Tories - the fightback

[Tooting Gull]

One policy that would make you think about voting for Howard's mob. OK, maybe not vote for them, but just a mild pat on the back.

Abolishing speed cameras.

 

[CAFC Matt]

I got nothing against speed cameras

 

[Uncle Buck]

And that is a good policy because, it will allow people to speed in areas where there are limites for a reason.

Good one.

 

[3gulls]

One policy that would make you think about voting for Howard's mob. OK, maybe not vote for them, but just a mild pat on the back.

Abolishing speed cameras.

Cutting Blair's Stealth taxes!

 

[Perry's Tracksuit Bottoms]

renationalising the railways



















but that aint gonna happen

 

[Simster]

Cut stealth taxes but counterbalancing this with a new 50% top rate of income tax starting at earnings of £100k and above.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Speed cameras are nothing to do with safety, and everything to do with revenue raising, as are 'parking attendants'. Clearing the roads for the greater good, my arse. Anyway, you are at liberty to add your own.

 

[3gulls]

Speed cameras are nothing to do with safety, and everything to do with revenue raising, as are 'parking attendants'. Clearing the roads for the greater good, my arse. Anyway, you are at liberty to add your own.

They are just another Blair tax! Labour = tax and spend (unwisely!)

 

[Perry's Tracksuit Bottoms]

Speed cameras are nothing to do with safety, and everything to do with revenue raising.

Never the less, if you don't speed you don't give them any money. So what's the problem?

 

[Rangdo]

Speed cameras are nothing to do with safety, and everything to do with revenue raising, as are 'parking attendants'. Clearing the roads for the greater good, my arse. Anyway, you are at liberty to add your own.

Don't speed or park illegally, problem solved. It's more of a stupidity tax than a stealth tax.
My idea is abolish road tax and put the tax on fuel. That way the more you use the roads the more you contribute to their upkeep. Also, foreign drivers would be forced to contribute when they use our roads.

 

[Cian]

Abolishing speed cameras would lose them some of their traditional landed-gentry type voters who like being able to pootle along roads either on horseback or at 25MPH in a big jeep and not have people doing 90 behind them

 

[fatbadger]

Speed cameras are nothing to do with safety, and everything to do with revenue raising, as are 'parking attendants'.

Drivel. Utter drivel.

 

[Uncle Buck]

Never the less, if you don't speed you don't give them any money. So what's the problem?

Surely by cutting speed, you reduce the chance of accidents in built up areas.

 

[3gulls]

Never the less, if you don't speed you don't give them any money. So what's the problem?

Nothing, if speed limits were sensible. However, as it is they are too low in many areas (e.g. Motorways and "A" roads) and too high in others (e.g. near schools).

 

[wadhurstseagull]

Make voting Tory illegal - that would get my vote.

 

[3gulls]

The Torys should promise that we will never accept an EU superstate or the Euro whilst they are in power.

 

[Uncle Buck]

The Torys should promise that we will never accept an EU superstate or the Euro whilst they are in power.

Just lost my vote then, not that they had it.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Nothing, if speed limits were sensible. However, as it is they are too low in many areas (e.g. Motorways and "A" roads) and too high in others (e.g. near schools).

But surely the answer is to change the speed limits where they are wrong?

I think parking tickets and speeding fines are a tax on arrogance.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Let's get real here.

Councils and police forces are strapped for cash, and council taxes are jacked to the hilt.

Over-zealous parking attendants and police taking liberties with the siting of cameras is just one way in which both can make some easy cash, and it's all "justified" on safety grounds...

 

[The Large One]

People who live in country towns and villages (a stronghold of Conservative voters) would be appalled at the disappearance of speed cameras. The main road through these places is often narrow and dangerous. People in many places like these have campaigned for road safety measures, and the mere threat of a speed camera is enough to get most motorists to slow down - even if a little.

If it meant a free-for-all of driving through a village once again at 60mph, I am sure many people would be put off the idea - and they are some bloody stupid drivers about.

Plus this is a mere populist tactic from a cheap opportunist party. It will win them hardly any votes when the real issues in the UK are more important - Europe, Iraq, the economy, education, health. Even fox hunting and Falmer would be considered more important by many people than bloody speeding.

Hardly a fightback, more a gob off.