National slow hoon it day

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slim_boy_fat said:

supersingle said:

Alistair Darling, Gordon Brown, Gwyneth Dunwoody. What do they all have in common?

None of them are English yet they run your country.

Hadn't thought of that!

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black-k1 said:

As carried out by the local speed camera partnership! Hmmm!

I would happily bet my own money (and I don’t do that very often) that the same survey done on this site using the PH community would get a substantially different result.

Of course, but there is no indication that it was rigged in any way (using their own employees for the survey etc). There was a similar one some months ago carried out by the RAC of it's members which had similar results - I just knew where to find the link easily for the Wiltshire one

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thewurzel said:

black-k1 said:

thewurzel said:

…and are not going to leave the country because of it.

Have you asked those leaving the country why they are doing so?
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No, have you?

No, I haven’t asked but I am also not arrogant enough to state that people either are or are not going to leave because of it.

Perhaps not, but I was responding to gilberninvader's opinion that they would, with my opinion that they wouldn't. Neither of us knows for sure.

black-k1 said:

thewurzel said:

black-k1 said:

While I wouldn't expect to see 'speed enforcement' as a specific reason for most I would not be surprised to see 'petty rules/nanny state/erosion of freedoms' (which may well include current speed enforcement policy) as a contributing factor.

Erosion of the freedom to flout the law? No, I can't remember ever having that, in any country.

No, the erosion of freedom by the implementation of too many petty laws for political reasons and the enforcement of existing laws in apparently disproportionate ways for the purpose of meeting targets rather than the benefit of the population.

The laws have always been there, they've always been enforced, and some people have always disliked them. Personal perception of the risks of speeding is what defines this, and this affects us all. (And yes, I include myself in this)

black-k1 said:

Breaking the law is wrong, whoever does it, and as you have said, most on here who speed and get caught accept that, but that does not make the law right or just.

Maybe not, and when enough people want it changed, it will be, but we still can't break laws that we disagree with.

Edited by thewurzel on Wednesday 9th April 17:38