I got busted the other month in London for doing 23mph in a 20mph area (this was after midnight for God’s sake) so you would be right to think I hate these limits. Almost impossible.
But what I hate even more is the creeps who impose them on us. Take the deceitful Lib-Dem idiots who run Wokingham council. Wokingham is a fabulous market town between Reading and Bracknell in Berkshire.
Last year the Lib-Dims asked its 177,500 residents to give their views on lowering the 30mph limit in two areas to ‘’support a new walking and cycling route’’.
As you might expect, the voters gave the project a big thumbs down. In Woodley, 70 per cent rejected the proposal and in Earley 60per cent said no.
And what did the Lib Dems decide? As you might expect from a party which claims to listen to the locals, they said get-stuffed we are doing it anyway. Sickening.
The council even admitted that there had been ‘’strong objections’’ but will press ahead with changing the road layout next week.
They never had any intention of listening to what the locals said. What is the point of a ‘’consultation’’ is having seen the strength of local opinion, the councillors ignore it?
The reality is, these councillors hate the views of the public. The only time they have any interest in them is when they knock at your door just ahead of an election. Next time these tossers ring the bell, remind them of the way you were ignored.
That’s why we Reform, as a firm policy for the next election, should bring in local referendums as they do all over the United States.
This council denied democracy in the dead of night. I am going to bat for Reform - Kelvin MacKenzie
|The way it works is that first a petition is begun, then an official checks out the people who exist, and then the idea goes on the ballot paper at the same time as the local election. That’s real democracy.
And just as Brexit annoyed the shit out of the establishment, I can see the same happening locally. And what with council taxes going off the scale, voters will want to change. Referendums are the answer.
In the Wokingham case locals would be able to vote down the 20mph limit but round my way they have spent an absolute fortune (probably £2million) creating a library ‘’hub’’ where on any given day you could fire cruise missile where the books are available and not kill anybody.
Should be pulled down and vital homes built instead. If we had a local referendum, that could happen.
It would make local councillors accountable. They simply aren’t now. I actually went to the Elmbridge council meeting a few months back, where I saw the Lib Dem leader stop the only Reform councillor speaking by using a piece of political trickery.
There was no democracy that night, and I suspect this is going on all over the country as we no longer have local papers holding these people to account.
As The Times points out, it’s not only Wokingham which believes it knows better than its residents.
Barnet council in North London decided to proceed with the 20mph limit despite 57 per cent taking part in the public consultation opposing it. The same with the Wirral.
Have you ever tried going any distance at 20mph? It’s a nightmare, even more so in rural communities when you keep thinking why am I being passed by hedgehogs.
I recognise there is a case for 20mph limits. Around schools, for instance and in accident black spot areas.
But these councillors don’t like bending at the knee to voters, so there’s a blanket limit, as they know there is nothing the resident can do about it.
My suggestion is that you contact your local Tory or Reform councillor and suggest the referendum. Not sure about Kemi, but I’m sure Nigel Farage will embrace it. After all, it made his career.
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