The Commisariat is at it again.

[A Scotsman]

I'm beginning to really wonder if there is something in the Westminster water that erodes MP's brain cells cos this idea just has to be the loopiest I've come across so far.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8205803/D...

[hornetrider]

That is pretty fking out there, jesus.

[k-ink]

Looks like Nissan owners will be making a living from causing traffic ques.

[Gun]

Just reading the headline I instantly knew it came from a Labour nut job, what a daft idea.

[thinfourth2]

Buy a tractor and trailer

Cover the back with 300 number plates

Drive around

Retire to Caribbean

[Petrolhead_Rich]

[The real Apache]

WTF is this obsession with speed? is it really that much of a problem? or do these idiots think that no one will die if we all obey the limit?

FWIW I've spent most of my life driving and very, very seldom does a car driven at high speed become noticeable, tailgaters, MLMs, truckers and lane changers however

[Lucas Ayde]

This is of course just an attempt to set the stage for levying extra road tax on anyone with points on their license. The 'discount' given to drivers without points will just bring the tax to what it otherwise would have been.

I have to hand it to him, politicians are pretty inventive when it comes to new ways to 'nickel and dime' the public and making it seem like they are doing them a favour ... Scum, the lot of them.

[Ed.]

Gun said:

Just reading the headline I instantly knew it came from a Labour nut job, what a daft idea.

Politician with their own idea, doubt it.
http://www.thefuntheory.com/2009/11/12/fun-theory-...

[Ed.]

What's more annoying is that the original idea was trialled on a downtown street where more people die in vehicle/ pedestrian collisions. Labours idea is to use it where there are no pedestrians on nice safe motorways with average speed cameras in place.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iynzHWwJXaA&fea...

[soad]

What a daft half-baked idea. I mean, come on

[havoc]

Labour, ideologically speaking, despise the car (as it is the clearest symbol of personal freedom and individual wealth).

So they want to do everything possible to put rules and restricitions around driving - to squeeze the freedom element out of it. And everything possible to tax the hell out of it (to remove any remaining wealth the car owner (how DARE he own a car) may have...

[jmorgan]

I will be OK then.


(I do think it is daft).

[Rawwr]

Rewarding people for obeying the law? How odd. If I manage to get through 2011 without raping and murdering anyone, can I have a new car?

[Parrot of Doom]

"“If you live in a village with one street which people go through really quickly and have a kid with a propensity to run through the gate, you might quite like a speed camera.”"

The woman is a stupid bh.

[007 VXR]

Rawwr said:

Rewarding people for obeying the law? How odd. If I manage to get through 2011 without raping and murdering anyone, can I have a new car?

You get my Vote for PM

[EDLT]

A Scotsman said:

I'm beginning to really wonder if there is something in the Westminster water that erodes MP's brain cells cos this idea just has to be the loopiest I've come across so far.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8205803/D...

Average speed cameras everywhere then, how much is that going to cost, and where is the money to pay the "good" drivers coming from?

Has the stupid not been watching the news over the past couple of years?

[Rawwr]

Parrot of Doom said:

"“If you live in a village with one street which people go through really quickly and have a kid with a propensity to run through the gate, you might quite like a speed camera.”"

Yeah, and you might want to keep your fanny closed until you can properly educate and look after what plops out of it, you stupid cow.

[BlueProp]

EDLT said:

A Scotsman said:

I'm beginning to really wonder if there is something in the Westminster water that erodes MP's brain cells cos this idea just has to be the loopiest I've come across so far.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/8205803/D...

Average speed cameras everywhere then, how much is that going to cost, and where is the money to pay the "good" drivers coming from?

Has the stupid not been watching the news over the past couple of years?

Labour plant a money tree orchard when they get in to power - hopefully never again.

[A Scotsman]

It reminds me of the old Soviet Union.

People that win points (and points mean prizes of course) will be made " A Hero of the Motoring Revolution" and entitled to an extra bag of potatoes per month once they retire when they're 85.