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Speeding drivers 'should pay £5 extra to victim fund'
The Home Secretary says motorists should pay a £5 surcharge on speeding tickets to help raise extra cash for crime victims. David Blunkett has floated the idea as part of a major shake-up of the way the Government funds victim support services.
Responsibility for paying criminal injuries compensation to people attacked while at work - including police, health workers and teachers - should be transferred to employers, said a consultation paper.
The existing Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme (CICS) - which currently pays out £160 million a year - should also stop giving awards to train drivers who have suffered trauma from seeing someone commit suicide by jumping in front of their train, it said.
Under the proposals - first leaked last summer - speeding tickets would go up by £5 to help pay for a new Victims Fund.
More serious motoring offences such as uninsured driving and failure to give driver's details to police would carry a £10 surcharge. Parking fines would be exempt from the new levy.
Other on-the-spot fines, such as being drunk in public or making a hoax 999 call, would also carry the extra charge.
Criminals would also have to pay out, with a suggested £30 surcharge handed to every new prison inmate and everyone ordered to do a community service order, provided the sentencing judge agreed.
Offenders handed a fine would also have to pay extra to the fund - with today's consultation paper suggesting levies of £15 to £30 depending on the level of the fine.
All the money raised by the surcharges would go towards setting up schemes to help victims rather than being paid direct to individuals.
why hit the speede? they havent created any victims?
why not be more pro-0active at fining, and giving points to those involved in car accidents?
get in league with the insurers, so those taht make a claim, get a £5 increase in their next policy instead. since there the ones that cost the money..
another well thought out policy from the muppet farm
I hope conservative read this board for sensible ideas.., or why dont we just put up candidates for a "peoples party" its only £5k a seatm, and 200 seats will win it..
why not be more pro-0active at fining, and giving points to those involved in car accidents?
get in league with the insurers, so those taht make a claim, get a £5 increase in their next policy instead. since there the ones that cost the money..
another well thought out policy from the muppet farm
I hope conservative read this board for sensible ideas.., or why dont we just put up candidates for a "peoples party" its only £5k a seatm, and 200 seats will win it..
So
Scrote beats up my Granny for 20 quid, he gets 2 extra social workers a shrink and 24 hr police protection from me
Little scum bag terrorises an entire nieghbourhood he can expect the same
Speeders have to pay into a fund.
I have a vision of Blunkett bendng to pat his dog and me with a white hot poker....
Scrote beats up my Granny for 20 quid, he gets 2 extra social workers a shrink and 24 hr police protection from me
Little scum bag terrorises an entire nieghbourhood he can expect the same
Speeders have to pay into a fund.
I have a vision of Blunkett bendng to pat his dog and me with a white hot poker....
Another "££££££-TAX-££££££". Oh my! How original of him.
Does he think we're all as blind as he is?
That we dont see what he's up to?
Wont affect me anyway cos before too much longer ill be outa britain permanently, and i wont care if it sinks in the crap of its own making.
Had it up to here with em.(points to neck..
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Does he think we're all as blind as he is?
That we dont see what he's up to?
Wont affect me anyway cos before too much longer ill be outa britain permanently, and i wont care if it sinks in the crap of its own making.
Had it up to here with em.(points to neck..
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Criminals would also have to pay out, with a suggested £30 surcharge handed to every new prison inmate
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This is the best laugh of all now.
Magistrate "OK my fine young Scrote, I sentence you to 3 years in jail, and you'll pay a surcharge of £30"
Fine young Scrote " aye right, ya dozey auld git"
Criminals would also have to pay out, with a suggested £30 surcharge handed to every new prison inmate
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This is the best laugh of all now.
Magistrate "OK my fine young Scrote, I sentence you to 3 years in jail, and you'll pay a surcharge of £30"
Fine young Scrote " aye right, ya dozey auld git"
More fines never to be paid by the scrotes and so will only penalise the normally law abiding. Why are parking tickets going to be exempt? They are supposed to cause loads of misery due to traffic hold ups etc.
Plus, as has been said, another government quango to waste must of the money paid into it.
I also don't agree with removing the money paid to train drivers when they witness a suicide. A friend of mine is a train driver and it's not very nice because you logically know there is nothing you can do but still "feel" you should have tried.
Plus, as has been said, another government quango to waste must of the money paid into it.
I also don't agree with removing the money paid to train drivers when they witness a suicide. A friend of mine is a train driver and it's not very nice because you logically know there is nothing you can do but still "feel" you should have tried.
So by doing the simple maths,
If a 'speeder'gets a £5 extra fine and a Lifer gets a £30 fine, then is 35 in a 30 offence equal to the 6th of a lifetime!?!?!
While I sympathise that victims never get enough this is classic mismanagement. Lets avoid the tough job and pick the easy target.
So we have a victim of a nasty crime. I know its crazy but lets try empowering the Police to do the job required and then strip said Scrot of benefits and assets to compansate the victim. If that isn't enough then he spends extra time in clinck working crap jobs on minimum wage until the compensation is paid!
Vote me for Prime Minister!
If a 'speeder'gets a £5 extra fine and a Lifer gets a £30 fine, then is 35 in a 30 offence equal to the 6th of a lifetime!?!?!
While I sympathise that victims never get enough this is classic mismanagement. Lets avoid the tough job and pick the easy target.
So we have a victim of a nasty crime. I know its crazy but lets try empowering the Police to do the job required and then strip said Scrot of benefits and assets to compansate the victim. If that isn't enough then he spends extra time in clinck working crap jobs on minimum wage until the compensation is paid!
Vote me for Prime Minister!
These compensation schemes never work. On the rare occassion they do, its good, but in the majority of cases it is just another thing that someone fails to pay - even adding it on to an existing fine doesnt mean that they will actually pay it....
Sort out the existing compensation scheme and get money from the victims of rape, burglary, mugging etc right and then work out who else to charge later.... putting it on speeders does add or do anything to help anyone - either the victim or the perp....
And anyway - who is the victim when someone gets caught doing 80 on the M4 at 1:00am with no other cars for miles????? Makes a mockery of the compensation system and fools of anyone involved in the Criminal justice system..
Sort out the existing compensation scheme and get money from the victims of rape, burglary, mugging etc right and then work out who else to charge later.... putting it on speeders does add or do anything to help anyone - either the victim or the perp....
And anyway - who is the victim when someone gets caught doing 80 on the M4 at 1:00am with no other cars for miles????? Makes a mockery of the compensation system and fools of anyone involved in the Criminal justice system..
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