Police road signs to drop ‘accident’ for ‘collision’

[Exminiman]

It's just so the bent twatts can say the accident statistics are down...........

Agree...there is a lot of "re categorising" going on at the moment - the government are absolutely desperate to show some improvements, this is probably the likely headline...."Reported accidents have gone down in last twelve months" ........of course they have because they have now been classified as "collisions"...

Off topic a bit but in same vain... a true story from just before Christmas.

A very good friend of ours is French, she has been travelling between France and UK since Brexit without any issues, despite not filling in the paperwork. She has been resident in UK for over 30 years, works at local school, owns a house, has two grown up children, has NI records going back 30 years....you get the picture.

She was stopped by border force just before Christmas, put into a retention centre, interviewed endlessly and then deported by plane!!!!

She had a stroke a few years ago and so is not on top of her game, they wouldn`t even let her husband see her.

The border force folks to their credit were very nice and said we know this is wrong but we have been told we have to follow the law to the letter.....because the government wants to get the illegal immigration figures down !!

While we all know she should of filled in the paperwork, the government have changed goal posts in a desperate effort to get some positive illegal immigration figures to report.... she has 30 years of NI records.....they and a guess many other "soft targets" will suffer.

[mab01uk]

It's just so the bent twatts can say the accident statistics are down...........

Agree...there is a lot of "re categorising" going on at the moment - the government are absolutely desperate to show some improvements, this is probably the likely headline...."Reported accidents have gone down in last twelve months" ........of course they have because they have now been classified as "collisions"...

A friend of mine who is in the Met Police said they have been briefed to wherever possible, classify any mobile phone crime as 'lost property' case closed, rather than 'stolen by pickpockets/snatched by electric scooter rider' etc, unless the victim has actual video or independent witness evidence of the crime taking place (which few people do) in order to improve the unsolved mobile phone theft annual figures recorded for London, especially in the busy tourist areas and at big events like the Notting Hill Carnival...

[Exminiman]

......it sounds like an epidemic.....not just the chancellor reclassifying government debt as assets

[Exminiman]

It's just so the bent twatts can say the accident statistics are down...........

Agree...there is a lot of "re categorising" going on at the moment - the government are absolutely desperate to show some improvements, this is probably the likely headline...."Reported accidents have gone down in last twelve months" ........of course they have because they have now been classified as "collisions"...

A friend of mine who is in the Met Police said they have been briefed to wherever possible, classify any mobile phone crime as 'lost property' case closed, rather than 'stolen by pickpockets/snatched by electric scooter rider' etc, unless the victim has actual video or independent witness evidence of the crime taking place (which few people do) in order to improve the unsolved mobile phone theft annual figures recorded for London, especially in the busy tourist areas and at big events like the Notting Hill Carnival...

Apparently you get a knight hood for suggesting stuff like this .....you couldn't make it up

[mark h]

Perhaps also replace POLICE for PUPPETS.......

[Exminiman]

Perhaps also replace POLICE for PUPPETS.......

Honestly, I bet they are frustrated as well....

[Smiffy]

Look up the Chiefcuntstable of Humberside Police, was going to get done for sexual harassment.
No can't do that so instead he got retired with a FULL Pension.

As for where your council tax is going have a look how much the Twatts are being paid, it's unbelievable.........

[Pete]

I recently did yet another ..ahem…drivers awareness course cos I got done for speeding again. Always on motorways!! Always from wonky matrix signs either not working or I’ve just been a knob. Anyway the intructor was wishing he’d not brought the subject up when he did because the entire group jumped on him! . A few awkward questions he struggled to answer aswell and was keen to move on from, especially about sudden reductions in matrix speed signs, the lack of signs at the end of a reduced speed zone (which is where loads get done, unfairly so) and reduced speed signs on empty motorways at night to reduce emissions and costing much journey time. It wasn’t his first rodeo by any stretch but possibly one of his roughest!