who the feck should be grateful that you are willingly paying this out of your own pocket? Are you suggesting that you could have claimed it under mayoral expenses but you chose not to? If I was a local journalist I'd be having a lot of fum with that apparently arrogant statement.

But I wonder why its taken 6 weeks to get into the public domain?

[Rovinghawk]

Allowing for his background he shouldn't have the chance of FPN or SAC- he should be dealt with by magistrates & given the heaviest sentence allowed for his offence. How could he possibly object to this?

[jules_s]

I'm surprised tbh, he's usually in a taxi

[carinaman]

If he was made to attend a SAC couldn't they charge the other attendees a premium, a bit like paying $thousands to have a meal at the same table as Prince William and Kate Middleton in NYC?

[KMud]

The guy is an arrogant loon, much schadenfreude here

[Debaser]

fking hypocrite.

[Phatboy317]

This is where he was caught.

He has my deepest sympathies - not!

[heebeegeetee]

Phatboy317 said:

This is where he was caught.

He has my deepest sympathies - not!

Stroll on, I bet that's a right cash cow.

I see the mayor is doing his bit for pollution in Bristol. By driving an electric car he's offloading his pollution onto somebody else.

[R2T2]

Brilliant.

st-shovelling moron he is.

[nickydee]

I guess he can afford to pay out of his own pocket following his 13% pay rise.

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Panel-recommends-13-p...

[Seesure]

Phatboy317 said:

This is where he was caught.

He has my deepest sympathies - not!

And by a camera van, not a static camera

According to the news last night they mentioned he was "driving a hire car with two further passengers, neither of whom was insured to drive it" ...

I was not sure what inference they were making from that statement if anything at all ...