What UK laws would you like changed/introduced, and why?

And that's just the off duty coppers´, no but seriously, I think that is a good idea, and would hope that most people do anyway as a means of ID. I think the arrest aspect is a bit too far though John,(£50 fine maybe) I would think like here, produce it at the local cop shop within 24 hours, or then yer nicked without a good excuse, and the fine to-boot. innit.


Fritz Von Think of the paperwork, and the amendments alone !!!

No JCBs or tractors allowed on the roads during the hours 7:00-9:00am and 4:30-6:30pm.

Cycle helmets to be compulsory.

Matt.

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Originally posted by Matt F:
No JCBs or tractors allowed on the roads during the hours 7:00-9:00am and 4:30-6:30pm.

Cycle helmets to be compulsory.

Matt.

For tractor drivers?



Stephen

Busses only allowed in groups of ten

Persistant car hooters, locked up in a busy London kindergarten for the day (out of the kids view), to teach them ehat real noise aggravation means.

3rd licence lost (automatic life ban - No appeals)

When reapplying for lost licence (An idiot test as they do here, psychological etc) it's not easy either.

Graffitti sprayers forced to pay for and clean up their handywork.

Ban all CSO's :

Inroduce a stronger assault law, that also applies to verbal attacks & threats.

More phone tapping (with Judges (not Magistrates) warrant only)


Compulsory manners training for all Pubic Servants.


Wiltshire to come under Welsh law & language statute.


Oh and so so many more *** the list is endless, innit.



Fritz Von Close all pubs at 21:00 Hrs:

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I think the arrest aspect is a bit too far though John,(£50 fine maybe)

Its a fine and endorsement at the moment, Fritz - ye reckon thats working?

andy c! von if yer legal you won't mind producing em on request from the Fuzz, innit!

A reimplementation of the workhouse, so the rot of the dole-scrounging lazy git teen mother can be stopped.

Shooting for cyclists on the pavement.

Shooting for uninsured drivers.

Serious mode now; legalisation and DIRECT MONITORING of all drugs, with compulsory ID cards for all. If dealers are out, you have nothing to hide, and the government can control and tax the stuff, saving shedloads of cash.

Also - the big ones:
Political Party manifestos are BINDING contracts; if they don't deliver on pledges within 2 years - time for another election.

MPs should be forced, by LAW, to use NHS, public transport, state schooling, etc. This way we might get what we fekking well sign for when we bother to vote.

If the cars towed away (as is here often) you get it back when the fine, etc, etc are paid, if the motor is trashed you pay those charges too. One doesn't see too many real bangers over here, but they are very very strict re.number plates and de-registering etc, and MOT's are woth the paper they're written on most of the time, pülus to take the test & get a licence here costs a fortune in comparison with UK, so I suppose that's an incentive to be good (in theory at least ?) innit.

Fritz Von Cyclist & pedestrainss who cause accidents (either dangerous d or pissed also lose their licenxce if they have one, or get points /endorsments fore any future one thay may want (certain time limits etc etc)


All 'estate agents' should sit National Examination & be licenced properly.

All debt collectors/Aka Mickey Mouse bailliffs must be banned ASAP. Only Court Bailliiffs with
proper warrant (and UNIFORMED) Police Officers present (NOT CSO's) may cross a threshhold and take goods. TV Licence checkers (ETC) should be outlawed for their aggressice intimidating tactics, often used against poor old people, scaring the shit out of them. Andy old bean, I'm sure there are already such bi laws etc, but these plonkers still carry on regardless, they must be made to realise (financially and leagally that firms cannot keep passing the buck to thugs & nutters disguised as helpers of the Law, it's insane), innit.

Airline pilots and senior screw that test negative more than three times in a year for cocaine should be fired.



The British Military should advertise more C4 by Law

No VAT or duty on my favourite wine and hifi (and fuel of course)

Being able to buy a bible on a sunday !!!

"Airline pilots and senior screw that test negative more than three times in a year for cocaine should be fired."

I take it you mean 3 positive tests will equal termination? Otherwise we be flying on Highball Airlines?

regards,

michael

Driving whilst smoking to be banned in cars, I personally think this is more dangerous than using the phone which has now been banned.

The number of times I have almost been hit when someone is flicking ash out of the drivers window!

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Originally posted by mykel:
"Airline pilots and senior screw that test negative more than three times in a year for cocaine should be fired."

I take it you mean 3 positive tests will equal termination? Otherwise we be flying on Highball Airlines?

regards,

michael

No, I got it right the fist time Charlie old son

Door numbers on houses should be compulsory - or on the gate if the property is set back more than 10 metres from the road, or if the number on the door isn't plainly visible from the road.

This won't just help me as a taxi driver to arrive punctually, it will also aid the emergency services.

The two-second-rule should also be law to enable safe distances between vehicles when travelling along motorways.

It could be enforced by SPECS-type cameras, although to prevent malicious entrapment by road users who may decide to suddenly brake or cut in front of a vehicle from another lane, you'd only be prosecuted if you ran a set of four cameras over a distance of 100 metres too close, and the registration numbers between both vehicles travelling within 2 seconds of each other recorded were consistent through all four cameras.

Thus speed limits could then be raised to 90 mph (with a 10% tolerance on top) and collision statistics on motorways would still be dramatically reduced.

Yesterday and today we travelled the length of the M6 (and a bit of the A74(m)) to Scotland, and both me and Tasha strictly observed the 2-second rule throughout (other than when some twunt cut in and filled the space.)

Both in Cumbria and in Dumfries/Galloway there were speed camera signs on probably the emptiest stretches of motorway in the UK.

We wizzed along at 80/85 in lanes 1, 2, and rarely 3 (and by so doing could have been pinged by a camera) and yet we observed car drivers in lane 1 at 56 mph tailgating the vehicle in front.

The tailgater would not have been prosecuted had there been any mobile cameras around, but we would have been.

Which of us was the safer driver...

The tailgater at 56, or us at 85 in free space on a free-flowing motorway under dry conditions with crystal-clear visibility?

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Originally posted by Steve Toy:
Door numbers on houses should be compulsory - or on the gate if the property is set back more than 10 metres from the road, or if the number on the door isn't plainly visible from the road.

Door numbers to be placed on the wall or a post RIGHT on the PAVEMENT so blind gits like me don't walk up to the wrong house and look like a div, when feebly trying to read the house number (from a range no greater than 2 feet as my eyesight really is that bad).

PS - I can see traffic lights, cars and dogs, so feel I'm still fine to ride a bike

Cottage Names should be in 10" letters (minimum) and washed with British Rail Luminous tunnel paint, innit.

Anyone who wishes to make the UK their home should learn to speak ingerlish

"The Death Penalty" for parents that don't secure their kids safely in their cars. The ammount of times I see kids standing up in the back between the front two seats frightens me!

Also the latest mobile phone craze where people are now texting when driving, that's so much safer isn't it????!!!! They should be dragged from their cars and be made to stand in the middle of a busy road blindfolded.

Regards
Clive

The recent announcement that a suspect for the Omagh bombing had been found. I have a problem in understanding that a person (Whose been publically named by the media) will soon be served papers, inmplying that he's not been arrested, nor charged, nor obviously in custody. Now this incident can be described as just about as heinous a crime that can be committed anywhere on earth (even in Wartime) so
what is going on ?

Has this man no human rights whatso'ever ? These 'Laws' of not cahrging, though condemning are evil, Is he Guilty or his he innocent, this is British Law at work here I suppose ?


Fritz Von Free Press is not the same as Free Comdemnation

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Originally posted by Nigel Cavendish:
Anyone who wishes to make the UK their home should learn to speak ingerlish

I quite agree on this one. I've known a lot of people here (many Brit & Yank) even married to Germans, who after scores of years living here & longer, still can hardly speak the lingo. Many continually go to Irish pubs and English speaking this and that, but advocate they are integrtaed into society. I find this very sad, but on the legal point of things hardly supring that Britain, Germany, etc, want some of their language learnt.

Fritz Von I'm talikng taking Nationality here, not Asylum, working holidays tec, etc, or working for UK company's abroad. Even those that speak the lingo (learnt overseas) quite often have no idea about the real daily living in said country, you know it makes sense

Whils't listening to the eminent (retired) and often contraversial Judge Pickles, talking live on a radio show at about 03:00 this moaning, I was taken by one 'main' pouint that he made in respect of sentencing 'Old Lags' repeat offenders in burglary etc. Previously judges could sentence such a person to a longer stretch (being that they can't offend inside) and that prison does work with some people as a very last option, dunnit.

Fritz Von More Judges of quality required me#lud