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I assume because a lot of Welsh drivers have only just made it home.
No doubt will be similar.
This story is huge.
It doesn't have to be this way as there is a case for 20mph round schools, hospitals and congested areas, but blanket no
There is only one story in town and we know how the media will make it number one for days, even weeks to come
The entire point is that policy shouldn’t be decided purely on the basis of what “drivers like”.
Anyway, 10,000 more signatures in the last hour or so
Here is the petition
https://petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/245548
ULEZ expansion and the 20mph implementation in Wales, Bristol and soon to be Scotland are a fantastic opportunity for the Conservatives to smash the Labour Party and in future the SNP.
In both cases the Conservatives have played the politics masterfully. That is not to say the policies are not the right ones morally. Cleaner air, fewer urban child accidental deaths may be Marxism gone mad, but I can live with the hardship. And at 30,000 miles per year, most of which is in Wales, I am affected more than most. It is no real hardship. When the 20mph pilot came to St Brides Major, I was furious. I am used to it now.
If the Conservatives can make political hay from opposing safety issues, good luck to them.
The problem isn't those who were duped by Brand in the past, it is with those who are backing him now. People like Andrew Tate and Elon Musk.
It's only a matter of time before Prince Andrew comes out as a character witness for Brand.
And if it such a good idea is Starmer going to introduce it across England or is it another example that he has no control over the Labour London Mayor or the Labour Welsh first Minister?
It's like they don't understand morality.
“HAVE you bonked Russell Brand this week?” asked the Sun, “Call us on . . .” This, after the News of the World had reported that “RANDY Russell Brand is coming to the Edinburgh Festival with women on his mind”, noting that “The BB host has asked for a flat across the road from the theatre where he’ll star, to save time getting groupies into bed. Let’s hope the bedroom action lasts longer than the walk!”
Soon afterwards, Edinburgh police got involved after a woman claimed to have been drugged and raped in the flat in question. Charges would eventually be filed against Brand’s flatmate then dropped, and Brand himself would go on to win damages from the Daily Star for implying it had been all about him. In the interim, though, he had a good laugh about it while accepting a GQ Award. “I never did a sex attack,” he declared. “At the time I was having consensual sex with witnesses — consensual mind — and a lovely evening it turned out to be.” The room chortled. While somewhere else, perhaps, some forever nameless woman tried to pull her shattered life back together.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/it-used-to-be-a-laugh-except-for-the-victims-mjlld6290
Suspicious?
In my village most has remained at 30 except the central area of the village, by the school and around the village green/ park. It has been progressed here in exactly the way you are demanding.
If the Conservatives can pull off a magnificent win on the back of this and ULEZ, that is fantastic politics. Good luck to you and them.
Hopefully with the outcry more sense will be applied
I want to make it clear, I am not opposed to 20mph zones in locations that involve schools, hospitals and congested areas including village centres
It doesn't reflect well on Boris, but it also doesn't reflect well on the Civil Service either. Many of those interviewed came across as quite arrogant, particularly Lord MacDonald, with a "this is how we've always done things attitude"
I'd be interested to know if they think the system is working better now. Clearly, Rishi is probably more to the Civil Service's liking but the Government is failing to deliver on his pledges.
I'm of the view that actually the system did actually need a really good shake up but the tragedy is that Boris and Truss weren't able to manage it due to personal failings (lack of seriousness and organisation from Boris, lack of communication skills from Truss).
And so now we will go back to insiders who will fail, but fail in an acceptable manner.
1. How it is that celebrating and rewarding sleazy, crude people results in sleazy, crude people behaving in sleazy and crude ways, if not worse. We seem to have abandoned any sense of public decency or standards or behaviour and, far too often, praised and rewarded laddish, disgusting and immoral behaviour and then act all shocked when we see the results of such behaviour. See football. See TV etc. See also the City which turned a blind eye to bad behaviour by its "stars" if they made big enough profits. How did that turn out?
2. How women - who are often, though not invariably - the victims of such behaviour are treated when they speak up about it. And how those who knew, who turned a blind eye or who profited from such behaviour fail to reflect on the consequences of their inaction. The Guardian, remarkably, seems to have forgotten that it had Brand as a columnist for many years. It is much like Max Hastings hawking his little spiel about Johnson's unfitness & how he always knew while - mysteriously - failing to mention that he continued employing him even after his epiphany about how untrustworthy he was. The All Party Parliamentary Group on whistleblowing might usefully consider why it is that few blew the whistle or were ignored if they did and what they might learn from this.
3. Finally, the politically important issue of the degradation of our police investigation capabilities and of the criminal justice system. Even if women do report to the police and can trust them - not just not to abuse them but to put the rape kit tests in a fridge that closes (see the recent Casey report) - and investigate and charges are laid, it could be years - half a decade in some cases - before there is a trial. This is not justice. It is hideously unfair to both defendant and victim and to the witnesses. It is something which political parties could put right but no-one talks about it and even Labour, with an ex-CPS head in charge, has made no real commitment to invest properly in one of the fundamental functions of the state, of any properly run state.
Other than that it has nothing to do with politics.
Seriously, well-played!
Tbh I wish we could have a 20mph in our village, it might have saved our old dog who was killed on the road outside our house by a driver who was probably sticking to the 30mph limit. But Dorset Council is notoriously anti 20mph limits and make it nigh on impossible to obtain.
We’ve had 20mph universally near me for a while now, took a few weeks to get used to, but ended up preferring it. Few people would go back now, if anything it’s made driving more pleasant. People are slower into pinch points, have more time, and get out of the way. More courteous.
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https://twitter.com/sgfmann/status/1703885893721887003
The problem in Wales is that a virtual blanket reduction from 30mph to 20mph is not seen as reasonable on some of the roads currently at 30mph and compromise will happen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Parliament_petitions_website#Petitions_with_more_than_500,000_signatures
30mph has defaulted to 20mph with some exclusions
Now Welsh road users have experienced the change there is considerable anger and ironically it is coming from North Wales and Drakeford's heartland
I find blanket 20 easier than chopping and changing all the time because there’s less risk of accidentally getting zapped by the speed cam.
Is this the new messaging from Tories Cymru? To go for a few yards outside the Co-op and ignore the housing estates and parks and sports fields?
Don't forget RT was in favour until the Uxbridge by election. 20 mph may well damage Labour in Wales and nationally. A small price if it saves a child's life.
The answer, I think, lies in the astonishing power of celebrity over those deprived of any real hope in life.
In our society, what would once have been a comfortable, secure way of life is incredibly hard to obtain.
Education has failed, the economy offers little but low pay and high rents.
Celebrities are like us, yet they are rich. The more like us they are, the more we love them for their success, and the more we listen to them.
The older voices of education, research, skill, experience are just crabby, Victorian and outdated.
Unless we can do something pretty radical about it, the future belongs to Russell Brand, or someone very like him.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-12533021/PETER-HITCHENS-Trying-argument-Russell-Brand-like-playing-chess-squirrel-given-place-national-debate.html
I’m utterly sick of the ridiculous amount of coverage this is getting.
ago but not now. Maybe I am missing something, dunno. That is not to say the allegations are not serious, they are, and should be investigated with the full force of the law, but the story is being treated like the Prince Andrew case — despite it being about a minor personality.
It is a sort of rising hedge-trimmer whine when he is trying to talk over you. Then it is a disturbing baby-talk simper (disturbing because it is issuing from a grown man), when he is trying to ingratiate himself either with you, the presenter or the audience.”
What a fantastic article. Glad PH noted the insincere ‘mate’ which is often deployed by centrist/O’Brien disciples, either that or addressing people in a faux friendly way by their first name
Driving at 20, is a pain in the neck, but it makes perfect sense to me.
https://www.roadsafetyknowledgecentre.org.uk/rskc-54/
If Chris Rea lived in Wales he would need to start driving home for Christmas today
Not an instruction.
https://twitter.com/sgfmann/status/1703869701422510220/photo/1
https://people.com/mcdonalds-is-giving-out-50-cent-double-cheeseburgers-7969887
Barclay needs to get back to the table.
"As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky prepares to visit Capitol Hill later this week to lobby for additional aid in his country’s war against Russia, a conservative group released a “report card” Monday grading House Republicans on their support for Kyiv.
The newly released analysis highlights the stark divide within the Republican Party on providing more financial assistance to Ukraine. Of the 222 members, nearly as many failed the report card as received the highest mark. Defending Democracy Together, led by Republican strategist Sarah Longwell and conservative political commentator Bill Kristol, doled out 82 A’s, 43 B’s, eight C’s, 17 D’s and 72 F’s."
(Links omitted.)
source$: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/18/republicans-ukraine-house-congress/
report card: https://gopforukraine.com/ukraine-report-card/
The group is trying to put some pressure on erring members by sponsoring ads for Ukraine in their districts. In at least a few districts, this issue might be important, for example, districts with substantial numbers of Ukrainian-Americans, and Polish-Americans.
If in 6 months you can show how many lives are saved or how much time is lost you can make a decision as to whether to continue with it. It should be set up that way from the start with as little expense in signage as possible.
More experiments, less dogma!
Personally I'm not convinced a blanket 20 is a good thing but I can't really see the problem with it in most residential areas so lets try it and see...
That politicians blaming the civil service for their own shortcomings is every bit as much a reality as the 'not fit for purpose' narrative.
The Brexit successive governments tried to bring about was so hopelessly muddled a project that the best civil service imaginable could not have effectively delivered it.