| The 20MPH punishments 08:34 - Aug 3 with 139465 views | SullutaCreturned |
Well the punishment for breaking the limit,
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/police-confirm-how-punish-drivers-
Given how many idiots are on the roads, the delivery drivers under pressure and the actual difficutly in staying below 20 (it is difficult, I do it every week when I go to Cardiff and it's harder than you'd think, specially going downhill) there will be a lot of speeding going on.
The Senedd expect the fire brigade to become a road safety unit, how stupid is that? The fire brigade have their job and it's hard enough for them to do that the way the Senedd behaves.
Then there's the pollution problem, all those cars tootling around in second gear will fill the streets with pollution, it'll rise and rise and the few accidents stopped by this madness will be replaced tenfold and more in the years to come by serious health issues, those with asthma can look out, better buy your respirators now.
I wonder if cancers will also increase?
By the time we have all gone electric, assuming we all do, thousands of lives will be blighted by illness. |  | | |  |
| The 20MPH punishments on 22:36 - Sep 21 with 1512 views | majorraglan |
The roads are a mess at the moment with lots of conflicting signage re speed limits.
My advice to those with a dash cam is make sure you keep your footage for 2 weeks (which is the time the police/gosafe have to serve you with a Notice of Intended Prosecution) because if you’re speeding and it’s down to confusing signage you’ll have a potential defence - if you don’t keep the footage you may find that by the time you get the NIP the council will have removed the confusing signage.
In terms of people like Lee Waters, the good citizens of Llanelli need to make it clear he’s on borrowed time and that he’ll be voted out at the next election. Same needs to happen with the others - if the strength of feeling is there amongst the masses it will work - hopefully focus his mind. | | | |
| The 20MPH punishments on 07:18 - Sep 22 with 1459 views | felixstowe_jack |
The total signatures have now reached 372,000. Another 42,000 signed in lat 24 hours. | |
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| The 20MPH punishments on 07:29 - Sep 22 with 1451 views | Gwyn737 |
Not trying to underplay people’s genuine concerns (with which I agree) but here’s another example of why petitions should be treated with caution.
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| The 20MPH punishments on 07:40 - Sep 22 with 1449 views | felixstowe_jack |
| The 20MPH punishments on 07:29 - Sep 22 by Gwyn737 |
Not trying to underplay people’s genuine concerns (with which I agree) but here’s another example of why petitions should be treated with caution.
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Probably because people are trying to avoid accidentally driving into Wales and get hit by the new laws.
The last week has seen an increase in interest in all things Welsh including the Senedd, draconian laws, Drakeford and Welsh finally signalling their disapproval of how he is running Wales. [Post edited 22 Sep 2023 7:49]
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| The 20MPH punishments on 09:13 - Sep 22 with 1430 views | Whiterockin |
| The 20MPH punishments on 07:29 - Sep 22 by Gwyn737 |
Not trying to underplay people’s genuine concerns (with which I agree) but here’s another example of why petitions should be treated with caution.
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Apart from a peak of a 100 at 3.48 am this morning the other peaks are mostly 10-20. TBH with nearly 400,000 signatures on the petition I would have thought there were more, the way some are going on about English tory signatures. Just shows that propaganda doesn't always match facts. |  | | |
| The 20MPH punishments on 10:10 - Sep 22 with 1403 views | builthjack |
I know that FaRTy Davies is thick as dog poo, but shouldn't this have been done 6 - 12 months ago, not after the horse has bolted? |  |
| Swansea Indepenent Poster Of The Year 2021. Dr P / Mart66 / Roathie / Parlay / E20/ Duffle was 2nd, but he is deluded and thinks in his little twisted brain that he won. Poor sod. We let him win this year, as he has cried for a whole year. His 14 usernames, bless his cotton socks.
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| The 20MPH punishments on 11:44 - Sep 22 with 1342 views | Whiterockin |
| The 20MPH punishments on 09:13 - Sep 22 by Whiterockin |
Apart from a peak of a 100 at 3.48 am this morning the other peaks are mostly 10-20. TBH with nearly 400,000 signatures on the petition I would have thought there were more, the way some are going on about English tory signatures. Just shows that propaganda doesn't always match facts. |
After looking into this further. The petition was started on 13th September, there were Welsh postcode search peakes of 59 on September 12th, 100 on September 8th, 95 on September 3rd and so on with peaks of 80 to 100 going back months, so prior to the petition being set up.
Now either the English tories are brighter than we give them credit for and were pre empting the petition or these postcode searches were people looking for property as is often the case.
Old Guto is not the brightest and never has been, but you think he would have done a little research before putting his name to something. | | | |
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| The 20MPH punishments on 21:14 - Sep 22 with 1216 views | builthjack |
| The 20MPH punishments on 21:08 - Sep 22 by lifelong |
You don’t half come out with a load of bilge aye.  |
He should stick to counting shipping containers | |
| Swansea Indepenent Poster Of The Year 2021. Dr P / Mart66 / Roathie / Parlay / E20/ Duffle was 2nd, but he is deluded and thinks in his little twisted brain that he won. Poor sod. We let him win this year, as he has cried for a whole year. His 14 usernames, bless his cotton socks.
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| The 20MPH punishments on 21:16 - Sep 22 with 1215 views | builthjack |
A very interesting programme on the wireless today.
The speed limit when it was 30mph, most drivers would do 35-38mph.
Now it is 20mph they are doing 25-28mph.
Driving home tonight that is about right. | |
| Swansea Indepenent Poster Of The Year 2021. Dr P / Mart66 / Roathie / Parlay / E20/ Duffle was 2nd, but he is deluded and thinks in his little twisted brain that he won. Poor sod. We let him win this year, as he has cried for a whole year. His 14 usernames, bless his cotton socks.
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| The 20MPH punishments on 21:22 - Sep 22 with 1205 views | Whiterockin |
Update. So some say the petition will gain nothing. This is just a start.
The person who started the petition has been offered the chance to end it early, given it has now passed the threshold to be looked at by the Senedd's petitions committee, but has declined that offer, and so it just continues to grow. The petition could remain open until next March. Mark Baker has explained he set the petition up due to his frustration that a huge policy was brought in without proper consultation.
Deputy climate change minister Lee Waters, who has fronted the policy, is now facing a no confidence vote in the Senedd due to the size of the petition, that will take place on Wednesday. | | | |
| The 20MPH punishments on 21:33 - Sep 22 with 1184 views | lifelong |
| The 20MPH punishments on 21:16 - Sep 22 by builthjack |
A very interesting programme on the wireless today.
The speed limit when it was 30mph, most drivers would do 35-38mph.
Now it is 20mph they are doing 25-28mph.
Driving home tonight that is about right. |
Indeed.
I would suggest the only time the majority of drivers stick rigidly to the speed limit is when there are average speed camera’s in the area or they are aware of a static speed camera ahead. |  | | |
| The 20MPH punishments on 21:36 - Sep 22 with 1183 views | Gwyn737 |
| The 20MPH punishments on 21:22 - Sep 22 by Whiterockin |
Update. So some say the petition will gain nothing. This is just a start.
The person who started the petition has been offered the chance to end it early, given it has now passed the threshold to be looked at by the Senedd's petitions committee, but has declined that offer, and so it just continues to grow. The petition could remain open until next March. Mark Baker has explained he set the petition up due to his frustration that a huge policy was brought in without proper consultation.
Deputy climate change minister Lee Waters, who has fronted the policy, is now facing a no confidence vote in the Senedd due to the size of the petition, that will take place on Wednesday. |
I don’t think the vote of no confidence will come to much.
It’s brought by the Tories and they have 16 out of 60 seats.
People may well appeal to their MPs but I’m not sure the strength of feeling on this matter is enough to make labour supporting individuals to vote Tory.
My guess is it’ll settle down, LAs will sort their local restrictions out and life will carry on. | | | |
| The 20MPH punishments on 21:50 - Sep 22 with 1159 views | Whiterockin |
| The 20MPH punishments on 21:36 - Sep 22 by Gwyn737 |
I don’t think the vote of no confidence will come to much.
It’s brought by the Tories and they have 16 out of 60 seats.
People may well appeal to their MPs but I’m not sure the strength of feeling on this matter is enough to make labour supporting individuals to vote Tory.
My guess is it’ll settle down, LAs will sort their local restrictions out and life will carry on. |
I think the Senedd are looking for a sacrificial lamb. You will be amazed at the depth of feeling about this, it won't be enough. | | | |
| The 20MPH punishments on 22:39 - Sep 22 with 1128 views | Scotia |
| The 20MPH punishments on 21:22 - Sep 22 by Whiterockin |
Update. So some say the petition will gain nothing. This is just a start.
The person who started the petition has been offered the chance to end it early, given it has now passed the threshold to be looked at by the Senedd's petitions committee, but has declined that offer, and so it just continues to grow. The petition could remain open until next March. Mark Baker has explained he set the petition up due to his frustration that a huge policy was brought in without proper consultation.
Deputy climate change minister Lee Waters, who has fronted the policy, is now facing a no confidence vote in the Senedd due to the size of the petition, that will take place on Wednesday. |
It sounds like Mark Baker and anyone who believes him is a moron.
Such a huge policy, that was clearly in the manifesto of Labour and Plaid, didn't have proper consultation? How much more of a consultation do you want?
1 in every 3 adults in Wales voted for it. They actually put a cross in the box on a ballot paper of a party that was going to introduce it , after registering to vote in that election, most of those actually went to a polling station to do so.
This is getting pathetic and making the Welsh electorate look stupid. Especially those who are now moaning about something they could have voted against introducing but couldn't be arsed to do so and are whining about it like spoilt children.
We'll be driving at 20 mph until May 2026. That's democracy in Wales. | | | |
| The 20MPH punishments on 22:48 - Sep 22 with 1120 views | BarrySwan |
| The 20MPH punishments on 07:29 - Sep 22 by Gwyn737 |
Not trying to underplay people’s genuine concerns (with which I agree) but here’s another example of why petitions should be treated with caution.
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Of course its all those English people again.
Furious that there are extended 20mph zones in Wales
We should have guessed
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| The 20MPH punishments on 22:53 - Sep 22 with 1116 views | Scotia |
| The 20MPH punishments on 21:36 - Sep 22 by Gwyn737 |
I don’t think the vote of no confidence will come to much.
It’s brought by the Tories and they have 16 out of 60 seats.
People may well appeal to their MPs but I’m not sure the strength of feeling on this matter is enough to make labour supporting individuals to vote Tory.
My guess is it’ll settle down, LAs will sort their local restrictions out and life will carry on. |
It'll settle down by the middle of next month.
Drakeford will depart before the next Senedd election and whoever takes over will promise a "review" of the speed limit as part of their leadership bid, and their supporters will applaud them. That's what will then happen and things will change to something like 20 mph outside schools and playgrounds and 30 mph elsewhere.
It'll all blow over and be forgotten about. But will have wasted millions.
And then most people won't vote in the next Senedd election.
Rinse and repeat. | | | |
| The 20MPH punishments on 07:25 - Sep 23 with 1056 views | felixstowe_jack |
Over 393,000 signatures on the petition now should reach 400,000 today. | |
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| The 20MPH punishments on 07:27 - Sep 23 with 1055 views | felixstowe_jack |
| The 20MPH punishments on 21:08 - Sep 22 by lifelong |
You don’t half come out with a load of bilge aye. |
Bit like the posters on here saying it is not being signed by Welsh people now that is bilge. | |
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| The 20MPH punishments on 07:30 - Sep 23 with 1048 views | felixstowe_jack |
| The 20MPH punishments on 21:14 - Sep 22 by builthjack |
He should stick to counting shipping containers |
You should stop supporting this idiotic law introduced by Drakeford. | |
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| The 20MPH punishments on 08:02 - Sep 23 with 1037 views | Whiterockin |
| The 20MPH punishments on 07:25 - Sep 23 by felixstowe_jack |
Over 393,000 signatures on the petition now should reach 400,000 today. |
Mark Baker has a decision to make. He was asked by the Senedd if he wished to close the petition as it had reached the required 10,000 to have it considered for debate in the Senedd. Today it will reach 4000,000, 40 times the required amount. Does he close the petition today and let the media have a field day with the tagline, " petition closes with over 400, 000 signatures in less than 10 days". Or does he leave it run and hope to achieve more than the 443,047 vote that Labour received at the last Senedd elections and have the media tagline "petition receives more signatures than Labour at the last Senedd elections".
Deputy climate change minister Lee Waters, who has fronted the policy, is now facing a no confidence vote in the Senedd due to the size of the petition, that will take place on Wednesday. A question here is why a climate change minister was fronting the policy, it clearly is of no benefit to climate change. So is Lee Walters to be made a scapegoat and sacrificed to get the Senedd off the hook or will the Senedd close ranks and save him. If they try and brush this petition under the carpet the press Welsh and National will have a field day only adding petrol on the fire. This IMO will then have a knock on effect with a second petition calling for Westminster to discus holding a referendum on ending devolution in Wales. this petition is currently at 22,000 of the 100,000 required after only four days and is running until March.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/643987
For those who have not read the details this is the 20mph petition request.
We want the Welsh Government to rescind and remove the disastrous 20mph law
The new 20mph law is coming into force on the 17th September and it will mark the end of having socialism in power in Wales.
Welsh Government claim to have supporting evidence stating that reducing to 20mph EVERWHERE saves lives! Yet we get flyers merely claiming that it will, and opinions from doctors that see RTCs coming into A&E. This is NOT evidence. The only true evidence is from Belfast and it states it makes NO DIFFERENCE to RTCs!
At least one of the trial villages in Monmouthshire actually reverted their trial because it was causing absolute carnage on the roads! Mark Drakeford has come out claiming it is a success in St Brides Major but every time I go though there NO ONE is driving at 20mph.
The Welsh Government has FAILED to produce ANY convincing evidence to support these claims of safety. This law is being spearheaded by the WG Climate Change department and NOT Health & Safety!!
YOU HAVE NOT LISTENED TO US.
The Welsh Government was put there BY THE PEOPLE OF WALES, We are your boss! We demand that this foolish idea be stopped.
Interesting times ahead. [Post edited 23 Sep 2023 8:16]
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| The 20MPH punishments on 08:09 - Sep 23 with 1026 views | felixstowe_jack |
| The 20MPH punishments on 08:02 - Sep 23 by Whiterockin |
Mark Baker has a decision to make. He was asked by the Senedd if he wished to close the petition as it had reached the required 10,000 to have it considered for debate in the Senedd. Today it will reach 4000,000, 40 times the required amount. Does he close the petition today and let the media have a field day with the tagline, " petition closes with over 400, 000 signatures in less than 10 days". Or does he leave it run and hope to achieve more than the 443,047 vote that Labour received at the last Senedd elections and have the media tagline "petition receives more signatures than Labour at the last Senedd elections".
Deputy climate change minister Lee Waters, who has fronted the policy, is now facing a no confidence vote in the Senedd due to the size of the petition, that will take place on Wednesday. A question here is why a climate change minister was fronting the policy, it clearly is of no benefit to climate change. So is Lee Walters to be made a scapegoat and sacrificed to get the Senedd off the hook or will the Senedd close ranks and save him. If they try and brush this petition under the carpet the press Welsh and National will have a field day only adding petrol on the fire. This IMO will then have a knock on effect with a second petition calling for Westminster to discus holding a referendum on ending devolution in Wales. this petition is currently at 22,000 of the 100,000 required after only four days and is running until March.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/643987
For those who have not read the details this is the 20mph petition request.
We want the Welsh Government to rescind and remove the disastrous 20mph law
The new 20mph law is coming into force on the 17th September and it will mark the end of having socialism in power in Wales.
Welsh Government claim to have supporting evidence stating that reducing to 20mph EVERWHERE saves lives! Yet we get flyers merely claiming that it will, and opinions from doctors that see RTCs coming into A&E. This is NOT evidence. The only true evidence is from Belfast and it states it makes NO DIFFERENCE to RTCs!
At least one of the trial villages in Monmouthshire actually reverted their trial because it was causing absolute carnage on the roads! Mark Drakeford has come out claiming it is a success in St Brides Major but every time I go though there NO ONE is driving at 20mph.
The Welsh Government has FAILED to produce ANY convincing evidence to support these claims of safety. This law is being spearheaded by the WG Climate Change department and NOT Health & Safety!!
YOU HAVE NOT LISTENED TO US.
The Welsh Government was put there BY THE PEOPLE OF WALES, We are your boss! We demand that this foolish idea be stopped.
Interesting times ahead. [Post edited 23 Sep 2023 8:16]
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Brilliant post with the facts for once . | |
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| The 20MPH punishments on 08:40 - Sep 23 with 1012 views | Gwyn737 |
| The 20MPH punishments on 21:50 - Sep 22 by Whiterockin |
I think the Senedd are looking for a sacrificial lamb. You will be amazed at the depth of feeling about this, it won't be enough. |
You could well be right. I’m not living with it so I’m not have the experiences and conversations you lot are.
It does seem from the outside that the implementation has been a bit of a shambles. That’s what makes me think it could well settle down. | | | |
| The 20MPH punishments on 08:44 - Sep 23 with 1011 views | Gwyn737 |
| The 20MPH punishments on 07:25 - Sep 23 by felixstowe_jack |
Over 393,000 signatures on the petition now should reach 400,000 today. |
Labour voters criticising a Labour policy.
A healthy example of democracy.
Thank goodness (most) people are able to see past petty party loyalty and are willing to call things out for the sake of the greater good. | | | |
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