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Sunak’s way out line with opinion with his 20 MPH pledge – politicalbetting.com
Sunak’s way out line with opinion with his 20 MPH pledge – politicalbetting.com
This is so odd. > 70% of people in tonnes of British Social Attitudes surveys support 20mph limits in residential areas. It *might* be true if you replace "British people" with "Conservative voters", but even then… https://t.co/jTkIcdODmo pic.twitter.com/3suetbAivR
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Remember him using a member of the public's car to pretend to fill up at a petrol station. Nobody believes he actually cares about this stuff.
As ever, this is solving the wrong problem. The problem is not that 30 is too fast, ut is that a small handful wildly exceed it. I have no problem with traffic passing my house at 30; I get a bit irritated when they go past at 50.
If it wouldn't be utterly ridiculous, and possibly also suicidal, another leadership election might not be a bad idea.
Mind you I do want to see Sunak campaiging, it should be at least as entertaining a May was.
We do have 50s that should be 70s on motorways.
I'm convinced some Sundays there are bikers racing the lap of Dane Rd and M60 J6 to J7 at stupid speeds.
Can hear the bikes and occasionally see them flying passed.
NY Times
I think I've seen more up to date polling on 20mph limits (and in favour) so it's an odd graph to use.
At least Boris had drive, pun intended.
(but this is your barbeque @rcs1000 !)
A few names mentioned in this obituary.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kr_F0h5k7Og
a) people lie (even when anonymous) and give the “right answer”; and
b) what people think is right for their road, on which their kids play, is different from what they think about the road they drive down elsewhere.
See, statistical analysis lessons passim.
"Las Vegas police arrest man in connection with murder of rapper Tupac Shakur in 1996"
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2022/07/14/874c7/3
I don't see any reason why it would have changed significantly since then.
Small roads around a housing estate might be one person’s view of “residential streets”, as opposed to the main road through a small town or village.
I'd never twigged it was because of the Ducatti shop though.
Actually, the problem isn't that people don't follow the rules, it's that people's reaction to that is to tighten the rules, rather than to enforce them.
Democracy is a key British value, Rishi.
For some roads I think you need a national standard. See also motorways and dual carriageways.
Im okay with it in residential but against if its the default for urban.
https://twitter.com/sambrodey/status/1707786268065624463
But then, Lancashire County Council don't have Mark Drakeford.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12575763/BORIS-JOHNSON-not-scrap-hs2-manchester-leg.html
'The same principle could be applied in Manchester, where it is estimated that the northern leg would unleash growth worth £100 billion. We simply cannot afford to abandon this vision now — to panic, and throw up our hands, and say it is all too difficult.'
Published 4 hours ago"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-66959145
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66942594
A 17-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with murdering 15-year-old Elianne Andam in south London.
The boy, who cannot legally be named because of his age, is also charged with possessing a kitchen knife in a public place without good reason.
If votes are going to be given to 16 and 17 year olds, then this law needs to change as well.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/29/feinstein-death-senate-seat-contest-00119079
...Newsom has committed to selecting a Black woman but said he would choose a short-term replacement rather than elevate one of the candidates running to replace Feinstein. That creates a complicated political calculation: Newsom must find a candidate who is both qualified for the job but would also be satisfied with a brief tenure and willing to give up any current elected position...
The answer is that we train drivers properly and hold them to account. 30 (or 20) is the maximum speed limit. You go more slowly depending on risk. Trying to police that with ever changing, specific speeds for specific areas is silly.
But I take the point above, where it be done and not be confusing we can devolve the decision.
(Allowing for the fact that my actual preference is to abolish local Government altogether).
“If i can’t have you, nobody else will!”
Sadly, in a fortnight or so, another love would have come along!
Tragic.
I have had huge success in my life if we assess a life by such measures as public profile, influence, impact etc. but you know nothing of this because I never talk about it, and remain behind a VPN.
Of course, I didn't marry a husband with millions upon millions and nor did I become a member of parliament. But, then, I have little but contempt for both. They do not bring happiness.
Nevertheless, we must judge people according to what they set out to achieve. As a Prime Minister (if not as a husband, father, wealth inheritor, wealth creator, Wykehamist, mathematician, headboy) Rishi Sunak is an abysmal failure. One of the worst Prime Ministers of my lifetime, even by recent low standards. An unelected Prime Minister who is utterly useless at the one job by which we, the ordinary voter, must assess him.
On the only thing which actually now matters: the job for which he will be marked, he gets 0/100.
In the universities of Beijing, they teach a course in political science in which they dwell — as you might expect — on the disadvantages of democracy.
To prove to their avid communist students that democratically elected politicians are chronically unable to take decisions that are in the interests of the whole nation, the Chinese politics professors have a text from the UK. It is a story, they say, that tells you all you need to know about political weakness, about chopping and changing, and craven short-term decision making.
Yup — their theme is HS2, where the contrast with Chinese high-speed rail is already embarrassing, if not frankly humiliating.
Wow, Sunak's doing well ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election
Cul de sacs then 20 is plenty.
Through roads, 30 is low, 40 would be preferable if possible.
News to me if so, and I drive a lot in Lancashire.
Maybe if they did it was in cul de sacs only and not through roads, which is entirely reasonable. Or maybe you've got wrong end of the stick?
One North Wales council could soon be charging the highest second homes tax in the country. Councillors on Conwy council will be asked in the coming weeks to decide on the level of Council Tax Premium on second homes and long term empty homes for 2024/25.
The rate is currently 50% but the recommendation is to move to 100% by April 2024. This move is fairly in line with some other counties and below the 150% charged in Gwynedd.
But members will also be asked to recommend an indicative level of premium of 200% on second and empty homes from April 1 2025. The maximum that can be charged under Welsh Government rules is 300%.
I don't know that this is being written up as all that much of a problem for Newsom. It's the largest state in the US with a deep Democrat bench. He's boxed himself in slightly with a pledge to choose a black female candidate, but even with that limitation on his range of options there's absolutely bound to be a few retired congresswomen, state senators, Berkeley professors or whoever who'll do a perfectly competent turn for 12 months, get their name on the honours board, thank Gavin profusely, and return to relative obscurity. It's a nice gig.
If Meghan Markle were to become the Junior Democratic Senator for California then Donald Trump would have an aneurism, thus taking him out of the race for next US President, and saving American democracy.
Governor Newsom, you know it makes sense.
And the candidate who fills the seat isn't taking it permanently, they're just a spare filling in until the real intended steps forward. Her family has some experience of that.
Come on Meghan, it's your time to serve.
The likelihood is, anyway, that he'll choose a senior worthy who honestly isn't bothered about trying to pull a fast one for the chance of a six year term and is just pleased to get on the honours board.
People are over-complicating a relatively straightforward issue for Newsom (that he's had plenty of time to think about as Feinstein hasn't been the very picture of health.
Maybe the public might be realizing this too and the more deflection he attempts the more this leads to even more voter anger at the waste of space .
I've just seen a sign-up list of 65 of them for an event I'm running that asks about special dietary requirements and only 9 are vegetarian or vegan (only 4 are vegan).
Everyone else? Normal.
Same in London:
(green lines are 20mph, blue are 30. That map is 3 years old - all of the remaining blue lines in Camden, Islington, Hackney, Haringey, Tower Hamlets, and the northern sections of Lambeth and Southwark have now green.
I don't know how all-pervasive this is. But then I also don't know how all-pervasive it is in Wales.
Those who would prefer not to have their kids mown down by a 4x4? Feck 'em.
One thing that can be observed is how 'panic' is increasingly driving government policy. We've seen this with building safety and fire safety. The vulnerability with highway safety is the same. You just have one bereaved parent and a gruesome child fatality and it becomes impossible to do anything other than reduce the speed limit to 20, or 10, or even 5, because anyone who gets in the way of the change is basically a child murderer.
It's the smallest of small beans when the deficit is so large, the NHS waiting lists so long, there's a major war in Europe, inflation is still high, there's a chronic shortage of housing and myriad other problems and opportunities.
But, yeah, the Prime Minister is setting the speed limit on Acacia Avenue, and ensuring that the pothole on the way to Tesco is filled. Rishi's priorities.
How is that leading?
https://youtu.be/v3A-ubUIX6s?si=IhWCV9uJu79aucPe
*I appreciate this is a Hitler Rant Parody, but still.