The Mail and the Motorist

Paul · **Posted:** Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:04 am

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There is a recruitment opportunity starting soon. All those that think speeding is acceptable, will be elligible to join the "crash test dummy" course. It was a big hit for nearly 3000 people in 2010. It could be your big chance in 2011, just keep away from the roads that my family & I drive on will you!

- Anne, West Midlands, 4/1/2011 23:00
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1A6upA1Au

any votes out there?

Bails · **Joined:** Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:16 am **Posts:** 957

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There is a recruitment opportunity starting soon. All those that think speeding is acceptable, will be elligible to join the "crash test dummy" course. It was a big hit for nearly 3000 people in 2010. It could be your big chance in 2011, just keep away from the roads that my family & I drive on will you!

- Anne, West Midlands, 4/1/2011 23:00
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1A6upA1Au

That's bloody fantastic!

horacegoesskiing · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:26 am

Plunder at the petrol pumps: Wholesale petrol price falls 2p in a month but the cost you pay RISES

My comment contributions:

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If you don't want to pay so much for your fuel there's a simple solution: buy a bike! It's got to be one of the greatest inventions ever!

- James, Cleethorpes, 1/2/2011 23:45

I would have thought the Mailites would like an easy way to avoid paying tax. But no- currently 18 in the red. Obviously it's easier to whinge than actually do something constructive!

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*****Sounds about right for this Country rip off the Brits. They soon put the price up but never put it down when the price goes down. Dearest in Europe now there a surprise. - Wind, In The Willows, 1/2/2011 23:40***** UK fuel prices are not the dearest in Europe. Norway easily has the highest petrol and diesel prices and according to the AA, who compile the average prices of fuel in most European nations every month, we had the fifth highest price of petrol in Europe in January. And just before the Tories increased fuel duty and VAT, it was about the ninth highest.

- James, Cleethorpes, 1/2/2011 23:50

A factual contribution; yet it's 3 in the red right now. What's not to like about proper facts?

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:50 am

Or buy a smaller car. The Mailites normally love the "people nowadays buy loads of expensive stuff they don't need". Cars though are an exception, for some reason.

Mr Mordon · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2011 10:42 am

Bang on.

It's one of my pet peaves that, folk moaning about the price of petrol whilst driving a huge 4x4 just to take the kids to school

Admirable Chrichton · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2011 6:35 pm

Mr Mordon wrote:

Bang on.

It's one of my pet peaves that, folk moaning about the price of petrol whilst driving a huge 4x4 just to take the kids to school

I know what you mean. Reminds me of that spoof car advert on the "radio stations" on GTA3, where the soundbite Mom exclaims the need to drive a vehicle that has the ability to traverse Arctic tundra, in order to do the school run!

Those Humvees are the worst. How many RPG wielding insurgents do you encounter on the way to the ASDA in Taunton??!

Paul · **Posted:** Sat Apr 09, 2011 10:17 pm

86mph and you won't be fined: New speed camera guidelines allow drivers to go even faster... with no points put on licence

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1J3xgGTgP

The facts sting a bit, try getting cheap insurance with points on you licence.

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Why do insurance companies consider drivers with points for speeding an increased risk and therefore bump up thier premiums? It's because they are considered dangerous!

- Rav Dave ( Driving Instructor), West Midlands, 9/4/2011 11:15
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Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

Today's headline:

Does the Mail realise that a lot of their readers are dangerous drivers? The headline on the website suggests not?

£100 fines for 'idiot' drivers: After years of speed cameras and penalties for ordinary* motorists, ministers switch focus to aggressive boy racers

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ke-up.html

Look!! A middle-class motorist being persecuted!

* See 'otherwise law-abiding'

crabcakes_windermere · **Joined:** Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:56 pm **Posts:** 2076

And the first time one of these otherwise law-abiding motorists gets a fine, he'll be sadfacing in the Mail while holding it up for all to see.

"Yes, I may have been doing 120mph and yes I had a nice bottle of prosecco with lunch at the club, but I'm a company accountant and my house is worth £450,000. It's just common sense that I wasn't going to do anything wrong, unlike some hooligan driving below the speed limit in an underpowered hatchback with a sticker on the boot - he's clearly an accident waiting to happen"

Timbo · **Posted:** Wed May 11, 2011 10:43 am

As always, the Mash has an excellent take on this:

Crackdown on drivers who don't vote
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/soci ... 105113797/

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Mr Hammond believes too many decent, middle class people are being victimised for doing nothing more serious than repeatedly breaking speed limits deemed safe by people who have thought about it for much, much longer than you have.

He said: "The prime minister's friend Jeremy says that hard-working types like you have 'had it up to here' with speed cameras that were invented for the specific purpose of stealing your decent, hard earned money and then giving it to poofs.

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The government has also pledged to remove cameras, bumps and speed limit signs from key marginals, except where they are positioned near primary schools with a comparatively small number of brown children.

Bails · **Joined:** Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:16 am **Posts:** 957

Why are they creating the impression that they can only do one or the other?

They're saying "Labour only went after people who drove 2mph over the limit, but ignored tailgates and ethnic minority yobbos. But we're going to go after people you don't like and let 'sensible' speeders get away with it".

Why not keep speed cameras, use all the trillions of pounds they generate to pay traffic cops, and then we can clamp down on tw*ts with a sense of entitlement and "boy racers".

As for twatface Hammond talking about drivers who are "merely" careless.....what a f*cking insult to the people killed by drivers who get a £100 fine and 3 points for 'careless driving'.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:27 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rdens.html

Have you ever wondered what the Mail opinion of traffic wardens is?

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Since the beginning of this month, a bureaucratic mix-up involving police and council has meant that the three police-employed traffic wardens are no longer patrolling the streets. The result should be a motorist’s paradise

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We all like to think that life would be bliss without traffic wardens. We hark back wistfully to an era before yellow lines, meters and wheel clamps

Mr Mordon · **Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2011 3:28 pm

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We all like to think that life would be bliss without traffic wardens. We hark back wistfully to an era before yellow lines, meters and wheel clamps

And not many bloody cars either!

Paul · **Posted:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 9:05 pm

Slow drivers 'are among most dangerous on roads' and cause crashes

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1Si2HvJZB

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So "143 accidents a year are caused directly by slow drivers". What about the thousands of accidents caused by fast and impatient drivers. If some of you think driving at 30 mph is slow, try driving into a brick wall at that speed and see how you get on.

- Anne, West Midlands, 20/7/2011 6:19
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Bails · **Joined:** Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:16 am **Posts:** 957

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In reaction to these slow drivers, almost half (45%) of motorists risk overtaking, thus increasing the chances of an accident. Frustrating though it is being stuck behind a slow driver, if you overtake when it's not safe to do so and have an accident, then it is still your fault.

- Iain, Southampton, 20/7/2011 9:21
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Good man Iain.

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