Autoshite seat in government , what would you do ?????

[Milford Cubicle]

Fuck awful BNP poster

Please tell me that isn't a real poster!

Yes it is. All their literature and posters are like that - awful graphic design and ill-judged messages.

[dieselnutjob]

wow, just noticed that.the question "what would Jesus do?" is a question that they obviously haven't actually asked someone who has studied anything about what Jesus actually did or said.The funiest one was the picture of a Spitfire on their website which was actually from a Polish squadron.As the BNP want to throw people out of this country who were actually born here and never lived anywhere else I think my party's "feck off and leave us alone" slogan also applies to the BNP too. They want to interfere too much, ban them.

[Pete-M]

Excellent, that will only cost about eleventy billion to implement and be impossible to police, let's just make it more difficult and expensive for haulage operators, they only have to pay more for their overpriced fuel, so I am sure they will be happy to do that so you don't have them in the middle lane. Not being able to drive for a week? More people on the dole que then, and nobody with the training to take their place. Are you going to implement this driving ban for car drivers too?

Impossible to police? nah. Proximity sensors in the cabs, the same ones that trigger the traffic light system. Linked with the tacho and it's done. Easy to implement. Digital tachos mean that both drivers responsible for an over-long overtake are off the road until they learn not to do it again.As for the drivers being off for a week, that's simple, all they need to do is learn to only overtake when they can actually do it in a sensible amount of time instead of slowing the nations motorways for mile after mile.Car drivers will be banned for dawdling in lane two or three without reason. I said that...

[dieselnutjob]

to be honest I'd rather they arrest the twat that keyed my car last week

[Mr Lobster]

I'd have a decent set of common sense laws which were properly enforced. Other than that I'd leave people to get on with their lives.That should do it...

[maxpower]

a load of old drivel

Please try to be less thick.

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[saabhappy]

It's a bit discouraging when you think that from what they post some people are really not ready to vote at 18.....and it's pretty disheartening to think that some aren't ready at 36 either.

[chester drawers]

Hanley ring road completion date to be moved forward by a year.

Ah The Potteries Way. Like a ring road, only with a gap in it. Under construction for decades and still not finished. Some nice old buildings were flattened for bugger all gain.I’m quite amused by the “sweeping boulevards with Mediterranean style cafes†promised between Shelton and Hanley. For cafes read kebab shops run by gangsters. With students being vigorously sick outside them.

[Des]

My manifesto.All the common sense obvious stuff that we shall never ever see a government actually do, like wipe out all waste of space leeches from NHS, civil service, local government etc. abolish taxes, etc. etc, but most importantly, build a huge big fuckoff catapult, proper Roman style jobbie, let's build it the size of Slough, even better let's build it on Slough, point it vaguely at Germany and start disposing of all the undesirable shit we've managed to collect over the last few decades. for fun, pop a couple of BNPers in an M*BGT and emulate the Nazis driving off the bridge scene from the Blues Brothers, or imagine the joy of watching bundles of z list celebs and vile wannabes disappearing over the horizon, round up fags on their harleys, chavs, pikeys, Trottered Reliants, you get the idea, dross disposal.

[FredTransit]

Excellent, that will only cost about eleventy billion to implement and be impossible to police, let's just make it more difficult and expensive for haulage operators, they only have to pay more for their overpriced fuel, so I am sure they will be happy to do that so you don't have them in the middle lane. Not being able to drive for a week? More people on the dole que then, and nobody with the training to take their place. Are you going to implement this driving ban for car drivers too?

Impossible to police? nah. Proximity sensors in the cabs, the same ones that trigger the traffic light system. Linked with the tacho and it's done. Easy to implement. Digital tachos mean that both drivers responsible for an over-long overtake are off the road until they learn not to do it again.As for the drivers being off for a week, that's simple, all they need to do is learn to only overtake when they can actually do it in a sensible amount of time instead of slowing the nations motorways for mile after mile.Car drivers will be banned for dawdling in lane two or three without reason. I said that...

Proximity sensors? Another expense? This is seriously not realistic, let alone cost effective. Spoken like someone who has never had to keep to timed drops and driver's hours.

[Pete-M]

Proximity sensors? Another expense? This is seriously not realistic, let alone cost effective. Spoken like someone who has never had to keep to timed drops and driver's hours.

Easy, the expense would be paid for out of the wages given to truckers who take forever to overtake :-DMy job involves getting a fleet of 90 cars up and down the country to different places within very fixed time scales. I'm doing about 650 miles a week to different parts of the country, and another 650 or so on trains, etc. I spend a lot of my working week on motorways where the only cause of most tailbacks is HGVs turning the motorway into a 56 mph roadblock, it's unusual to be able to pass them at 60 because all the other traffic on the motorway has to funnel past, single file. It gets worse the further south you go. On the M6 / M78 it's pretty easy, but the M6 North between Birmingham and Stafford is always slow as fuck because of HGVs. On those special days of the year when the truckers aren't working it's an easy 85. Getting to Birmingham from here is half an hour quicker just because what trucks there are are in lane one. I also drive in Europe quite often, and the trucks there don't do it anywhere near as often, not even in Holland - the only country in Europe with a higher density of traffic.It needs to be dealt with, and as someone pointed out recently, they're trying this scheme on the M54 and the truckers are ignoring it. This means it needs to be dealt with more firmly, if it means losing their license and wages, they won't do it, haulage companies will have to be more realistic with their delivery times, and the country won't be held up by the truckers.I've got nothing against truckers themselves, they tend to be very good drivers, but they really need to time their overtaking a lot better and be more courteous. I know the fuel bills will be larger for accelerating a big old lump from 45-56 instead of cruising all day at 55 and fuck the world, but I'd give haulage companies a diesel concession to pay for it. Which they'd lose whenever one of their drivers was caught pulling the 56mph Grand Prix stunt.Diesel car drivers would pay more tax on fuel to help pay for it. It'd also fund the historic VED for 25+ year old cars and cheaper petrol. Tankers delivering quality petrol wouldn't have to pay tax on their fuel at all

[Tayne]

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[FredTransit]

Proximity sensors? Another expense? This is seriously not realistic, let alone cost effective. Spoken like someone who has never had to keep to timed drops and driver's hours.

Easy, the expense would be paid for out of the wages given to truckers who take forever to overtake :-DMy job involves getting a fleet of 90 cars up and down the country to different places within very fixed time scales. I'm doing about 650 miles a week to different parts of the country, and another 650 or so on trains, etc. I spend a lot of my working week on motorways where the only cause of most tailbacks is HGVs turning the motorway into a 56 mph roadblock, it's unusual to be able to pass them at 60 because all the other traffic on the motorway has to funnel past, single file. It gets worse the further south you go. On the M6 / M78 it's pretty easy, but the M6 North between Birmingham and Stafford is always slow as fuck because of HGVs. On those special days of the year when the truckers aren't working it's an easy 85. Getting to Birmingham from here is half an hour quicker just because what trucks there are are in lane one. I also drive in Europe quite often, and the trucks there don't do it anywhere near as often, not even in Holland - the only country in Europe with a higher density of traffic.It needs to be dealt with, and as someone pointed out recently, they're trying this scheme on the M54 and the truckers are ignoring it. This means it needs to be dealt with more firmly, if it means losing their license and wages, they won't do it, haulage companies will have to be more realistic with their delivery times, and the country won't be held up by the truckers.I've got nothing against truckers themselves, they tend to be very good drivers, but they really need to time their overtaking a lot better and be more courteous. I know the fuel bills will be larger for accelerating a big old lump from 45-56 instead of cruising all day at 55 and fuck the world, but I'd give haulage companies a diesel concession to pay for it. Which they'd lose whenever one of their drivers was caught pulling the 56mph Grand Prix stunt.Diesel car drivers would pay more tax on fuel to help pay for it. It'd also fund the historic VED for 25+ year old cars and cheaper petrol. Tankers delivering quality petrol wouldn't have to pay tax on their fuel at all

You drive cars. They are not limited to 56mph. You have the power to get past a truck, and if any car driver is too timid to 'funnel' past a line of trucks, it's them that are holding the traffic up. Truck drivers don't do the speed they do to piss you off, they do it cos they are limited to it. It's very easy to say the companies should be more realistic with their delivery times, but it's the bods in the offices that can't understand why you can't get from London to Hull in half an hour cos it's 'only that far on the map' that are the realistic ones. They are the same customers that complain cos you had to stick to the speed limits and get stuck in road works. This country depends on road transport, until it doesn't you won't have the motorways to yourself.

[Cavcraft]

Offer the people of England a referendum on whether they want Scotland/Wales/Northern Ireland to have independence. And then abide by the results, if we stay then English people can't moan about about it and must accept Scottish bank notes without complaint.Upon pain of death.

I'd do my best to get Wales, Scotland and N. Ireland back on 'our' side and go back to being called Great Britain rather then the U.K.Four seperate identities but working together to make us the force that we used to be.Fuck what's happened in the past, there's only so many times we (as a nation) can apologise for it and although some big mistakes and some appalling things were carried ou,t we need to stop being run by hand wringers/apologists and to stop being every fucker else's bitch.I'd look into pulling out of the EU, I don't know enough about politics to know if this would be viable for British companies, and therefore stop the twats interfering if we wanted to melt out some justice to the scum of society.I don't care about people's colour or creed, makes no difference at all, but anyone not born in Britain who carries out a crime of any relatively serious (i.e 'jailable' sentence) gets fucked off back to which ever country they came from. Benefits stopped for anyone back door asylum seekers, benefits stopped for anyone hasn't worked in this country including some of the workshy pondlife who were born here.All single faith schools abolished, all state owned/run buildings to fly the Union flag and that of the country they are in (i.e Saltire/Cross of St George/etc) and possibly a shoot to kill policy for most caravan towing people.

[whitevanman]

I'd do my best to get Wales, Scotland and N. Ireland back on 'our' side and go back to being called Great Britain rather then the U.K.

Great Britain = England, Scotland, Walesit only becomes the United Kingdom if you include Nothern Ireland

[Milford Cubicle]

What's wrong with the EU? Lots of things probably, but all the reasons you hear about are pretty flimsy I think - especially regarding EU regulations and laws. I think "the EU told us to do it" is just used as a weak excuse by our weaselly and weak-willed representatives who can't be arsed standing up for the country's needs.

[Cavcraft]

To be fair what you said rings true and recently I've only be reading the gutter press which may have inadvertantly swayed my judgement.It just appears that we (allegedly) throw loads of money to them and don't seem to get much back that I can see, other than supposed 'courts of justice' and the opening of the floodgates to immigration. We should be more like France where it's far harder to lay people off at the drop of a hat and where the citizens seem far keener on defending their jobs.

[pandamonium]

I wholeheartedly agree with most of the sentiments in this thread. :DHowever, on the subject of making new drivers ride a motorcycle/scooter before a car, I disagree.I think two-wheeled travel should be limited to those who can actually drive, and not just pass a short CBT. I have lost count of the number of times I have seen a teenager/ group of teens on mopeds driving erratically. Plus, it would be unfair to force people with a fear of motorcycles to ride one (like myself).

[Cavcraft]

Panda, until you've ridden one (long term) or a motorbike you wouldn't know what it's like dealing with some of the absolute arseholes on the road today.I honestly reckon people who've ridden bikes/scooters make better car drivers because they're more aware of the presence of two wheelers, and less likely to treat them like they're something they stood in.Obv. it won't work for everyone, some people couldn't physically ride a bike or scooter but it will without doubt make people better car drivers mate.

[pandamonium]

Oh, yes I agree, I just don't think it should be compulsory.I physically shake and break into a cold sweat if I get on a bike (I tried riding my brother's 50cc scooter once - got 100yds, had to get off), ever since I had an accident on a pushbike at age 15. I was travelling down a housing estate road at a fair rate (onboard computer read 28mph) when I came to a bend. I decided in my infinite wisdom to try and lean like the professional riders do. Unfortunately I had the wrong pedal close to the ground and needless to say I slid on my side into the closest gutter. I wasn't seriously hurt, but I have never trusted 2 wheeled transport since. Odd, as it wasn't the bikes fault. I guess I should clarify... I haven't trusted myself with 2 wheeled transport since! Put it this way - I've never fallen off a car.

[pandamonium]

P.S. I have massive respect for anyone who rides a motorbike on todays roads and I always try to give them plenty space. I just don't think such a scary machine should be entrusted to a 16 yr old!

[Guest]

What's wrong with the EU? Lots of things probably, but all the reasons you hear about are pretty flimsy I think - especially regarding EU regulations and laws.

One particular problem is that any EU proposal, no matter how ridiculous, is reported by the papers as if it is definitely coming in. "NOW BRUSSELS WANT US TO DO THIS", etc. You don't seem to hear about it being knocked back for being a crap idea, as happens most of the time.

[Richard]

The most famous is the straight banana. It's repeated somewhere in the media almost daily but I'm pretty sure it came from supermarkets, not the EU.

[Guest]

The bananas thing was to do with fruit being sold in three different classes dependent on grade. The highest-tier "Extra" allowed very few defects (including overall shape), the mid-tier "Class 1" allowed a few more and the lowest-tier "Class 2" was pretty much free provided the inside of the banana was OK.The rules were basically just to stop really rubbish-looking off-colour bruised bananas being sold as high quality product, which is fair enough you'd think. Excessively bent/straight/bruised/strangely-coloured ones could still be bought, just they'd be a Class 2 banana. Could never understand the fuss really.

[transfer]

To answer the original question, I would cut red tape until there are just a few short lengths blowing away in the wind. Slowly get rid of all the noddy jobs and make us competitive again, reality check big time. Stop making exams for children easier all the time. Make entry to universities reliant on ability, not the top 40%. Ideally 15% max to genuine university - most jobs need no more than A level abilities, most the ability to turn up on time, smile and not p1ss off 'coworkers'. Encourage enterprise, raise standards in everything and bring back common sense. Reduce the size of our govt. Only thing it should interfere in big time is public utilities, and invest in decent public transport as well as efficient energy production - the fact we have some of the most energetic tides in the world is one of our ways of ridding ourselves of the Russians' gas and Froggy nuclear industry - see how they build so many nuclear stations along their North Coast, directly upwind of Blighty. They understand the dangers, even protecting them from air attack with surface to air missiles. Heavy freight should be moved primarily by rail and sea - the sidings and yards to many factories are still there, just unused. Trying to navigate 44 tonne trucks along narrow lanes, over ancient bridges, through villages and small market towns is crazy. We have become completely obediant to Brussels, who only wishes to see us as a cheap labour zone of NW Europe.Remove the artificial squeeze (ridiculous planning regs, charge 3x council tax on holiday homes) on house building/artificially high prices to restore the housing market to reality, where those who aren't accountants/lawyers/solicitors can also afford a decent place to live. The economy shouldn't rely on tourism and artificially high house prices - it's a recipe for disaster. Put road tax onto petrol - and give the likes of Gordon Murray some real incentive to market a truly forward-looking car by putting 3 or 4 years of diminishing subsidy into a modular-construction machine which carries 2 or 3 people but can be built to carry up to 8 in other markets, and averages over 180mpg. Set minimum performance to prevent the engineers from continuing in the lazy way they are at present. Say 0-60 in under 12s and minimum of 90mph top speed. Make it a condition that it's suitable for emerging economies with poor roads - also called the UK. So good suspension and large diameter wheels for a start. It could be built in the UK for Europe as well as in India for the local, Chinese and African markets. The main reason the UK has become so utterly corrupt, backwards, un-innovative and most recently a place of almost unequalled economic divide is the string of poor government since ww2 and their repeated ars3-licking of multi-nationals, who only go wherever production is cheapest anyway, or back to their own country when things get sticky. Forget the sucking up to bankers, they're parasites on an economy when allowed the free rein Gordy Broon has given them. Let them choose to work somewhere because it offers a high quality of life. The UK should support the likes of Dyson and start taking a few risks - we used to lead the world in innovation before the invention of 'big government'. Never forget that when we were all round the world our govt was one sixth the size of what it is now. Says it all, really.

[Tayne]

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[saabhappy]

What's wrong with the EU? Lots of things probably, but all the reasons you hear about are pretty flimsy I think - especially regarding EU regulations and laws. I think "the EU told us to do it" is just used as a weak excuse by our weaselly and weak-willed representatives who can't be arsed standing up for the country's needs.

2 things:1. The EU is fatally corrupt and hasn't had a set of accounts signed off for donkey's years.2. Why does everybody have to be the same? The assumption that somebody can come up with laws and regulations that are relevant to each individual country is both arrogant and futile.If there was a referendum I'd vote to leave. I voted "Yes" in the previous referendum in the 70s because we weren't told truthfully what the purpose of membership was: Edward Heath lied. What I and millions of others thought we were voting for was the removal of some trading barriers, not a megastate.

[Lankytim]

Exactly, free trade within the E.U is great but why can't the U.K have control of 100% of the laws here. Whats the point in voting in a government if all they can do is implement European laws that we have no say over?My job inparticular is chock full of useless E.U rules which are total bollocks but im forced to abide by, obeying some of them means im often breaking U.K law. im sure most other people are affected in a similar way.

[transfer]

Agree totally with saabhappy. The fact that what the Scots don't think is the right policy for them, since it's made in London, so want independence perfectly explains why the EU as it intends to be at present is completely bo11ocks. How can the interest rate which is right for Stuttgart, Berlin or Paris possibly be right for Ireland or Portugal - let alone Greece. No large nation has ever come together with economic integration first - that's always been the very last part of the union. The US had a hundred years of war before the North and South came together to form the United States of America. A free trade area is what's needed with easy movements of people, goods and capital, not loads of unelected politicians payed squillions to make up laws which are their idea of utopia. Europe is risking sinking in a sea of red tape, too - West Germany and Japan made it to be the world's wealthiest nations and they are/were small nation states. Switzerland is independent and none the worse for it. Is the UK really crippled because we haven't joined the Euro? In the wake of the Greek disaster Germany wants to take away all control of a nation's economy and run one big Euro-Treasury. It all started after ww2 with the French being scared stiff of Germany re-emerging as a powerful state, so they entered a pact controlling coal and steel, keeping tabs on these important products. Ever since, the French have made the most of the Common Market/EEC/EC/EU/Eurozone, the 'Common Agricultural Policy' takes up nearly half of all the money spent by the EU and a large proportion of that goes to France. And as Jezza Clarkson said as he rolled up at a Euro toll booth - "No, I have already paid for this road." Look to how the 'No' vote by the Irish and others was ignored - "wrong answer, guys" - and states were invited to keep asking the question until the answer was 'Yes'. Or not ask again. Corruption rules.

[Lankytim]

Look to how the 'No' vote by the Irish and others was ignored - "wrong answer, guys" - and states were invited to keep asking the question until the answer was 'Yes'. Or not ask again. Corruption rules.

100 Nos and 1 Yes, means yes...