Dame,
Suella Braverman is probably one of the better Home Secretaries of recent times.
So, as Home Sec she was nervous about going on an online speed awareness course knowing (despite attendees being told not to record other attendees) some clown would do so.
And imagine her having to attend a physical course with all the complex security issues but the added possibility of some idiot deciding to physically abuse the woman.
Braverman knew all this and took sensible steps.
Civil servants are boring people. It's the sort of job only some bore would want. Too frightened to attend the 'real world'.
One can just imagine little huddle of boring nonentities giggling as they decided to leak this non-story.
Pathetic!
Yours but not a Tory
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'Suella Braverman is probably one of the better Home Secretaries of recent times.' Who is this post from? Su-Ellen's mother?
ReplyDelete'Suella Braverman is probably one of the better Home Secretaries of recent times.' Who is this post from? Su-Ellen's mother?
ReplyDeleteapart from her being a Conservative what don't you like about her? Or is just because your tiny mind can only judge her as a Conservative.. Let's be having you?
ReplyDeleteCruella makes Priti Dreadful look rational and reasonable.
ReplyDeleteI completely get why she would request a private course. I attended one at a central London hotel and it is an ordeal in a room with 20 other people sitting in close proximity. The course takes up an morning or an afternoon, it’s not a joke. I was “caught speeding” at 24 mph in what had been a 30mph zone until the Mayor got busy changing our city’s major through roads. £100 fine plus three points on your licence or £90 course and no points is serious. Regardless of my or anyone’s feelings about the Home Secretary, it makes sense to me she ought to have a private course
ReplyDeleteExactly. Those who suggest otherwise are just being bloody minded. Equally, there should have been warnings before issuing penalties. Anyone doing a few mph over the 20mph is probably a 100% law abiding person. All that is happening is that people like 10:03 are alienated. A friendly warning first would have created good not ill will to an already hated mayor
DeleteWhy should she special? It is not beneath her dignity to participate in a course to keep points off her licence.
DeleteTwo points: a) We desperately need migrants, because the average young person cannot buy, or even rent, a home less than a 100 miles from London. Nor can they afford to bring up more than one child; educate them and in turn, help them into a home. So there are not nearly enough young, willing, UK people to clean hospitals; care for the elderly and pick fruit etc. And it's getting worse.
ReplyDeleteb) In her time, the stalwart Princess Anne had a few speeding tickets. Does anyone remember how she dealt with the situation?
In the 1960's/ or in the early seventies, Princes Anne was fined by St Albans' Magistrates' Court for speeding. Pleaded guilty by letter, I think. Her arse was busted just like every other speeding motorist.
Delete"busted her arse"...such vulgarity. Do you really think Princess A would have attended a Speed Awareness Course? Of course, she wouldn't . If you got taken off the road it would not have mattered seeing as she has teams of drivers. A Home Secretary is a high level security risk. You are silly if you are implying she should have wasted a half day on what are pointless profit generating exercises on the part of the AA and others. The Nanny State gone mad.
DeleteThere were no speed awareness courses when Princess Anne appeared before Magistrates. In those days, everyone got their arse busted without any special favours for royalties, Her Majesty's Cabinet Ministers or the lower orders.
DeleteI know people who have been on Speed Awareness Courses to avoid points going on to their licences. They all found it useful. One person told me that they thought differently after it was pointed out, "It is a speed limit not a target."
Suella's speeding, like Princess Anne's speeding, could have injured someone. Why bother with speed limits seems to be your mantra. It is not the "Nanny State gone mad" but responsible citizenship reminding motorists to adhere to the requirements of law.
However, Suella's sin turns on what she requested her civil servants to do on her behalf personally. She may well be busted!
Nothing like a summons to appear before the magistrates for dealing with all classes of speeding motorist - royals, aristocrats, politicians, judges and the working classes all had to appear in court to get well and truly busted for speeding back in the day. No Speed Awareness Courses or Speed Cameras back then; just summonses.
DeleteI remember one bloke telling a provincial magistrates' court that he was "speeding because it was her birthday."
A speed awareness course for people doing for first time a couple of MPH over the limit is a waste of time: a warning letter first would suffice
DeleteThe Metropolitan Police used to issue a warning letter to some speeding motorists in the 1970's. The Police Officer would tell the motorist, "You will be reported for exceeding the speed limit." Some motorists would get a warning letter reminding them to comply with the requirements of law and other would receive a summons. It was entirely arbitrary if the motorist received a summons or a warning letter. Summonses for some like Princess Anne and a warning letter for an arrogant man (I used to know) who had no respect for the law - no one was going to tell him what to do.
Delete"Speeding because it was her birthday" - an expensive ride, methinks.
DeleteShe ought to get on her bike and keep peddling until she reaches the end of a very long pier. She should then peddle a little more to be sure. Suella needs to vamoose for once and for all.
ReplyDeleteOh dear oh dear. What piffle on this blog
ReplyDeleteSays 15:11 a hurt bore of a civil servant!
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