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The harsh truth about Tory policies

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  • treliac
    treliac Posts: 4,524 Forumite
    shuze wrote: »
    Speed cameras are a tax on the stupid.

    Interesting .... guess we must all be stupid then. Is there anyone who seriously believes they have never crept over the speed limit?
  • the_ash_and_the_oak
    the_ash_and_the_oak Posts: 1,636 Forumite
    treliac wrote: »
    Interesting .... guess we must all be stupid then. Is there anyone who seriously believes they have never crept over the speed limit?

    I have never done this (and if I had I would have no problem in accepting the consequences and swelling the coffers a little)
    Prefer girls to money
  • treliac
    treliac Posts: 4,524 Forumite
    the_ash_and_the_oak wrote: »
    I have never done this (and if I had I would have no problem in accepting the consequences and swelling the coffers a little)

    You mean you've never gone 1 or 2 miles per hour over the speed limit - on any road????

    I'd argue there's no-one who can say that, but I guess I will just bow down to your superiority over most of the rest of us.
  • the_ash_and_the_oak
    the_ash_and_the_oak Posts: 1,636 Forumite
    treliac wrote: »
    You mean you've never gone 1 or 2 miles per hour over the speed limit - on any road????

    I'd argue there's no-one who can say that, but I guess I will just bow down to your superiority over most of the rest of us.

    Never - I don't drive
    Prefer girls to money
  • treliac
    treliac Posts: 4,524 Forumite
    edited 7 November 2009 at 11:37PM
    the_ash_and_the_oak wrote: »
    Never - I don't drive

    Ha, ha, well done :T

    Just wait til you do .......... :p (There, I'm assuming again - that you're quite young!)
    if I had I would have no problem in accepting the consequences and swelling the coffers a little

    You'd have to swell the coffers more than a little if they caught YOU driving!!
    .
  • the_ash_and_the_oak
    the_ash_and_the_oak Posts: 1,636 Forumite
    I prob look at drivers the way some of you guys look at poor people imo
    Prefer girls to money
  • shuze
    shuze Posts: 749 Forumite
    treliac wrote: »
    Interesting .... guess we must all be stupid then. Is there anyone who seriously believes they have never crept over the speed limit?

    Probably not, but speed cameras won't do you for 31 in a 30 zone. It isn't designed for people who creep over the limit, as you put it.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    the_ash_and_the_oak wrote: »
    I prob look at drivers the way some of you guys look at poor people imo

    :rotfl:

    I look at driving as essential. But then I don't live in London.

    From my last house to my last job was 45 miles. That took 45 minutes by car. Or 2.5 hours and £12 by public transport.

    Not driving is simply not an option for most people outside London IMO.
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    shuze wrote: »
    Probably not, but speed cameras won't do you for 31 in a 30 zone. It isn't designed for people who creep over the limit, as you put it.

    No, but scammera vans sitting on bridges at 5.45am on a fine summers morning on the M4 will do you for 83mph.

    Now tell me, who was at danger? Me? The one person in my rear view mirror quite a way back, or the two lorries about a minute away from me at that speed?
  • treliac
    treliac Posts: 4,524 Forumite
    shuze wrote: »
    Probably not, but speed cameras won't do you for 31 in a 30 zone. It isn't designed for people who creep over the limit, as you put it.

    Husband of a friend says he was done for this? Doesn't it depend on the authority?

    How far over do you think it takes then?
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