Tories putting pressure on Gov't over Scameras
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www.conservatives.com/news/pressrelease.cfm?obj_id=80316
Damian Green: Putting pressure on the Government over speed cameras
Shadow Transport Secretary Damian Green will be increasing the pressure on the Government over the positioning of speed cameras when Parliament returns on Wednesday. Mr Green will be asking Alistair Darling a series of questions about the secrecy surrounding the speed camera partnerships, and the money they make from fines.
Mr Green commented, “These partnerships are taking more than £100m a year from speed camera fines but seem to be a lot better at making money than at making our roads safer. The number of speed cameras has increased four-fold since 1997 but the number of deaths has remained static.”
Durham is the only police area without fixed speed cameras and the accident rate there is a third lower than the national average.
He continued, “Conservatives would put speed cameras only on the most dangerous roads where they would save lives. We will also abolish the revenue-sharing partnerships which allows people to take revenue from speed cameras and use it for other purposes.”
Damian Green: Putting pressure on the Government over speed cameras
Shadow Transport Secretary Damian Green will be increasing the pressure on the Government over the positioning of speed cameras when Parliament returns on Wednesday. Mr Green will be asking Alistair Darling a series of questions about the secrecy surrounding the speed camera partnerships, and the money they make from fines.
Mr Green commented, “These partnerships are taking more than £100m a year from speed camera fines but seem to be a lot better at making money than at making our roads safer. The number of speed cameras has increased four-fold since 1997 but the number of deaths has remained static.”
Durham is the only police area without fixed speed cameras and the accident rate there is a third lower than the national average.
He continued, “Conservatives would put speed cameras only on the most dangerous roads where they would save lives. We will also abolish the revenue-sharing partnerships which allows people to take revenue from speed cameras and use it for other purposes.”
Apache said:
moronic Vicky Cann seem to be worth it. 'You only have yourself to blame'
, 'cameras save lives'
'it's not about revenue generation'
This was probably her reaction as well as she was typing it knowing that her big christmas bonus will be huge as usual
Still the tide is turning and thats all that matters!
Apache said:
I feel vindicated, all those arguments that I've put forward to Scamera Partnerships, emails to my MP
, the papers, trying to reason with the moronic Vicky Cann
yeehar
And I am still waiting for a reply from her after 6 months!
Couldnt resist it so i sent the minga this:
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A bad week.
And long may it continue.
The tide has finally turned against you greedy scammers.
The national press are asking the very same questions that the ordinary motorist has been asking for some time now.
I wonder if youll still be in this job after the end of next year?
Multiple articles in the papers, on the news, all saying what we already knew: Your cameras are a sham! Youre "scamera" partnership is also a sham! Your chief constable Brunstrom is the biggest muppet ever to hold that office! Oh my word!
Shhhhhh.....hear that? Its the winds of change.......
Id like to take this opportunity to wish you a very unhappy Christmas, all the "arrive deprived" staff also, and especially Mr "Dick" Brunstrom for being so stupid, and trying to turn us all into crims.
Finally, id like to give you this link, (click it if you dare) and hope youll find it as funny and as true as we all know it to be.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/keith.jones61/
Ta ta old thing, have to go a speeding!
(am i cruel or what?) 
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A bad week.
And long may it continue.
The tide has finally turned against you greedy scammers.
The national press are asking the very same questions that the ordinary motorist has been asking for some time now.
I wonder if youll still be in this job after the end of next year?
Multiple articles in the papers, on the news, all saying what we already knew: Your cameras are a sham! Youre "scamera" partnership is also a sham! Your chief constable Brunstrom is the biggest muppet ever to hold that office! Oh my word!
Shhhhhh.....hear that? Its the winds of change.......
Id like to take this opportunity to wish you a very unhappy Christmas, all the "arrive deprived" staff also, and especially Mr "Dick" Brunstrom for being so stupid, and trying to turn us all into crims.
Finally, id like to give you this link, (click it if you dare) and hope youll find it as funny and as true as we all know it to be.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/keith.jones61/
Ta ta old thing, have to go a speeding!
(am i cruel or what?)
What a bunch of numpties 
these scamera b'stards are.
The sooner they are exposed as the complete sham laden, anti-motorist cash-generators which benefit no-one but the companies which run them the better.
Full marks to the fella with his p!sstake website.
Sorry for joining in the
but they make me want to 
.
Incidentally, someone's pulled one of these cash machines over in Tunbridge Wells where I'm from...
...must try to get a pic this weekend as it never fails to make me laugh when I drive past it.
these scamera b'stards are. The sooner they are exposed as the complete sham laden, anti-motorist cash-generators which benefit no-one but the companies which run them the better.
Full marks to the fella with his p!sstake website.
Sorry for joining in the
but they make me want to . Incidentally, someone's pulled one of these cash machines over in Tunbridge Wells where I'm from...
...must try to get a pic this weekend as it never fails to make me laugh when I drive past it.rev-erend said:What we need is an opposition party that will honour pre-election pledges (oh look...a flying pig)!
Sounds like they (cons) might be taking their first steps towards being a credible opposition ...
Something we really need !
It doesn't matter who you vote for...the government always get in
They've also tabled an early day motion on this issue citing the Autocar/RAC Statistics on Speed Cameras and Road Safety. See my post on this here:
http://pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=69184&f=10&h=0
http://pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=69184&f=10&h=0
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