meanwhile, as our heroes play tatas in big wagons catching a heinous deviant on a mobile phone, another couple of people have died after being knifed in (according to its elected leader) one of the safest cities of the world.
From the article :
For me, the tipping point was the crash on the A34 in 2016 when the driver of a truck, who moments before had been changing music tracks on his mobile phone, drove his vehicle into the back of a stationary car, killing all four of its occupants,” says Colin Evans, Highways England safety officer for the south-east
Yeah, as you say, victimless crime, isn't it ...
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meanwhile, as our heroes play tatas in big wagons catching a heinous deviant on a mobile phone, another couple of people have died after being knifed in (according to its elected leader) one of the safest cities of the world.
Texting while driving is very dangerous. A motorway pile up can and does kill many people.
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meanwhile, as our heroes play tatas in big wagons catching a heinous deviant on a mobile phone, another couple of people have died after being knifed in (according to its elected leader) one of the safest cities of the world.
Horses and Courses.
Of course we need Coppers on streets deterring or catching thugs with knives, clubs or whatever.
But we need them on the road too catching speeders, tailgaters and those who still think driving while holding a phone - never mind texting or typing - are somehow risk free.
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meanwhile, as our heroes play tatas in big wagons catching a heinous deviant on a mobile phone, another couple of people have died after being knifed in (according to its elected leader) one of the safest cities of the world.
Thank the Coalition and subsequent Conservative government for the cuts in police officer numbers, which are a direct result of cuts in budgets to the forces - under our strong and stable leader's oversight when she was Home Secretary.
According to official Home Office figures, the total police officer workforce for England and Wales in September 2016 was 122,859.
In September 2010, when the Coalition took power, the figure was 141,850. So numbers fell by 18,991 (around 13%).
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Thank the Coalition and subsequent Conservative government for the cuts in police officer numbers, which are a direct result of cuts in budgets to the forces - under our strong and stable leader's oversight when she was Home Secretary.
Some people have short memories:
From 2001:
"Police budgets are being slashed under Labour, with a study showing that Tony Blair has halved the annual increase to forces across England. Constabularies got twice as big a rise each year under John Major."
www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/apr/15/whitehall...l
And 1999:
Tories say Labour's failing the police
"More than half the police forces in England and Wales have seen a reduction in the number of officers since Labour came to power, according to the Conservatives"
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/250957.stm
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Some people have short memories:
From 2001:
"Police budgets are being slashed under Labour, with a study showing that Tony Blair has halved the annual increase to forces across England. Constabularies got twice as big a rise each year under John Major."
www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/apr/15/whitehall...l
And 1999:
Tories say Labour's failing the police
"More than half the police forces in England and Wales have seen a reduction in the number of officers since Labour came to power, according to the Conservatives"
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/250957.stm
I don't have a short memory, and if the Conservative party was as committed to effective policing as the BBC story you linked to points out, you'd think they would be actively seeking to increase the number of officers, rather than cutting budgets. But here we are.
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Some people have short memories:
From 2001:
"Police budgets are being slashed under Labour, with a study showing that Tony Blair has halved the annual increase to forces across England. Constabularies got twice as big a rise each year under John Major."
www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/apr/15/whitehall...l
And 1999:
Tories say Labour's failing the police
"More than half the police forces in England and Wales have seen a reduction in the number of officers since Labour came to power, according to the Conservatives"
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/250957.stm
I don't have a short memory, and if the Conservative party was as committed to effective policing as the BBC story you linked to points out, you'd think they would be actively seeking to increase the number of officers, rather than cutting budgets. But here we are.
Funny how the Police have 'enough officers' to, for example:
- (thought) Police people on the intenet telling jokes and/or making serious (and not illegal) commentary on issues of the day (even if that 'offends' snowflakes);
- policing the playground to stop kids 'being mean' to eachother, and;
- especially go after Tory politicians and establishment figures (former army chiefs etc), many of whom are now dead over (tenuous at best) 'claims' of sexual abuse that turn out to be obviously false (and should never have gone further than a short preliminary enquiry costing very little, with the quality of the complainant on hand).
Virtue-signalling to the hard Left/SWJs at its worst, helping no-one. They DO have enough money - they just spend it very unwisely, in my view. Not helped by councils and government doing the same in many areas of their responsibilities that either cause or exacerbate crime.
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meanwhile, as our heroes play tatas in big wagons catching a heinous deviant on a mobile phone, another couple of people have died after being knifed in (according to its elected leader) one of the safest cities of the world.
...and 34 people died on UK roads each week last year!
(1792 total in 2016).
If that number died in train or aircraft crashes we'd have an outcry. But we have this huge blind spot when it comes to cars.
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..and 34 people died on UK roads each week last year!
(1792 total in 2016).
If that number died in train or aircraft crashes we'd have an outcry. But we have this huge blind spot when it comes to cars.
Hmmm. Considering the up to 13 million tin boxes hurtling towards each other at closing speeds of over 100mph, a good proportion of which are driven by people of below average intelligence, flanked by solid objects like trees, posts or buildings, and their frequent contact with cyclists and sometimes inebriated pedestrians, I think the figure is surprisingly low. In France it's double that.
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Darwinism works, but unfortunately the innoncent suffer, as always.
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<< If that number died in train or aircraft crashes we'd have an outcry. But we have this huge blind spot when it comes to cars. >>
You can't meaningfully compare those figures. There may be several hundred people on a train - which can't easily veer off course and hit other things or people - all in the charge of one driver (and signallers of course). The same number would be in a few hundred cars playing dodgems. It's no wonder the accident rates are different.
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Or it might be that we allow someone to pass a test at 17 and never have to have another day of training, ever.
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Or it might be that we allow someone to pass a test at 17 and never have to have another day of training, ever.
Worse still, the fact that during the 53 years before self-certification for licence renewal kicks in, there is absolutely no provision for checking of eyesight, hearing, reflexes or hand-eye coordination - although thanks to the wonders of omnipresent CCTV and ANPR, a car with its MOT one day out of date instantly converts the driver into a suspect, and an agonisingly long delay between a driver parking and paying for the privilege can similarly bring swift justice crashing down on the undoubtedly heinous criminal and reap juicy financial"rewards" for the powers-that-be.
Funny old world, eh?
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