tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post1673092050137653101..comments2024-03-29T07:42:38.650+00:00Comments on The Pub Curmudgeon: Gone in a flashCurmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-51114183476987601672010-08-07T19:13:46.683+01:002010-08-07T19:13:46.683+01:00As soon as satnavs started picking
out the money s...As soon as satnavs started picking<br />out the money spinners and the<br />cashcows stopped yielding a nice little earner,the camera's days<br />were up.Anyone with more than 1 GCE o level could have sussed out<br />their futility unless they were<br />spaced out every 500 Metres on every road in Britain. Unfortunately(Big YIN) the funds<br />saved will now go to clamping down on pubs with smoking shelters with<br />more than 2 sides.<br />Go easy on the speeding motorists<br />which INCLUDES MOST MPs<br />Hit the backyard smoker which<br />EXCLUDES MOST MPs.<br /><br />Freezing FredAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-74983857132569382982010-08-07T18:05:55.896+01:002010-08-07T18:05:55.896+01:00"but if local councils genuinely believed the...<i>"but if local councils genuinely believed they were effective, surely they would be fighting to keep them and cutting other areas of expenditure instead"</i><br /><br />Exactly, and I hope all councils follow suit and stop funding the percecution of bars and their owners and staff, who get caught out by smokers smoking in their establishments without the owners knowledge or consent. They did nothing wrong, the smoker did, sometimes willfully, sometimes by accident but the publican is punished to the enth degree...this is so fucking wrong.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10072165710888952465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-15785326790512483472010-08-07T17:56:47.988+01:002010-08-07T17:56:47.988+01:00Couldn't agree more - and hopefully the declin...Couldn't agree more - and hopefully the decline of speed cameras will concentrate minds on providing proper traffic policing.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-89355199819027723232010-08-07T17:53:52.391+01:002010-08-07T17:53:52.391+01:00Official figures show that bad driving, such as in...Official figures show that bad driving, such as inattention, not looking, losing control of the car, and so on, causes far more fatalities on the road than speed. Yet we have put all our eggs in the anti-speed basket and got rid of traffic police who are needed to deal with the greater problems caused by bad driving.Neville Grundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10923209266005338452noreply@blogger.com